Art TherapistinEnfieldinEnfieldPUBLISHED MON 17 MAR 2025

Job Summary

We are seeking to recruit a forward thinking and highly motivated Art Therapist to join the Inpatient Therapy team in Enfield Acute Mental Health at Chase Farm Hospital.

The successful candidate will be involved in shaping and monitoring the quality of service provision against set standards. As a key member of the MDT the successful applicant will have clinical autonomy and will often work single-handed in providing individual and group art psychotherapy across 3 adult acute wards and complex rehabilitation ward.

The team provides specialist therapy assessments to patients and offers a needs led, client centred individual and group based activity and therapy programme.

The Post Holder Will

• Be motivated, energetic and a flexible team player with excellent communication skills
• Be able to use initiative and have some responsibilities towards the management of the inpatient treatment programme.
• Demonstrate an interest and participation in evidence -based practice and professional development and working with recovery principles
  
  

Allied Health Professionals are essential and valued across the Trust and we are committed to providing ongoing support, professional development and guidance throughout your time with us. Ably led by our Trust Wide Allied Health Professionals Lead and strong senior AHP leaders, our recently reviewed AHP Strategy reflects our forward thinking, creative and diverse AHP community.

Main duties of the job

• To provide evidence based art therapy provision through weekly individual and group art therapy sessions for patients as inpatient ward programmes within the acute wards. Caseloads are referred through Multidisciplinary team including Medical and Nursing Team, Occupational Therapists, and Dramatherapist.
• To attend and chair team meetings, case studies and professional development meetings to share ideas, developing projects and promote good practice on the wards.
• To keep up to date with administration tasks such as clinical record keeping and mandatory trainings provided by the NOrth London Mental Health Partnership in order to keep up-to-date knowledge of mental health policies and legislations.
• To maintain therapeutic space and materials required for art therapy session as well as storage organisation of patients' artwork as confidential records.
• Undertake Art Therapy/psychotherapy research/audit as per the Trust research strategy for the Arts Therapies/psychotherapies
  
  

About us

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) Is Committed To Improving Mental Health Care Across North London To Deliver Excellent Services To Our Local People.Our Five-Year Strategy

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
• We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
  
  

Why NLFT?

We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.

We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.

NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme

Excellent internal staff network

The Postholder Will Be Aligned With Our Values

We Are Kind

We Are Respectful

We Work Together

We Keep Things Simple

We Empower

We Are Proudly Diverse

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington.

Date posted

11 March 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£42,939 to £50,697 a year Per annum pro rata inclusive of Outer London HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

455-BEH-0006

Job locations

Chase Farm Hospital

The Ridgeway

Enfield

EN2 8JL

Job Description

Job responsibilities

• To work autonomously within professional guidelines for Arts Therapists.
• To have day to day contact with clients who attend Art Therapy sessions for assessment and intervention.
• Following assessment, formulate and identify the most suitable mode of art psychotherapy.
• To conduct individual or group sessions where emotionally highly complex psychotherapeutic relationships are formed and experienced.
• To recognise that service users have a number of levels of need and to exercise professional judgement as to if and when an art psychotherapy intervention can meet some of those needs.
• To participate in staff development training programmes as and when necessary.
• To undertake mandatory in-service training as required by the Trust.
• To keep informed of the most recent developments in Art Therapy practice, as applicable to this patient group.
• To provide written evidence of continuing professional development through submission of annual CPD log sheets.
• To work safely and under guidance in relation to aggression and violence. To maintain breakaway skills for the prevention and management of aggression, as taught by the Trust. Risks of physical violence should be minimised using appropriate planning and taking precautionary measures.
  
  

Job description Job responsibilities

• To work autonomously within professional guidelines for Arts Therapists.
• To have day to day contact with clients who attend Art Therapy sessions for assessment and intervention.
• Following assessment, formulate and identify the most suitable mode of art psychotherapy.
• To conduct individual or group sessions where emotionally highly complex psychotherapeutic relationships are formed and experienced.
• To recognise that service users have a number of levels of need and to exercise professional judgement as to if and when an art psychotherapy intervention can meet some of those needs.
• To particip