Art psychotherapist inLondon inLondon PUBLISHED WED 15 JAN 2025

Job Overview

• To provide Arts Psychotherapy including assessment, treatment and evaluation of group and individual work for patients within specialist local community mental health teams for a range of diagnoses.
• Working as an autonomous practitioner, to plan, provide and develop an Art Psychotherapy treatment for inpatients which includes systematic assessment, treatment and evaluation of individual and group Art Psychotherapy work.
• Undertake arts psychotherapy research/audit as per the Trust research strategy for the arts therapies/psychotherapies and participate in research and audit.
• To undertake delegated management responsibilities when needed
• Responsibility for managing your caseload.
• To manage and clinically supervise allocated staff, trainees or honoraries and participate in the Trust’s Arts Psychotherapies research strategy and audit.
  
  

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Main duties of the job

This is dual role, covering both Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit and Community Arts Psychotherapies Service.

• To plan, provide and develop Art Psychotherapy treatment for patients on a psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU) which includes systematic assessment, treatment and evaluation of individual and group Art Psychotherapy work.
• To provide Arts Psychotherapy including assessment, treatment and evaluation of group and individual work for patients within specialist local community mental health teams for patients with a range of diagnoses.
• To manage and clinically supervise allocated staff, trainees or honoraries and participate in the Trust’s Arts Psychotherapies research strategy and audit
• Undertake arts psychotherapy research/audit as per the Trust research strategy for the arts therapies/psychotherapies and participate in research and audit.
• To undertake delegated management responsibilities when needed
• Responsibility for managing your caseload.
  
  

Working for our organisation

CNWL is one of the largest NHS employers in the UK of Arts Psychotherapists, working in a vast range of services and has an increasing trainee placement programme continually broadening the reach of the profession.

In joining CNWL you’ll have access to first class national and international Arts psychotherapy CPD training through our International Centre for Arts Psychotherapy (ICAPT); as well as through our strong links with Brunel University, supporting and developing their international PHD and masters course in Art Psychotherapy training.

CNWL Arts Psychotherapies is linked nationally with research programmes and has strong QI support; and keen to expand the knowledge and evidence base of the Arts Psychotherapies.

We are committed to supporting our staff to achieve their potential whilst also ensuring they are also putting their health and wellbeing as a priority and have a vast range of support networks and benefits to offer all staff working for us.

We also have a thriving Arts in health service, Arts for staff initiatives and staff support projects such as our CARE project, as we want to ensure that our passion and knowledge of the benefits of the arts reaches patients and staff across the board.

We are keen to ensure that we’re meeting all the needs of our of diverse range of patients and especially welcome applications from those local to the populations we serve.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• To provide a specialist Art Psychotherapy inpatient provision of group and individual Arts Psychotherapy sessions for patients over both short and medium term.
• To provide group and/or individual Arts Psychotherapy to patients, planning and reviewing treatment in conjunction with the patient and the community team in the context of their full treatment plan.
• To work in conjunction with the Primary Care Network service, accepting and assessing referrals as necessary and developing an appropriate treatment plan, taking into account risk factors, complexity of presentation, patient need, and service priorities.
• To assess each patient’s suitability for individual or group Arts psychotherapy and to ascertain from the ongoing review process a patient’s emotional stability, use of the therapy and ability to work with others towards the agreed aims of treatment.
• To use analytic judgement and sound interpretative insight for the assessment of clients for their suitability for individual or group Art Psychotherapy where there may be highly complex situations or facts as presented by the client/team.
• To offer specialist treatment for those who would benefit from psychological therapy but find primarily verbal psychotherapy difficult to access (e.g. thought disorder, cognitive difficulties, emotional withdrawal, language problems, etc.)
• To assess risk and adopt appropriate measures to maintain a safe and therapeutically sensitive environment for all when faced with challenging behaviour, for example verbal abuse, deliberate self-harm, violence, aggression or threatening behaviour. To contribute to the overall team risk assessment.
• To ascertain from the ongoing review process a patient’s emotional stability, use of therapy and ability to work with others in a constructive way, taking into account risk factors, complexity of presentation, patient’s need and service priorities.
• As an experienced clinician to be adept at working intensively and flexibly to sustain involvement with those who are at high risk of disengaging from treatment.
• To develop a high level of specialist clinical skill relevant to complex emotional needs in the local community services
• To maintain a high degree of professionalism at all times and to maintain proper boundaries particularly as the clinical work will frequently involve working alone with individuals for substantial periods in emotionally intense therapy sessions.
• To deliver Arts Psychotherapy for patients using evidence-based approaches
• To adapt your clinical practice to suit particular challenges of the environment without comprising therap