Candidates will need to demonstrate expertise in addressing complex emotional needs and adapting therapeutic approaches to meet the diverse requirements of patients, including those facing barriers in verbal communication. The role emphasises maintaining a safe therapeutic environment, integrating input from the treatment team, and contributing to the overall development of the Arts Psychotherapies service within the Trust. The Art Psychotherapist will also engage in student supervision and continue to enhance their clinical practice through ongoing learning and collaboration.
- 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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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.
About us
1.To provide a specialist Art Psychotherapy inpatient provision of group and individual Arts Psychotherapy sessions for patients over both short and medium term.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. To assess each patients suitability for individual or group Arts psychotherapy and to ascertain from the ongoing review process a patients emotional stability, use of the therapy and ability to work with others towards the agreed aims of treatment.
5. 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.
6. 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.)
7. 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.
8. To ascertain from the ongoing review process a patients emotional stability, use of therapy and ability to work with others in a constructive way, taking into account risk factors, complexity of presentation, patients need and service priorities.
9. 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.
10. To develop a high level of specialist clinical skill relevant to complex emotional needs in the local community services
11. 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.
12. To deliver Arts Psychotherapy for patients using evidence-based approaches
13. To adapt your clinical practice to suit particular challenges of the environment without comprising therapeutic goals.
14. To enable the image-making activity to act as a vehicle of expression for patients who may not be able to successfully communicate in any other way.
15. To use sound judgement and interpretative skills to work with the client to understand the content and context of their communication and to respond to the arts process and patient interaction as a means of developing self-awareness and greater understanding of self in relation to other.
16. To work and think responsibly and constructively with the relevant teams and any carers involved, drawing on clinical experience and theoretical knowledge to highlight and not collude with potentially destructive mechanisms of defence.
17. To contribute specialist knowledge from your assessment and treatment to the overall treatment and care plan for each patient through contribution to clinical meetings
18. To work as an integrated team member of the multidisciplinary team, respecting others ways of working and having these others in mind when providing Art Psychotherapy.
19. To seek out help of seniors or more experienced arts therapists in this field to enhance your clinical practice, possibly from sources within and outside the Trust, and to promulgate this knowledge through the arts psychotherapies network within the Trust.
20. To contribute to the development of the Arts Psychotherapies service within the Trust by facilitating placements for Arts Psychotherapy students, offering opportunities for observation, independent work and providing line management and clinical supervision.
21. To contribute to the Trusts research strategy for the Arts Psychotherapies.
22. To manage time limited therapy with due consideration to the ending in the context of the overall treatment programme.
23. To refer on to other appropriate services after assessment or on discharge
24. To offer supervision to other team members to assist in processing the emotional impact of clinical work with people with serious mental illness through applying skills and knowledge from training and own personal psychotherapy.
25. To work constructively and flexibly with people from different cultural, social and religious backgrounds, being particularly alert to special vulnerabilities e.g. refugee status, war-related trauma etc.
26. To integrate students into appropriate clinical situations whilst giving a level of support to ensure the safety of and benefit to both students and patients.
27. To write reports and contribute to the writing of reports as required by the community Arts Psychotherapy service.
28. To do all of the above autonomously, referring when necessary to clinical supervision.
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