CAMHS Creative Therapist inRotherham inRotherham PUBLISHED
TUE 10 DEC 2024
Band 7: £43,742 to £50,056 a year per annum
PERMANENT
HCPC HOLISTIC MENTAL HEALTH MULTI-DISCIPLINARY NHS
Opportunity to make a significant impact on children's and young people's mental health through creative therapeutic practices.
Work within a collaborative and integrated team, enhancing teamwork skills and professional relationships.
Ability to use and develop your own arts therapy modality, fostering personal and professional growth.
Engagement with diverse service users, providing a rich and varied clinical experience.
Involvement in training and supervising junior staff and trainees, contributing to the next generation of therapists.
Regular evaluation of therapy effectiveness gives a structured approach to personal improvement and professional accountability.
Adherence to patient-centred care enhances job satisfaction by prioritizing the needs and goals of service users.
The CAMHS Creative Therapist role at Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHSFT involves providing individualized and group Arts Therapy for children and young people facing complex mental health challenges. As an HCPC registered Allied Health professional, the successful candidate will develop and implement patient-centered therapies while also managing and supervising trainees and junior staff. Collaboration with the multidisciplinary team is essential to ensure comprehensive care, and the therapist will conduct assessments, deliver interventions, and contribute to treatment plans, focusing on improving service user outcomes through effective evaluation practices.
This position requires an individual who upholds the Trust values and adopts a holistic approach to mental health care. Responsibilities include planning and developing therapeutic programs, evaluating their effectiveness, and participating in case meetings to integrate insights from therapy into broader care strategies. The therapist will also play a key role in facilitating reflective practice and joint working within the team to enhance the support provided to service users.
This position requires an individual who upholds the Trust values and adopts a holistic approach to mental health care. Responsibilities include planning and developing therapeutic programs, evaluating their effectiveness, and participating in case meetings to integrate insights from therapy into broader care strategies. The therapist will also play a key role in facilitating reflective practice and joint working within the team to enhance the support provided to service users.
As an HCPC registered Allied Health professional, reporting to the Getting Help Pathway Lead, you will develop and provide Arts Therapy individually and in groups using your own arts therapy modality and line manage and clinically supervise trainees and junior members of staff as appropriate.
As part of the Getting Help pathway you will be working with children and young people with complex mental health needs, you will work as an integrated and collaborative team member upholding the Trust values, and maintaining a holistic approach to promote effective functioning of the team and patient-centred care of service users.
- To plan, provide and develop patient-centred Arts Therapies including assessment, treatment and evaluation of individual and group work using own Arts Therapies modality.
- Evaluate work on an ongoing basis with an emphasis on using appropriate service user reported experience and outcome measures to measure and demonstrate effectiveness.
- Plan and develop Arts Therapies, including individual and group work in liaison the pathway lead and psychological therapy colleagues
- Assess referred service users, plan and deliver Arts Therapies interventions, taking into account risk factors, and complexity of presentation, service user's need, and service priorities.
- Use own clinical skills to contribute to the overall treatment and personal recovery goals for the service user during and beyond Arts Therapies input.
- Where required by the Multi-disciplinary team, facilitate reflective practice, joint assessments and joint working.
- Contribute own knowledge from assessment and treatment to the overall care plan for each service user through contribution to complex case meetings and multi-agency meetings as appropriate.
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1. Can you describe your experience with using Arts Therapy modalities in a clinical setting? Which modalities have you found to be most effective with children and young people?
2. How do you ensure your therapeutic approach is patient-centred? Could you provide an example of a time when you adapted your practice based on a service user's feedback?
3. What strategies do you use to assess the complex mental health needs of children and young people?
4. In your previous roles, how have you evaluated the effectiveness of your therapeutic interventions? What measures have you found most useful?
5. Can you discuss your experience in line managing or supervising trainees and junior staff? How do you support their professional development?
1. Can you describe your experience with using Arts Therapy modalities in a clinical setting? Which modalities have you found to be most effective with children and young people?
2. How do you ensure your therapeutic approach is patient-centred? Could you provide an example of a time when you adapted your practice based on a service user's feedback?
3. What strategies do you use to assess the complex mental health needs of children and young people?
4. In your previous roles, how have you evaluated the effectiveness of your therapeutic interventions? What measures have you found most useful?
5. Can you discuss your experience in line managing or supervising trainees and junior staff? How do you support their professional development?
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