Arts Psychotherapies Integrated Education - London, United Kingdom - Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Role Summary

Working with an arts psychotherapies team within a large NHS Trust in partnership with Brunel University London, you will be required to deliver context specific training sessions, for example on clinical assessment and organisational dynamics.

You will also be required to provide support for arts therapies trainees and to consider requirements for our future arts therapists in order to maintain a skilled and competent workforce.

To support and coordinate arts therapists to be able to teach effectively, organise placements, and provide regular liaison with Brunel academic staff, ultimately helping to build and develop our workforce, promoting good practices and excellent patient care

This role will be divided between clinical-based teaching performing Face to face and online tuition and teacher support and placement coordination.

We are looking for a Registered Arts Therapists with a passion for teaching and supporting others.

This role will be divided between clinical-based teaching performing face to face and online tuition and support other arts therapies teachers to deliver effective learning experiences as well as coordinating and developing new placements.

You need to be able to be flexible, approachable, and work as a role model to all staff.

CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond.

We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.

Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation.

We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference.

We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare.

We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.

Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.

Key Responsibilities

Education and Training

Multi-Disciplinary Learning Needs Analysis:

you will be expected to work across the CNWL - Brunel partnership to conduct a multi-disciplinary learning needs analysis with CNWL arts and health educators.

You will also be expected to build relationships with service users and service user forums and facilitate their input into the learning needs analysis.

You will be responsible for developing, implementing, evaluating placements in the NHS and third sector.

You will also be responsible for maintaining awareness of regional and national professional education programmes and up to date best practice guidance and disseminating suitable up-to-date reference material to educators and professionals involved in arts and health clinical education

You will develop an evidence based, high quality multi-disciplinary education plan for the staff working in the post-Covid pathway informed by best practice, service user feedback and the learning needs analysis

The plan will include:

Coordinating education and training for the partnership
Coordinating trainee assessments
Identifying gaps in trainee education provision and developing or commissioning education opportunities to fill them
Development and facilitation of wholesystem education and training through webinars, group sessions, for trainees and practice educators
Developing, implementation of placement sites

You will be responsible for:

- liasing with CNWL Arts Psychotherapies Partnership Education programmes to ensure consistency of guidance and messaging across professional educators and our trainees
- curating education material and regularly reviewing this material in line with emerging evidence.

Developing and implementing high standard placements across all sectors
Providing timely assessment support and formative and summative assessments

- ensuring practice educators feel confident and competent to champion health equalities for arts therapies treatment and access, with particular reference to the social inequalities that may result from treatment options offers and to ensure trainees are sufficiently skilled to address these.