Specialist Arts Therapist - Radlett, United Kingdom - Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Radlett, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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"An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated Dramatherapist/Music Therapist/Art Therapist/Dance Movement Psychotherapist, passionate about mental health, to work in an adult Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit in Hertfordshire. This part time post is based at our modern acute inpatient site in Radlett.

You will provide group and individual arts therapy (modality specific) assessment and treatment to service users experiencing acute episodes of mental ill health.

You will be an integral member of the multidisciplinary team, contributing to multidisciplinary assessment and treatment, participating in team meetings and case discussions.

You will work closely with the psychologist and occupational therapist in considering the therapeutic needs of the service users.

Arts Therapies have been part of the unit's multidisciplinary team for over 10 years, and are highly appreciated by staff and service users.

You will be part of the wider arts therapies team in adult mental health, under the professional leadership of the Arts Therapies Professional Lead.

You will develop relationships with the Arts Therapists working in the other acute units, and the community Arts Therapists to consider the needs of service users after discharge.

Clinical supervision is provided in house.

You will have access to a trust wide internal arts therapies network and CPD programme, offering both skills sharing within the trust and external speakers.

Provide clinical assessment, group and individual interventions for service users who are experiencing acute mental health issues, in an inpatient Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) (male).
Provide expert opinion and assessment as part of the multidisciplinary team
Provide clinical supervision to arts therapists and other staff where required
Lead on service innovation in agreement with manager and professional lead.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match.

We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings.

We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

Then please read on "

Provide assessment, group and individual Arts Therapy interventions (modality specific) for adult males with acute mental health needs

Clinical Responsibility

As a clinician, the post holder provides and evaluates assessment and treatment services with adults referred for acute and severe mental health problems including personality disorder and psychoses.

They ascertain risk, needs and suitability for individual, group, other psychological therapies as a whole and specialist arts therapy, communicating with the whole range of other professionals involved.

As a senior specialist clinician, the post holder works jointly with professionals to deliver assessment and care consultation for the range of psychological therapies, provides individual and group arts therapy assessments and treatment, and care consultancy in complex cases.
Analyse and clarifies factors or risk e.g., selfharm, level of functioning, capacity to engage in therapeutic work, unmet needs, and support systems to determine the patient's complex need and capacities to undertake the treatment mode.
To provide specialised assessment of service users referred for the range of therapies jointly with Psychology and Occupational Therapy to determine which service will meet their therapeutic needs.
To make decisions and recommendations regarding the treatment of service user with complex mental illnesses through investigative assessment processes and to use interpretive skills to understand complex behaviours and psychological function.
To plan, monitor and deliver specialised programmes of care for the trea