Arts Therapist (art, drama and music therapists welcome to apply) Stevenage, England
Job description
A great opportunity has arisen for a creative and experienced arts psychotherapist ( Music or Drama) to work within the Specialist Learning Disability Community Team across North and East Herts. You will have developed a strong and compassionate alliance with adults with a learning disability, additional emotional and mental health difficulties and their paid and unpaid carers. You will enjoy and value close team- working to enable creative and meaningful opportunities for people who have a learning disability to express their needs. You will understand how to provide innovative evidenced-based group and individual arts therapies assessment and treatment programs, within various community settings working closely with the MDT adult care services, community nursing and other providers. You will be a highly motivated communicator, with the team's shared passion for achieving the best outcomes for our service users.
This is a permanent post, in a well-managed resourceful MDT . You will have good opportunities to work alongside other arts therapists within the service and wider trust. You will receive lots of support to develop your professional knowledge and skills through CPD opportunities. We provide internal and external CPD opportunities which have been a contributory factor to our excellent rating by the CQC on our last inspection. You will have excellent support with a range of ongoing supervisions including operational, professional and clinical.
Vaccination as a Condition of Deployment (VCOD) for Healthcare Workers
Candidates offered a role with the Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust , who are aged 18 and over and who will have direct, face to face contact with service users as part of their role will be required to evidence that they have received a complete course of an approved COVID-19 vaccine, subject to limited exceptions, by no later than 1 April 2022. This will include front-line workers, as well as non-clinical workers not directly involved in patient care but who nevertheless may have direct, face to-face contact with patients, such as receptionists, ward clerks, porters and cleaners.
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…
For further details regarding the role and responsibilities please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification documents attached.
