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An exciting job opportunity has arisen for a highly-motivated, innovative Arts Psychotherapists(Art Music or Dramatherapists).It matters that you will have developed a strong compassionate alliance with adults with a learning disability, challenging behaviour and/or mental health difficulties and want to work as part of a team.

You will be well supported professionally, working closely with Specialist Learning Disability community and inpatient staff, liaising with carers, adult care services, residential and day care providers providing brief and longer term individual and group assessment and treatment programs to meet the complex needs of a wide and varied client group.

You will contribute towards good team life; working closely with your team members, committed to providing in person compassionate holistic care.

We are a values based trust and welcome and support staff to progress evidence-based practise, and aim for great outcomes with clients. We believe in the value of good team relationships and will strongly support your personal and professional development through supervision, training and CPD.

• Provide autonomously agreed clinical assessment and treatment programmes to service users with complex learning disabilities, challenging behaviour and mental health issues including those with psychoses and those with personality disorders, individually or in group setting and work closely with carers.
• Provide comprehensive clinical records and reports of all patient related work, attending to risk assessments, evaluation reports, that shows a process of clinical decision making in own field(art-form) contributing to clinical audits and outcome measuring
• Participate in service innovation as delegated by the Professional Lead Arts therapist

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…”

We are a values based trust and welcome and support staff to progress evidence-based practise, and aim for great outcomes with clients. We believe in the value of good team relationships and will strongly support your personal and professional development through supervision, training and CPD.

• As a specialist clinician, the post holder provides and evaluates individual and group assessment and treatment services for adults referred with complex learning disabilities, various mental health problems including personality disorders, challenging behaviour and /or autism. To clinically manage an agreed caseload paying high regard for patient safety quality standards and risk.
• To participate with members of the MDT, adult social care services, day and residential providers on own caseload and field of work(specific art form). To show good skills in communicating with all professional groups,service users and their carers.
• As specialist clinician the post holder works on specific field of work/art form, contributing to deliver integrated holistic assessment and treatment careplans through a supportive intervention.
• As a specialist clinician they are required to evidence their clinical decision making through verbal and written reports and evaluations, outcome measuring and knowledge of evidence based interventions within their specific art form/field.
• To analyse and clarify factors of risk within their specific intervention e.g. self-harm, level of functioning, capacity to engage in therapeutic work, considering unmet needs and capacities to undertake the treatment mode.
• To provide specialist assessment and treatment of service users in own specific field/art form
• Contribute to clinical discussions with own field of knowledge. When agreed by Professional Lead working alongside other Arts Psychotherapies(Art Drama or Music), Psychology or other Psychotherapy to determine which service will meet their therapeutic needs.
• To use clinical opinion/ interpretive skills in own specific field/art form to understand complex behaviours and psychological function within a reflective supervised clinical process.
• To plan, monitor and deliver specialised programmes of care for the treatment of an agreed case load of service users experiencing complex learning disabilities and enduring mental illness.
• To provide Arts (Art Drama or Music) psychotherapy interventions, group or individual as appropriate following evidence based practice with standardised or agreed outcome measures as an essential part of this.
• To work to agreed activity standards including type , range and duration of intervention