Lead Community Arts Psychotherapist

Are you passionate about transforming mental health services to meet local needs? Do you have a track record of arts for health, community capacity building and leading co-productions of arts interventions with community partners? Do you want to join a dynamic, experienced and forward-thinking psychological professionals' leadership team in Newham that makes a real difference to people's lives? If so, we want to hear from you.

1. To be responsible for the overall provision of a specialist Arts Therapies assessment and treatment service to adults within Community Integrated Mental Health Service (CIMHS) & Community Recovery Team (CRT) North.

2. To be responsible for all operational aspects of the Arts Therapies Service within the CIMHS/CRT teams

3. To lead in the development of the Arts Therapies service, including proposing and implementing service developments within the area served by the team and in liaison with the Consultant Psychological Lead, Principal Clinical Psychology Lead and Operational Team Leads.
This includes adapted arts therapy provision for service users with neurodiversity, language barriers and issues with accessing traditional arts psychotherapies.

4. To manage and supervise the Arts Therapists and trainee Arts Therapists across CIMHS/CRT

5. To provide specialist Arts Therapies assessment and treatment including adapted approaches for diverse communities using community arts, partnership working with VSCE

6. To evaluate the clinical effectiveness of the Arts Therapies service and to understand and contribute research and quality improvement in relevant specialist fields

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To work with local community arts organisations to develop partnerships and co-produce suitable community based arts interventions including faith based arts psychotherapies.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are:
We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.

• MA (or equivalent) Arts Therapies qualification For Art therapist/Art psychotherapist, Music therapist & Drama therapist:
  Registration with the HCPC For Dance Movement Psychotherapist:
  Membership of ADMP Professional Register For Dance Movement Psychotherapist: UKCP Registered Dance Movement Psychotherapist Membership of own Arts Therapy professional body Training in risk assessment and risk management Clinical Supervision Training Further training in an area of psychological practice relevant to adult secondary care population
• Management training e.g. in appraisal skills, recruitment and retention, Core manager's training Further postgraduate training in an area of clinical expertise in a related field (e.g. Psychosis, neurodiversity, learning disabilities) Further training in evidence based therapeutic approaches integrating with Arts therapies e.g. MBT/IPT/DBT Leadership/management training

• Substantial post-qualification experience of providing highly specialist arts therapeutic assessment and treatment interventions for patients [directorate/borough and service] with complex problems and reflecting a wide range of clinical severity and/or comorbid difficulties such as dual diagnosis, personality disorder or learning disabilities. Experience of leading a staff team including; workload allocation, timetable monitoring and coordination, negotiating new staffing resources, managing departmental budgets and performance targets, organising induction of new staff and students Experience developing a specialist service, and of liaising with a wide range of operational managers across clinical settings Facilitating highly specialist individual and group arts therapy in highly related clinical settings, to include co- working with less experienced staff Experience of liaising with multidisciplinary teams over the provision of clinical interventions Experience of representing arts therapies at management and service development meetings Experience of teaching, training, and/or supervision of others Experience of working in a multi-cultural setting Experience of audit and research processes
• Experience of working in a range of care settings, including outpatient, inpatient and community Experience of working with voluntary and charity organisations Experience of working with interpreters Experience of recruitment and selection

• Leadership and management skills, particularly in developing a specialist service Skills in managing and monitoring budgets and performance data Skills in delivering highly specialist arts therapy assessment, intervention and management in individual and/or group…