About this role
Job summary
Contract: Full Time / Part Time / Flexible Working options available
12 month fixed term contract (with potential extension)
Transform Lives Through Creativity
We are seeking a compassionate, innovative, and highly skilled Arts Psychotherapist to join our multidisciplinary team within our specialist Low and Medium Secure Mental Health Hospital. This is an exciting new opportunity for Birmingham, offering the chance to shape and grow an emerging service that will make a real difference to the lives of our patients and have a chance to step into a position where your clinical expertise directly influences patient flow, discharge progression and length of stay.
This is a rewarding opportunity to work with adults experiencing complex mental health needs, personality disorders, trauma, and forensic histories within a secure care setting. Through creative therapeutic interventions, you will support patients in exploring emotions, developing coping strategies, improving self-awareness, and progressing on their recovery journey.
As part of a well-established clinical team, you will work collaboratively alongside Psychologists, Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, and other Allied Health Professionals to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities
Deliver specialist arts psychotherapy assessments and interventions to individuals and groups within a secure inpatient environment. Develop, implement, and evaluate treatment plans tailored to individual patient needs. Facilitate a range of creative therapeutic approaches, including art, drama, music, or movement psychotherapy, depending on your professional registration. Contribute to multidisciplinary case discussions, risk assessments, and care planning processes. Maintain accurate clinical records and outcome measures in line with professional and organisational standards. Support patients in addressing trauma, emotional regulation, interpersonal difficulties, and recovery goals. Provide consultation and guidance to colleagues on the therapeutic value of creative interventions. Ensure all practice is delivered within the framework of safeguarding, security, governance, and professional ethics.Essential
HCPC registration as an Arts Psychotherapist. Recognised qualification in Art Psychotherapy, Drama Psychotherapy, Music Therapy, or equivalent. Experience working with adults experiencing complex mental health needs. Ability to facilitate both individual and group therapeutic interventions. Excellent communication, assessment, and report-writing skills. Strong understanding of trauma-informed and recovery-focused practice.
About us
Desirable
Experience within forensic, secure, inpatient, or rehabilitation services. Knowledge of personality disorders, psychosis, trauma, and risk management. Experience working with challenging behaviours and complex presentations. Training in additional therapeutic modalities. Every day, you'll be expected to live our CARE values Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence.
You can achieve more at St Andrews Healthcare
St Andrews is a charity specialising in complex mental health. Its mission is to help people with complex mental health needs transform their lives.
With its history dating back nearly two centuries, St Andrews today is undergoing significant change to deliver on its mission for years to come.
St Andrews has hospitals in Birmingham and Essex, with its base in Northampton. It delivers inpatient and outpatient services, as well as dedicated care services for adults.
About the Birmingham Division
Known for its warm, welcoming and collaborative culture, our Birmingham site provides medium and low secure services for men and women. We work closely with partners across the West Midlands, including the University of Birmingham and Aston University, and we're proud of our strong multidisciplinary ethos.
This is a hospital embracing positive change, innovation and new ways of workinga place where your ideas will be heard and your professional growth actively supported.
Job description Job responsibilities
You'll join a motivated, skilled and supportive Psychology team that celebrates individual strengths and nurtures emerging specialisms. This is a place where you can grow, innovate and shape your career.
Rewards
We offer an excellent benefits package including: Pension; Sickness policy on par with the NHS; Access to the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts schemes; 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing to 33 days plus bank holidays after years' service; Life cover; Electric Car lease scheme; Cycle to work scheme; Healthcare cash plan; Free parking; Paid DBS application; Access to free vocational qualifications.
Every day, you'll be expected to live our CARE values Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence.
Be Part of Something Transformational
If you're ready to join a team that is passionate about improving patient journeys, embracing innovation and delivering high-quality, compassionate care, we'd love to hear from you.
For more information or an informal discussion around the opportunity please contact James Farrelly on [email protected] or 07827856634
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
HCPC registration as an Arts Psychotherapist. Recognised qualification in Art Psychotherapy, Drama Psychotherapy, Music Therapy, or equivalent.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name St Andrew’s Healthcare
Address St. Andrews Healthcare
70 Dogpool Lane
Birmingham
B30 2XR
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.stah.org (Opens in a new tab)