About this role
Job summary
This is an opportunity for an Arts Psychotherapist to join the Arts Psychotherapy Team within the Complex Psychological Interventions (CPI) service in Bristol. You will be based at The Speedwell Centre, offering assessments, psychological formulations, and individual and group arts psychotherapy for service users in the central Bristol area, using a recovery-focused approach and contributing to care conversations.
As part of the CPI Team alongside Arts Psychotherapists, Clinical Psychologists, Psychotherapists, and Psychological Therapists you will also provide individual and group supervision to staff in the Support and Recovery Team and to colleagues across the wider Arts Psychotherapy service.
The role involves close liaison with the Support and Recovery Team, Crisis Team, and local GPs, offering consultation and bringing psychological thinking to multidisciplinary forums.
You will receive strong support and supervision from senior CPI clinicians and have opportunities for peer learning, case discussions, and professional development. The CPI Team maintains links with local universities, offering opportunities for teaching, mentoring, and involvement in research. Ongoing internal and external training is encouraged to support your continued professional growth.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for someone who is a qualified Art Psychotherapist with HCPC registration.
We are looking for someone with the following skills:
Excellent communication and engagement skills, who can work autonomously whilst enjoying being an integrated member of the arts psychotherapy and CPI Team. Someone with a particular interest in working in a community setting, bringing energy to work psychologically within this part of our service. Someone able to plan and implement individual and group art psychotherapy and input into service users integrated care programmes. Someone that is able to offer supervision and consultation to other Art Psychotherapists and staff within multidisciplinary teams.
About us
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust):a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Job description Job responsibilities
To be a valued member of the Central CPI Team, Arts Psychotherapy CPI Team and working with recovery clinical teams. Also working as an autonomous clinical practitioner, planning and providing an Arts Psychotherapy service within own area of practice in line with AWP strategies. Inputting into the development of new strategies when needed. To providing highly specialist Arts Psychotherapy treatment and ongoing evaluation. To offer clinical supervision and consultation. To support and engage in research and audits for service development.
Skills and Qualities:
Compassion and empathy for service users with complex mental health difficulties.
Great communication and understanding on multidisciplinary working.
Ability to advocate for psychological approaches and art psychotherapy within a team.
Skills in continual development and application of treatment approaches within the profession of arts psychotherapy.
Excellent skills in psychological assessment, formulation and intervention.
Interest in working with diversity and difference.
Person Specification
Essential: Qualifications Essential
MA qualification Art or Arts Psychotherapist. (2) HCPC or UKCP Registration (or eligibility for registration)
Desirable
Further post qualified training
Experience Essential
Knowledge and experience of working with a wide range of individuals with serious and complex mental health difficulties. Experience of working in a Multidisciplinary Adult Mental Health Team In depth knowledge and experience of individual and group arts psychotherapy interventions with service user group Experience of offering clinical supervision and/ or facilitating reflective practice sessions for multidisciplinary staff Experience of working in the NHS Experience in safeguarding, risk assessment, and responding to crises.
Desirable
Participating in audit or research within mental-health services
Skills Essential
Ability to carry our assessment and consultation to inform and enable comprehensive information gathering for clients presenting with complex mental health difficulties. Ability to be responsible for planning organising and managing of placements for trainees. Effective team player with good communication and liaison skills Empathy/engagement skills with the client group Ability to work in an emotional demanding atmosphere and workload pressure/prioritise workload Ability to work autonomously and be responsible for own caseload Well organised with good administration/ computer skills
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 Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Address Speedwell Centre
Whitefield Road, Speedwell
Bristol
BS5 7TJ
United Kingdom
Employer's website http://www.awp.nhs.uk/about-us/working-for-us/ (Opens in a new tab)