Job Summary

Qualified and registered Art, Dance Movement, Drama or Music Therapist, 0.4wte

We are opening a new 8 bedded intensive rehabilitation ward - this is a new service aimed at bridging the gap for those people who fall between acute and mental health rehabilitation services. The service will be aimed at ensuring that people’s mental health is optimised and that the care in the community is available to support them following discharge.

You will have the opportunity of working with a new team to develop what is a new service that will be the first of this type in the Trust. It is aimed at easing the flow of patients between acute mental health and the community as well as the flow between acute mental health and rehab services. We envisage people staying for a maximum of 12 weeks. . As such it will be an outward looking service and you will have the opportunity to work with and gain a greater understanding of other part of the mental health system.

We are planning to open the ward in early January 2023. It doesn’t matter if you have spent a few or many years working in mental health services we would be happy to consider your application.

The post holder work load will include assessment and treatment of people with complex mental health needs who are experiencing a hospital admission.

Individual and group work should draw on evidence based approaches.

The post holder will be required to plan, provide and develop an art, dance movement, drama or music therapy service for the new triage ward. The post will be fully integrated into the wider multidisciplinary team and there is the expectation to develop strong links with other adult mental health services where patients are referred to.

The art therapy service will include systematic assessment, treatment and evaluation of group work, using arts therapy. The post holder will be also required to manage and clinically supervise allocated staff, specifically arts therapy trainees, and regularly undertake arts psychotherapies research/audit as part of the Trust Arts Therapies research strategy.

CNWL Mental Health Rehabilitation Service

• We are the largest provider of NHS in-patient mental health rehabilitation beds in the country;
• We provide a service for people who have complex needs as a result of a severe and enduring mental illness which is psychotic in nature;
• We provide a core service across Brent, Harrow, Hillington, Kensington & Chelsea as well as Westminster;
• In addition, we provide cost per case beds across a number of other boroughs and counties;
• A number of our services are AIMS accredited;
• GIRFT have also recognized the care we provide;

We have a stepped care model, using the principle of least restrictive option, that includes the following:

• High Dependency Units
• Managed Access Units and
• Community Rehabilitation Ward
• We accept people detained under both parts ll & lll of the Mental Health Act.

CNWL has a well-established Arts Therapies network with a large and diverse workforce providing art, dance-movement, drama and music therapies for adults with mental health needs across a variety of inpatient, outpatient and community services. The postholders will be linked to these services and will have access to CPD opportunities and clinical networks. Specialist clinical supervision is provided within the Trust.

• To plan and develop a specialist arts therapy inpatient service with a focus on individual and group
• To offer specialist assessment and treatment for those who would benefit from psychological therapy but find primarily verbal psychotherapy difficult to access (e.g. thought disorder, cognitive difficulties, emotional withdrawal, language problems, )
• To assess referred (self-referred) patients with respect to planning arts psychotherapy treatment including inpatient/community follow-up if appropriate, taking into account risk factors, and complexity of presentation, patient’s need, and service priorities
• To contribute specialist knowledge from your assessment and treatment to the overall care plan for each patient through contribution to clinical meetings via written reports, as well as verbal feedback to the ward
• To refer on to other appropriate services after assessment as required
• To work as an integrated team member of the multidisciplinary team, respecting others’ ways of working and having these others in mind when providing arts psychotherapy.
• To adapt your clinical practice to suit particular challenges of the environment without comprising therapeutic goals.
• To use your clinical skills to contribute to the overall treatment and personal recovery goals for the client beyond arts psychotherapy treatment where necessary and if appropriate and needed by the team, g. facilitation of reflective practice group, joint assessments and so on.
• To assess risk and adopt appropriate measures to maintain a safe and therapeutically sensitive environment for all.
• To maintain a high degree of professionalism at all times and to maintain proper boundaries particularly as the clinical work will frequently involve working alone with individuals for substantial periods in emotionally intense therapy sessions.
• To undertake ongoing evaluations of patient’s progress to manage time limited therapy including therapy endings and follow up.
• To seek out help of seniors or more experienced arts therapists in this field to enhance your clinical practice, possibly from sources within and outside the Trust, and to promulgate this knowledge through the arts psychotherapies network within the Trust
• To be responsible for significant clinical input to the Trust’s research strategy for the Arts Psychotherapies Service.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.


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