Art Therapist

Role Overview & Responsibilities

Due to recent investment into Mental Health services, We are launching a number of new developments across both our core CAMHS and our specialist CAMHS provision.

We are thrilled that the development of our core CAMHS provision means that we can offer a new opportunity for an Art Therapist to join our CAMHS Team to support the needs of our children and young people.

If you have a passion for working with children, young people and their families we would love to hear from you.

The Art Therapist is a member of the multi-disciplinary team responsible for accepting, prioritising and assessing referrals to the Service and offering specific psychotherapeutic interventions in the form of art therapy across the geographical area of CAMHS. This involves individual, group and family work and often entails the role of case holder.

The post holder is a resource for the whole team in relation to creative therapeutic interventions/approaches and including working with young people who can be difficult to engage.

In addition to clients assessed as requiring art therapy, the post holder also undertakes generic initial assessment for the CAMHS and participates in shared CAMHS rotas (duty calls, on call urgent assessment, dealing with referrals).

Supervision and support will be available from a senior clinician of an appropriate discipline within the CAMHS team or wider Children’s and Specialist Directorate as appropriate

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is an award-winning organisation with over 9000 employees. We are one of the largest integrated Health and Social Care providers, covering services across North & South Staffordshire, Shropshire, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire, Isle of Wight, and Essex.

We pride ourselves on the services provided to support with the well-being of all our employees both physically and mentally and offer counselling support and lifestyle information. Opportunities for flexible working are also available depending on the role.

We encourage career development provided by in house training programs and coaching support.As part of our strong commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion, we welcome applications from candidates who meet the specific criteria, regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, physical and/or mental disability or offending background.

We are embedding values based and inclusive recruitment practices to ensure that all applicants, from any backgrounds, have an equal chance of success in achieving a role with us.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information about the role.