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Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

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Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) is one of the largest trusts in the UK, caring for people with a wide range of physical and mental health needs. We have approximately 7,000 staff who provide healthcare to a third of London's population and across wider geographical areas, including Milton Keynes, Kent, Surrey and Hampshire.
As a Foundation Trust we involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run and our future development. If you are interested in becoming a member of our Foundation Trust please visit: www.cnwl.nhs.uk
(source: Central and North West London NHS Foundation NHS Trust website)
Cysylltu
- Address
- 350 Euston Road
- Regent's Place
- London
- London
- NW1 3AX
- Contact Number
- 02032145700
Dance movement psychotherapist
Closed for applications on: 13-Medi-2024 00:01
Statws y swydd wag: Closed
Closed for applications on: 13-Medi-2024 00:01
Manylion allweddol
Lleoliad
- Gwefan
- Roxbourne Complex
- Cyfeiriad
- 39 - 41 Rayner's Lane
- Tref
- LONDON
- Cod post
- HA2 0UE
- Major / Minor Region
- Llundain
Math o gontract a phatrwm gwaith
- Contract
- Parhaol
- Oriau
- Rhan-amser - 7.5 awr yr wythnos
Cyflog
- Cyflog
- £51,883 - £58,544 pro rata per annum inc HCAS
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yn flynyddol
- Gradd
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Arbenigedd
- Prif leoliad
- Adult Mental Health
Trosolwg o'r swydd
We are seeking to recruit a dance movement psychotherapist to work 1 day a week on the inpatient rehabilitation unit at Roxbourne Complex.
This is a permanent role and the dance movement psychotherapist will support the existing art psychotherapy provision which is offered within the unit.
The candidate will be responsible for planning and delivering group arts therapy interventions for adults with complex and enduring mental health needs within the inpatient rehabilitation setting. Regular linking in with the multi-disciplinary team and the wider arts psychotherapies service will be essential. The candidate will be joining a diverse team of arts therapists (music, art, drama and dance-movement) who work across the boroughs of Brent, Harrow and Hillingdon. This means that the staff member will be very well supported with supervision, training and staff support, including team reflective practice.
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Job description: Dance Movement Psychotherapist
Hours: 0.2 WTE (1 day a week), PERMANENT
Base: Roxbourne Complex
Report to: North West London Arts Psychotherapies Rehabilitation Lead.
NWL Arts Psychotherapies Operational and Clinical Lead CNWL.
Accountable to: Head of Arts Psychotherapies, Central and North West NHS Foundation Trust
Job Purpose
To plan, provide and develop a dance movement psychotherapy service for in-patients including systematic assessment, treatment and evaluation of individual and group work using a dance movement psychotherapy approach. There will be an expectation that the clinician will evaluate work on an ongoing basis with an emphasis on using appropriate outcome measures to measure and demonstrate clinical effectiveness.
To manage and clinically supervise allocated staff (trainees) and regularly undertake arts psychotherapies research/audit as part of the Trust Arts Therapies research strategy.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
CNWL is one of the largest NHS employers in the UK of Arts Psychotherapists, working in a vast range of services and has an increasing trainee placement programme continually broadening the reach of the profession.
In joining CNWL you’ll have access to first class national and international Arts psychotherapy CPD training through our International Centre for Arts Psychotherapy (ICAPT); as well as through our strong links with Brunel University, supporting and developing their international PHD and Masters course in Art Psychotherapy training.
CNWL Arts Psychotherapies is linked nationally with research programmes and has strong QI support; and keen to expand the knowledge and evidence base of the Arts Psychotherapies.
We are committed to supporting our staff to achieve their potential, whilst also ensuring they are also putting their health and wellbeing as a priority. We have a vast range of support networks and benefits to offer all staff working for us.
We also have a thriving Arts in health service, Arts for staff initiatives and staff support projects such as our CaRE project, as we want to ensure that our passion and knowledge of the benefits of the arts reaches patients and staff across the board.
We are keen to ensure that we’re meeting all the needs of our diverse patient population and especially welcome applications from those local to the communities we serve and who may have lived experience.
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Please refer to the JD/PS for further information.
- To plan and develop a specialist arts therapy inpatient service for adults with severe and complex mental health problems with a focus on individual and group work.
- To assess referred (self-referred) patients with respect to planning arts therapy treatment including inpatient/outpatient 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 (ward rounds, tribunals) via written
reports, as well as verbal feedback to the ward teams. - To refer on to other appropriate services after assessment or on discharge.
- 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 therapy.
CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.
Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.
We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page
Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.
CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.
Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.
Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13 week probationary period.
If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Gofynion yr ymgeisydd
Manyleb y person
Education and Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- MA in Arts Psychotherapy (dance-movement)
- Eligibility for State Registration with the Health Professions Council (HPC)or UKCP/ ADMP
- Membership of relevant professional body (ADMP)
Meini prawf dymunol
- Other related academic qualifications
- Clinical supervision training
- Training in breakaway/ de-escalation techniques
- Knowledge of and training in Mentalization Based Approaches
- Recruitment and selection
Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Post-qualification experience of autonomous working in a mental health inpatient rehabilitation or acute setting: both in groups and individually.
- Experience of working with people with endure mental health difficulties, disturbed and challenging behaviour and forensic background.
- Experience of supervising arts therapists and of liaising with the university training courses in own speciality and other specialist areas.
- Substantial experience of personal therapy.
- Experience of assessing clients for arts therapy/psychotherapy and making recommendations to a MDT.
Meini prawf dymunol
- Experience of being an arts psychotherapist in a Multi-Disciplinary Team.
- Experience of negotiating space/therapeutic boundaries in a difficult context
- Evidence of participation in research
Skills, knowledge and abilities
Meini prawf hanfodol
- High standard of arts making and commitment to maintaining skills.
- Skills in planning, organising and prioritising own workload and in working autonomously when needed.
- Knowledge of and skills in assessing clients for arts psychotherapy, balancing risk with client needs and service priorities
- Knowledge of evidence-based practice, clinical governance and related knowledge for research and audit.
- Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to relevant field/s and the full range of client groups.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by Arts Therapies/psychotherapies Professional Bodies.
- Skills in applying psychotherapy theories to work with individuals, groups and organisation
- Ability to work with people with complex needs e.g.aggressive/unstable/suicidal patients, including those with personality disorder or a mixed diagnosis.
- Ability to work with non-verbal clients or clients for whom using English is a major difficulty which could be for cultural reasons, or due to their mental state.
- High standard of verbal communication skills including the ability to provide concise, clear and relevant feedback to a ward round/team meeting
- Computer literacy and high standard of written communication skills including the ability to produce clear reports detailing progress of therapy, selecting relevant information from sessions and expressing analytical detail without bias.
- Ability to treat service users with respect and dignity at all times, adopting a culturally sensitive approach, which considers the needs of the whole person
- Ability to build constructive relationships with warmth and empathy, using good communication skills.
Meini prawf dymunol
- Experience of working with multi-disciplinary teams
- Commitment to and enthusiasm for further training opportunities and CPD
Attitudes, aptitudes and personal characteristics
Meini prawf hanfodol
- High degree of self-awareness, further arts psychotherapy training, especially working with psychotic states of mind, and forensic psychotherapy, mentalisation based treatment, and post-qualifying supervision/personal psychotherapy.
- Ability to observe and think of the nature of concrete thinking
- Ability to work with trauma and contain emotional impact through clinical supervision and team support systems
- Ability to assess risk and be able to work face to face with acutely unwell patients without other staff nearby.
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to ‘hold’ the stress of others.
- Ability to adapt to physical environment when dedicated therapy rooms are not available e.g. transporting materials etc and willingness to manipulate furniture to set up room (within Health and Safety parameters).
Meini prawf dymunol
- Ability to learn from experience
- Able to provide services in a variety of environments as meets the needs of clients
Other
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Ability to work to professional guidelines
- Must be capable of working autonomously with traumatised, severely disturbed, aggressive and/or distressed people for prolonged periods individually and in groups.
Meini prawf dymunol
- Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic professional journals and/or books.
- Must demonstrate ability to support the development of the profession through participation in professional bodies and activities.
Rhagor o fanylion / cyswllt ar gyfer ymweliadau anffurfiol
- Enw
- Paula Hedderly
- Teitl y swydd
- Operational and Clinical Lead
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 07810651281
- Gwybodaeth i gefnogi eich cais
Enquiries about the post can be directed to the NWL arts psychotherapies operational lead, but in the event of annual leave, please contact the principal arts therapists shown below:
Mario Eugster, principal music therapist, [email protected]
Jorge Camarena, principal art psychotherapist, [email protected]
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- Address
- Argo House 180 Kilburn Park Road
- London
- NW6 5FA
- Telephone
- 02076852922
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