Arts Psychotherapist
ASAP Start
Fully Remote Role
£44,000 - £49,000
Permanent (Employed directly by the school)
Forever Education is supporting a unique independent Special Educational Needs (SEN) group based in London, which provides therapeutic education for children and young people with special educational and neurodiverse learning needs. The school is seeking a passionate, dynamic, and experienced Arts Psychotherapist to join its specialist online school service. You will have an Art or Music specialism. You will deliver with pupils (aged 7-19) across the UK who are unable to access mainstream education.
You will provide a specialised contribution (art or music) to the clinical assessment and psychotherapeutic treatment, as part of our multi-disciplinary therapy team and wider therapeutic offer to our pupils. Additionally, our therapists hold a caseload of children with significant trauma and adverse childhood experience who require a more specific, bespoke, and at times intensive, input. To ensure a consistent therapeutic practice across the provision, you will work closely with the teaching and inclusion teams to meet the needs of the young people they work with and support them to engage in learning, providing advice on moderating the learning environment, as well as scaffolding a therapeutic understanding & culture through training, workshops and general promotion of therapeutic practice to all staff.
The purpose of this role is to provide occupational assessments and interventions remotely to children and young people who access their learning hours through our online provision. The Arts Therapist, as part of the online therapy team, will support staff to deliver a therapeutic environment for all pupils. Additionally, the role will hold a caseload of children with significant trauma and adverse childhood experiences who require a more specific and bespoke input.
The Arts Therapist will work closely with the online teaching team to meet the needs of the young people they work with and support them to engage in learning. The Arts Therapist provides a specialised contribution to the clinical assessment and psychotherapeutic treatment, as part of a wider therapeutic offer to our pupils. They also advise on moderating the learning environment to support young people in reaching their full potential, creating a therapeutic environment by building a therapeutic understanding & culture through training, workshops and general promotion of therapeutic practice to all staff.
Does this sound like the Arts Psychotherapist role for you? If so, please read on below to find out further information!
JOB DESCRIPTION
* Liaise closely with key colleagues, the multi-disciplinary clinical team and managers to provide an intensive online treatment service for a caseload of children enrolled within TCES National Online School.
* Work with all pupils who have Arts Therapy assessment and intervention identified as a need on their Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) and to ensure that this is delivered effectively and in a timely way.
* Engage pupils of the Online School, many of whom have difficulties engaging in learning, in innovative, helpful, therapeutic and meaningful activities that will support them in engaging in learning and reaching their full potential.
* Undertake highly specialised Arts Therapy assessment by identifying appropriate assessment tools that will support us to identify and understand the needs of the children and young people.
* Engage pupils in innovative, helpful, therapeutic, and meaningful activity that will support them in engaging in learning and reaching their full potential.
* To assess and manage the complex needs of the children and young people to support them in feeling safe and in engaging in group learning.
* To provide a bespoke menu of strategies that can be used with individual young people to help to reduce their anxiety.
* To provide specialised reports on Arts therapy provision for individual pupils outlining their attendance, engagement, expression and communication.
* Encourage and support clients in creative artwork, involving the expressive use of movement and objects, using techniques such as improvisation, storytelling, play, role-play, myth, ritual, script work, and if appropriate, devising and presenting performances.
* Encourage self-awareness, exploration and reflection on feelings and relationships. Work with parents/carers, education, health, social care and other multi-disciplinary colleagues as appropriate to assess, design and develop evidence-based intervention and management plans to be implemented within the multi-disciplinary teams and within the child’s family/home setting.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
* A champion of therapeutic support and advocate for young people, with similar values to ours: Expect the very best from each other; Develop a strong work ethic; Respect and appreciate all difference; Include everyone and exclude no one; Listen to and involve everyone; Never give up on each other!
* Resilient and robust, role modelling outstanding professionalism.
* Hold HCPC registration with a recognised Creative Arts Psychotherapy (Art / Music) degree qualification and further professional development accreditations.
* Substantial demonstrable experience in successfully working with vulnerable young people, those with complex mental health needs and/or those with challenging behaviours.
* The ability to plan and coordinate sessions online, proficient with communication and supporting sensory progress for pupils through universal and intensive therapeutic offers.
* Proficient digital skills, including a good understanding of IT systems and the ability to use them effectively as a member of an online school.
* Creative and innovative, whilst maintaining principles of clinical governance.
* Organised with attention to detail.
If you are interested in this Arts Psychotherapist opportunity, interviews can be arranged immediately
Apply for this Arts Psychotherapist by sending your CV to Katie at Forever Education You will be contacted by your personal consultant (if shortlisted)
Forever Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all candidates to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check