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* This substantive post is available part-time for 15 hours per week.
* Applications are invited from appropriately accredited (HCPC, UKCP), qualified and experienced Arts Psychotherapists for a permanent community Arts Psychotherapy post based with the West Wiltshire Community Mental Health Team.
* You will be joining a supportive and experienced team of Arts Psychotherapists, an Art Therapy Assistant, Psychologists, CBT Therapists, and Assistant Psychologists working across Wiltshire, embedded within the Wiltshire Psychological Therapies Service. We bring additional experience in CAT, CFT, MBT, DBT, CBT and EMDR. The team offers a range of group and individual creative psychological treatments across the Wiltshire Community Health Teams, the Inpatient Service at Green Lane Hospital, Devizes and Fountain Way, Salisbury. We are a creative team who work hard to actively support psychologically informed environments, and offer reflective practice groups and clinical supervision for staff.
* This substantive post is available part-time for 15 hours per week.
* Applications are invited from appropriately accredited (HCPC, UKCP), qualified and experienced Arts Psychotherapists for a permanent community Arts Psychotherapy post based with the West Wiltshire Community Mental Health Team.
* You will be joining a supportive and experienced team of Arts Psychotherapists, an Art Therapy Assistant, Psychologists, CBT Therapists, and Assistant Psychologists working across Wiltshire, embedded within the Wiltshire Psychological Therapies Service. We bring additional experience in CAT, CFT, MBT, DBT, CBT and EMDR. The team offers a range of group and individual creative psychological treatments across the Wiltshire Community Health Teams, the Inpatient Service at Green Lane Hospital, Devizes and Fountain Way, Salisbury. We are a creative team who work hard to actively support psychologically informed environments, and offer reflective practice groups and clinical supervision for staff.
We would welcome applications from arts psychotherapists with appropriate accreditation. The successful applicant will be a resourceful, confident and flexible therapist with clearly demonstrable skills and knowledge in working with people throughout the adult age range. You will be able to demonstrate knowledge of working with a number of different client groups in secondary mental health settings, and of having been responsible for providing assessments and focused psychological interventions.
You will work as an autonomous clinical practitioner and with clinical teams, planning and providing a psychological therapies service within your own area of practice, providing highly specialist arts psychotherapy treatment and ongoing evaluation.
A broad range of psychological models are used within the team and we would particularly value further training in additional specific therapies such as EMDR, MBT, CFT, or other therapeutic approaches in the treatment of relational trauma. You will have experience in working with complex trauma and severe mental health issues.
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.
AWP is committed to support and create a positive research and evidence-based environment and culture, which can have a beneficial impact on everyone who works for the organisation and the care we provide to those who use our services.
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.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Becky Piggot Job title: Lead arts psychotherapist Email address: becky.piggot@nhs.net
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