The post is located at the Maidstone site, within the medium secure service. The Trevor Gibbens Unit (TGU) comprises 4 medium secure wards, the unit currently provides 55 medium secure and 10 step-down beds.

The post holder will be under intense psychological effort as applicable within these settings. The post will require a high degree of sustained concentration with a high level of emotional strain due to the nature of the work. This is a mostly patient facing clinical role, essential to the effective delivery of this type of work. The role also requires continued, professional and ethical interaction, not only with patients but also members of the MDT, service managers, service leads and other professions across the service and Trust. A high level of excellent record keeping is required and, as such, time is spent inputting data and information onto computer information settings and therefore sustained periods of time is required behind computer screens. The post will also require the setting up of therapeutic spaces and rooms as required in order to support patients in their recovery. At times this may include escorting patients to different rooms as required and appropriate. The Trust has integrated a Hybrid working policy where appropriate. The post is ward-based but some hybrid work may be considered if suitable and appropriate and in accordance with service need, which is to be agreed with line manager and Lead for Psychological Practice for Forensic Services.

Main duties of the job

OVERVIEW

Assess clients with complex and high risk needs for suitability for individual and group Creative Arts therapy. To facilitate a treatment program which is flexible and sensitive to the needs of the client's group and involve clients in 1:1 and Group work, using a variety of Creative Arts materials in a therapeutic and creative way.

Work as part of a multidisciplinary team in planning, implementing and evaluating treatment, providing assessment and treatment for clients referred to the service and evaluate care.

Provide specialist advice and clinical supervision for other professionals, colleagues or trainees.

Post holder will show proof of commitment to continuing professional development. Key Task and Responsibilities.

Work independently, designing and establishing a specialist Creative Arts Therapy service for clients.

Liaise with other members of the multidisciplinary team around treatment outcomes, referrals and formulation to ensure the service meets client needs while working within professional boundaries and HCPC ethics and code of conduct.

To maintain own patient records, write reports for consultants and other professionals to make recommendations, and feedback on patients' treatment.

To be able to access and disseminate up to date research and information in support of clinical work.

Have excellent written and oral communication skills, maintain electronic records, support data collection and be computer literate in line with trust standards.

About us

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.

Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.

We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Our strategy

Our mission is what we set out to do every dayWe deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

Our vision is where we want to be in the futureTo provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post is a band 7 Creative Arts Therapies vacancy located within forensic medium secure inpatient services in Maidstone. The post is mainly clinical and requires the post holder to exercise responsibility for own practice alongside working with the MDT and other professionals/staff within the organisation. The post holder will be required to effectively manage regular contact with patients who have been in contact with the legal system. The work will entail learning of and listening to content that may be distressing on a regular basis. The post is located at a forensic medium secure inpatient service. There will be a requirement to regularly sit for extended periods completing assessments and writing reports and/or attending meetings both patient related and service related. The post holder will be required to effectively provide clinical psychology services to a range of other agencies. The post holder will be required to develop and maintain the inpatient psychological service with colleagues to ensure it is seen as a center of excellence in its field.

The post holder will be able to work closely, in a sensitive and thoughtful way with disturbing and traumatic emotional material on a continuing daily basis with clients with learning disabilities and mental health issues. The work may involve working therapeutically with people with learning disabilities, challenging behaviours displaying verbal and physical aggression and clients who may be resistant to change.

The Post holder is responsible to the leads of psychological practice for the provision and development of specialised creative arts therapies, within psychological services to patients in medium secure services (The Trevor Gibbens Unit).

Please see the attached Job Description for full details.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• Recognised accredited post graduate qualification in at least one of the Creative Arts Therapies.
• Registration with HCPC.
• Evidence of relevant continuing professional development.

Knowledge and understanding

Essential

• Well-developed skills in ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.

Experience

Essential

• Substantial Creative Arts Therapy Practice
• Experience of offering teaching, training and supervision within a demanding organisational context
• Experience of the application of Creative Arts Therapies in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework

Desirable

• Experience of conducting formal research, audit or service evaluation in a healthcare setting

Skills/abilities

Essential

• Leadership
• Maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems
• A clear and theoretically informed approach to supervision
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly clinically sensitive information
• Proven ability to establish, maintain and conclude therapeutic relationships with clients
• Good inter-personal and inter-professional skills and ability to work autonomously as a single discipline practitioner in a multidisciplinary setting
• Skills in use of complex methods of psychological assessment, formulation and intervention frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• A capacity to reflect upon the therapeutic process and upon one's own part in it
• An ability to make effective use of clinical supervision and to utilise these skills in contributing to clinical consultation within the team and to other professional and non-professional groups
• Ability to work within a large geographical area effectively, managing travel arrangements and using creative working solutions
• Ability to plan and manage work load
• Ability to assist to take a lead in specific service development projects
• Ability to teach others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
• Ability to use electronic clinical record systems

Employer details

Employer name

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Address

Trevor Gibbens Unit, Maidstone

Hermitage Lane

Maidstone

ME16 9PH

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