Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Band 7 Arts Psychotherapist - Bristol
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Do you understand the clinical needs of people with a Learning Disability and Autistic People? Do you bring passion and commitment to delivering high quality care?
We are looking for an exceptional Art, Music, Drama or Dance Psychotherapist to join our new specialist acute inpatient service for people with learning disabilities and autistic people.
About the Role
This role will provide a rare and exciting career opportunity to be instrumental in contributing to the implementation and ongoing evaluation of Arts Psychotherapy within a highly specialist inpatient setting. You will be expected to have excellent team working and groupwork skills, and an ability to deliver individual and group interventions within an inpatient environment.
Responsibilities
- Shape and deliver direct assessment, formulation and intervention.
- Contribute to wider service development and pathways, including training, consultation, reflective practice, and staff wellbeing.
- Contribute to service improvement, audit, and research, working with colleagues and linking with relevant partner organisations.
- Deliver high-quality, evidence-based assessment, formulation, and intervention within the inpatient service.
- Provide specialist individual, group, and systemic intervention, as well as consultation, interventions, and training for carers and staff.
- Provide supervision to other members of the team, including trainee Arts Psychotherapists, as appropriate.
- Contribute to service design, audit, and research.
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About Us
We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities, and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire.
We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective, and provide a positive all-round experience for our patients, families, and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect, and empathy.
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Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200 miles, to more than 1.8 million people.
Diversity and Inclusion
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.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Kate Guscott
- Job title: Arts Psychotherapist
- Email address: kate.guscott@nhs.net
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