Arts in Health Project worker

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS Trust as a support role within the Arts in Health service, focusing on delivering creative arts projects for mental health service users. This position provides an opportunity to enhance community engagement through arts, reduce social isolation, and promote wellbeing in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Access to CPD training in Arts Psychotherapy

Support networks and wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in arts therapies and community engagement.
• Demonstrated ability to support project planning and delivery.
• Ability to navigate multidisciplinary team dynamics.

Responsibilities

• Support planning and delivery of arts projects.
• Coordinate with multidisciplinary teams and participants.
• Facilitate participant feedback and engagement.

Skills

Creative understanding

Clinical understanding

Education

Relevant Arts Psychotherapy qualification

Job description

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Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

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Other

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Yes

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Posted:

07.07.2025

Expiry Date:

21.08.2025

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Job overview

This is an exciting position within our Arts in Health service working closely with our Arts Psychotherapies service across adult Mental Health services. The job purpose is to support CNWL’s Arts in Health service for adults in/ recently discharged from MH services throughout the trust – Westminster/ Kensington and Chelsea /Brent.

To support service users alongside colleagues/ trainees and honoraries to engage in meaningful creative activities that have been designed to support re-engagement in the community whilst reducing anxiety and social isolation, increase confidence and increase general wellbeing

This includes supporting referral, assessment, planning and delivery of current projects and supporting the implementing and overseeing new projects for service users across CNWL.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will support planning & delivery of the projects within these different settings and provide support for the staff directly involved. The post holder will also bring in their own expertise within their specific field and work to collaborate with the delivery of the CNWL Arts in Health Hub. This will be a creative arts hub for community service users of CNWL, specifically service users who will be stepping down from secondary care. This will give access to arts in forms such as visual art, music, dance and drama. Provide a space for healthy engagement in the world through arts in a supported, thought out and helpful environment.

The post holder will use their creative and clinical understanding to support the delivery of the projects undertaken by CNWL Arts in Health.

The post holder will be supporting the work with various multi-disciplinary teams within the trust as well as corresponding with outside community partner organisations and charities and workshop leaders.

At times the post holder will support the lead, in the delivery of presentations to other staff members within the trust and outside the trust. Promoting the essence of CNWL AiH’swithin the Trust.

The post holder is also required to support & where appropriate participate in the Trust’s arts psychotherapy research strategy and audit. A commitment to establishing links with the wider arts therapies team within the trust expanding the reach of the Arts in Health programmes.

Working for our organisation

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 & Dramatherapy 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Overview of main responsibilities:

1.To support the CNWL Arts in Health lead, to plan and deliver projects & formulating bespoke services, workshops.

2.Support the lead in evaluation methods for CNWL AiH’s projects.

3.Facilitating all aspects of the weekly studio art group including location and venue, participants contacts, materials, planning and gaining feedback.

4.Ensuring that participants’ voices are heard and any new initiatives are in line with service user feedback and meeting the needs of the diverse communities we serve. Aim to include service user co-production in projects delivered by CNWL AiH.

5.Support the lead to coordinate with participants’ MDT navigating risk and duty of care.

6.To contribute to the electronic records of all patient interventions, participant database and support new referrals for CNWL AiH.

7.To support the lead in training and develop volunteers within CNWL AiH and provide a professional working environment for volunteer and honorary project workers to benefit from involvement in the team

8.To support thorough evaluation strategies within each CNWL AiH projects.

9.To contribute to the Trust’s research strategy for the arts psychotherapies and Arts in Health.

10.To be informed on current arts in health practices and maintain connection with wider arts in health bodies such as London Arts in Health Forum and the Culture Health and Wellbeing Alliance.

11.To be responsible for regular review of own service, in order to assess any necessary changes in Arts in Health Practices.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.