Band 8a Senior Art Psychotherapist - HMP Foston Hall

NHS; Derby; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health service provider in Derby seeks a Senior Art Psychotherapist to work with complex mental health needs in a prison environment. The successful candidate will support assessment and intervention delivery, produce risk assessments, and contribute to team training. Candidates must have an MA in Art Psychotherapy, HCPC Registration, and experience in adult mental health. This fulltime role offers a salary range of £55,690 to £62,682 per annum.

Qualifications

• Significant post qualifying experience working within adult mental health.
• Openness to the supervisory relationship and professional support systems.

Responsibilities

• Support direct assessment, formulation, and delivery of interventions.
• Produce risk assessments and behavioral management plans.
• Provide psychologically informed advice and support.

Skills

Delivering specialist art psychotherapy assessments

Supervising others

Resilience in emotional impacts

Education

MA Art Psychotherapy

HCPC Registration

Job description

Go back Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Band 8a Senior Art Psychotherapist - HMP Foston Hall

The closing date is 24 September 2025

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (BSMHFT) invite applications from enthusiastic, innovative and resilient professionals to join our expanding Secure Care and Offender Health Services (SCOH) across the Trust, to the role of an Art Psychotherapist.

We are recruiting a permanent position at the CAMEO service, based at HMP Foston Hall, Derby - a personality disorder treatment service based within the prison estate for female service users who have complex needs.

You will be part of the Secure Care and Offender Health Team and trust wide Arts Psychotherapies Service. Across the trust in recent years, the provision of art, music and drama therapies has grown significantly, and we are proud to offer a career structure from entry-level to Consultant Art Psychotherapist. We have a network of arts psychotherapists located in Community Hubs, Secure Care and Offender Health, and Specialist Services. We welcome applications from motivated people interested in working with complex presentations, including personality disorders, who have the skill, knowledge and experience to balance clinical need with risk management. We welcome candidates who are motivated, dynamic and forward thinking.

Main duties of the job

We are a diverse team who thrive on developing new opportunities and offering high quality, personalised and evidence-based interventions to people with complex and persistent mental health difficulties. We are looking to recruit people from a range of diverse backgrounds with an interest in working with, supporting and enhancing the lives of people who have experienced adverse life experiences, including trauma and neglect, and have a history of offending behaviour.

The service has identified resources supporting continuing professional development, including excellent multi-model supervision structures. The post holder will support the direct assessment, formulation and delivery of interventions to address the full range of complex forensic mental health problems. They will also produce risk assessments and behavioural management plans as a Lead Clinician and be key in providing psychologically informed advice and support for those directly involved in the care of the individual. They would also support training, supervision and evaluation of the delivery of individual behavioural management plans, risk management activity and service user involvement. The post holder will have experience in supervising others and be able to identify and co-ordinate the need for systemic support.

About us

Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.

Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.

Job responsibilities

For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Qualification

• MA Art Psychotherapy
• HCPC Registration
• Openness to the supervisory relationship and to team or professional colleague support systems
• Experience of delivering specialist art psychotherapy assessments/ interventions in the field of mental health
• Experience of supervising others

Personal

• Resilience in dealing with sustained emotional impacts, experienced in work settings from a variety of sources.

Experience

• Significant post qualifying experience working within adult mental health

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

£55,690 to £62,682 a yearper annum, pro rata