Specialist Dramatherapist/Music Therapist

NHS Jobs; Radlett; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Jobs is seeking a Specialist Dramatherapist/Music Therapist to provide specialised assessment and design of arts therapies for service users with complex mental health needs. You will work with Psychology and Occupational Therapy to determine the best therapeutic pathway and to plan, monitor and deliver tailored programmes of care.

You will use standardised outcome measures, apply arts psychotherapeutic techniques, tailor interventions to current needs, and participate in clinical

Qualifications

• Experience in arts therapies or related fields.
• Ability to work with psychology and occupational therapy teams.
• Competence in using standardised outcome measures.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialised assessment and determine suitable arts therapies pathway.
• Plan, monitor and deliver tailored programmes of care for service users with complex mental illness.
• Attend supervision and contribute to audits and policy development.

Job description

Specialist Dramatherapist/Music Therapist

To provide specialised assessment of service users referred for the range of therapies jointly with Psychology and Occupational Therapy to determine which service will meet their therapeutic needs. To make decisions and recommendations regarding the treatment of service user with complex mental illnesses through investigative assessment processes and to use interpretive skills to understand complex behaviours and psychological function. To plan, monitor and deliver specialised programmes of care for the treatment of service users experiencing acute and severe mental illness. To provide arts therapies interventions, group or individual as appropriate, through sensitive and expert application of arts psychotherapeutic techniques to service users assessed as able to engage in therapeutic work. Standardised outcome measures and evidence based practice interpretation is part of this. To use skills to continually tailor and adapt interventions to the needs of the service users at any one time with the safety and wellbeing of the service users in mind. To work to agreed activity standards including duration of intervention. To contain at time highly emotive and distressing clinical material (i.e. sexual abuse and other trauma). To enable the service user tomanage the material at times when it may not be helpful to explore it at that time. To use specialist skills and experience to judge this. To make referrals to/recommendations for arts or psychological therapy in the community or rehabilitation services where the service user would find this helpful, and support a smooth transition. To protect and respect the confidentiality of all service users at all times in-line with information governance. To attend clinical supervision on a regular basis for reflection of clinical practice and professional development. To attend managerial and professional supervision. To lead delegated tasks concerned with the development and implementation of local protocols and procedures to support delivery of arts therapies including operational issues. To carry out an annual audit of referrals to arts therapies and other audit and evaluation as required. To use recognised outcome measures appropriate to the setting and feedback forms to evaluate/audit the effectiveness of therapy for service users. To be responsible for the development and implementation of local arts therapies policies and procedures within the unit, in liaison with the lead. Interpret policies in areas of specialism for the staff team and facilitate their implementation. To actively engage in individual performance reviews and undertake training as identified.