Lead Community Arts Psychotherapist

1. To be responsible for the overall provision of a specialist Arts Therapies assessment and treatment service to adults within Community Integrated Mental Health Service (CIMHS) & Community Recovery Team (CRT) North.

2. To be responsible for all operational aspects of the Arts Therapies Service within the CIMHS/CRT teams

3. To lead in the development of the Arts Therapies service, including proposing and implementing service developments within the area served by the team and in liaison with the Consultant Psychological Lead, Principal Clinical Psychology Lead and Operational Team Leads. This includes adapted arts therapy provision for service users with neurodiversity, language barriers and issues with accessing traditional arts psychotherapies.

4. To manage and supervise the Arts Therapists and trainee Arts Therapists across CIMHS/CRT

5. To provide specialist Arts Therapies assessment and treatment including adapted approaches for diverse communities using community arts, partnership working with VSCE

6. To evaluate the clinical effectiveness of the Arts Therapies service and to understand and contribute research and quality improvement in relevant specialist fields

7. To work with local community arts organisations to develop partnerships and co-produce suitable community based arts interventions including faith based arts psychotherapies.

Are you passionate about transforming mental health services to meet local needs? Do you have a track record of arts for health, community capacity building and leading co-productions of arts interventions with community partners? Do you want to join a dynamic, experienced and forward-thinking psychological professionals' leadership team in Newham that makes a real difference to people's lives? If so, we want to hear from you.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.