Specialist Dramatherapist

We are seeking a skilled and enthusiastic dramatherapist to cover maternity leave 1 day a week in our adult community mental health team in St Albans supporting adults who experience complex mental health difficulties. . You will be working closely with the other dramatherapist and the art therapists in the local team, and will be part of the wider arts therapies team., To work as an autonomous clinical specialist within a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) in St Albans, Hertfordshire, providing dramatherapy assessment and intervention to service users with complex mental health needs, including personality disorder, complex trauma and psychoses To assess, plan, undertake and evaluate dramatherapy as appropriate through group and/or individual sessions, in accordance with service user care plans and contribute to MDT review processes. . The main responsibilities of this post are:

• The assessment, planning, implementing and evaluating of both individual and/or group Dramatherapy sessions for community and where clinically appropriate.
• Management of the waiting list
• The completion of risk assessments and patient records
• Integration and attendance to primary MDT meetings.
• To be available to clinically supervise other dramatherapists and placement manage students as required.
• Lead on service innovation as delegated by the Arts Therapies Leadership Team or line manager
  
  Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality CommissionOur family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.