Art Therapist

at  Elysium Healthcare

Are you a highly motivated and enthusiastic Art Therapist with experience working in a mental health setting with women with personality disorder, mental illness? You will be key in promoting and developing the mental, emotional, physical and social wellbeing of service users at The Farndon Unit.
As an Art Therapist you will plan, provide and develop a service for service users including systematic assessment, treatment and evaluation of individual and group-based treatment.
Working 15 hours a week you will maintain a high quality in all areas of practice including effective team working, using a range of evidence-based approaches, ensuring adherence to national guidelines, legislation, organisational protocols, procedures, policies, standards and systems. This role is an 18-month fixed term contract position.
At Elysium, we want the best for you. That’s why you will have continuous access to a range of training courses to enable you to reach your career goals. After all, a better you, means better care. That’s what delivering great healthcare should feel like.

• Registration with the HCPC
• Experience (either pre-training, on training, or subsequently) of working with clients with complex needs that are relevant to the population in the service area.
• Experience of managing emotive situations
• The post holder will maintain appropriate registration with the HCPC