Creative Therapist

Description:

Working as part of a multi-skilled, experienced, motivated and creative service, you will be responsible for providing and carrying out arts therapy assessments for young people across the service on an individual or group basis. As an enthusiastic Creative Therapist, this post will provide you with an exciting opportunity to contribute to the development of a comprehensive and high-quality therapeutic service for young people experiencing a range of complex needs.

You will be responsible for developing creative therapy practice, and develop and maintain liaison with external mental health teams, working autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the Leeds and York Partnership Foundation Trust.

The role will involve the use of specialist assessment and intervention skills to provide a creative therapies service to young people. In addition to the delivery of individual and group therapeutic work, the role will involve the promotion of a psychotherapeutically based environment, to suggest the suitability of arts therapy and/or other therapeutic therapies to be part of the on-going care and discharge planning arrangements.