# B7 Art Therapist - 2 days

**Company**: Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Chertsey
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: £51,657 to £58,785 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are excited to offer an opportunity for a part-time, 2 days, Band 7 Art(s) Therapist to join our dynamic and highly valued Adult Arts Therapies Team. Work days can be agreed at the interview.

Based at Unither House, this role covers the North West Surrey and North East Hampshire localities. The successful candidate will receive referrals from the Neighbourhood Mental Health Services and will be expected to work flexibly across the Trust in response to service needs.

We are particularly interested in applicants with experience of working with adults presenting with severe, enduring, and complex mental health difficulties.

The successful candidate will be a qualified Art(s) Psychotherapist with substantial experience working within mental health services. You will demonstrate expertise in assessment, formulation, and therapeutic intervention, and have experience delivering both individual and group therapy to people with complex psychological and emotional needs.

You will be able to work autonomously while contributing effectively within multidisciplinary teams, supporting the delivery of high-quality, recovery-focused care. Additional specialist training relevant to this client group is highly desirable, including: Mentalization-Based Therapy (MBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Structured Clinical Management (SCM), Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR).

**Main duties of the job**

- Provide expert leadership and clinical oversight for a specialist art therapy service, ensuring high standards of care, clinical governance, service development, and contribution to the strategic growth of Arts Therapies.

- Deliver highly specialised art therapy assessment and interventions for people with learning disabilities, working collaboratively with individuals, families, carers, and multidisciplinary teams to promote psychological wellbeing, choice, independence, and positive outcomes.

- Support quality improvement, professional development, and education through staff supervision, training delivery, research, clinical audit, policy development, safeguarding, and the implementation of national and local service priorities.

**Benefits**

- Competitive salary: £51,657 to £58,785 a year Incl. 5% HCAS, pa, pro rata

- Part-time, permanent contract

- Opportunities for professional development and growth

- Flexible working arrangements

- Free parking

- Excellent health and wellbeing support

**About us**

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of mental health, learning disability, neurodevelopmental and drug and alcohol services in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We support people of all ages and are passionate about providing high quality care that is delivered at the right time as close to home as possible to help people recover and stay well.

## Skills

### Required
- Art Therapy
- Mental Health
- Psychotherapy
- Assessment
- Formulation
- Therapeutic Intervention

### Nice to have
- Mentalization-Based Therapy (MBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Structured Clinical Management (SCM)
- Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)

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