Dramatherapist

Introduction

Are you a Dramatherapist looking for a new opportunity to work in a supportive and kind environment where you can change lives for the better and continue developing your career? If so, join our team at Thornford Park in Thatcham.

Working 30 hours per week as a Dramatherapist, you will be joining the Department of Psychological Therapies and managing your own caseload, which will involve working with complex service-users. In this role, you will be providing professional advice in finding resolutions to problems/challenges – with the emphasis on improving service-user experience.

Your career at Elysium will be enjoyable and rewarding as you develop specialist skills and make a real difference for some of the most vulnerable people in society.

What you will be doing

• Working as part of a Multi-Disciplinary Team
• Providing both individual and group work to patients across the service
• Providing both long & short-term work, which includes being able to undertake clinical assessments to determine clinical needs & treatment plans
• Maintaining monthly clinical supervision as well as regular line-management supervision
• Providing professional advice in finding resolutions to problems/challenges – with the emphasis on improving service-user experience.
• Both written & verbal contributions to MDT & CPA process
• Offering specialist clinical advice including the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation, and evaluation of programmes of care within the service

You’ll be supported by a team of colleagues ready to lend a hand and work together to a common goal. No two days are the same, with plenty to keep you engaged and motivated, but also a good amount of routine.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Experience working with patients within a forensic service (or similar setting)
• MA in Dramatherapy
• Registration with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Member of British Association of Dramatherapists (BADth)
• At least one year’s post qualification experience
• Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance
• A good knowledge and understanding of the theories and practice of Dramatherapy with people with a diagnosis of mental illnessearning disability who have offended
• Knowledge and application of Dramatherapy assessments and interventions
• Ability to establish therapeutic relationships with complex service-users
• Ability to organise and respond effectively to complex information
• Experience of MDT working and ability to work autonomously

What you will get

With the Elysium Wellbeing team on-hand to keep you feeling great; be it a chat, massage or group activities, and a huge range of career development opportunities to help you grow and succeed, if you have the aspiration, capability and dedication, we can give you the support and opportunities to help you achieve your career goals.

• Annual salary of £28,800 (pro-rata) + Benefits
• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave – plus your birthday off!
• Subsidised meals and free parking
• Wellbeing support and activities
• Career development and training
• Pension contribution
• Life Assurance
• Enhanced Maternity Package
• Flexible working opportunities

There are also a range of other benefits including retail discounts and special offers, car leasing without a credit check and much more.

About your next employer

You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.

Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.

The safety of our service users and colleagues is our priority and as such we encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility and are committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of service users. Candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure.

If you would like any further information about the role, please contact Dr Victoria Inglut, Lead Psychologist via email Victoria.Inglut@elysiumhealthcare.co.uk or on 01635 273880.