Specialist Dramatherapist
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust · Advanced Nurse Practitioner · viaNHS Jobs
£51657.00 to £58785.00
- Closing date
- 5 Nov 2026
- Posted
- Today
- Specialism
- Advanced Nurse Practitioner
- Sector
- Healthcare
- Reference
- nhs-5680947
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Job summary
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.
The post holder will hold an active caseload offering both individual and/or group dramatherapy. This post is well supported in terms of space, equipment, CPD opportunities, managerial, clinical and professional supervision.
Main duties of the job
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
About us
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.
Details
Date posted
23 October 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£51,657 to £58,785 a year per annum, pro rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAS)
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
11 months
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
367-ACM-101729
Job locations
99 Waverley Road, St. Albans, AL3 5TL, The Marlowes, Hemel Hempstead, HP1 1LD
99 Waverley Road
St. Albans
AL3 5TL
United Kingdom
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a clinician, the post holder provides and evaluates assessment and treatment services with adults referred for complex, severe and enduring mental health problems including personality disorder, complex trauma and psychoses. They ascertain risk, needs and suitability for individual, group, other psychological therapies as a whole and specialist arts therapies, communicating with the whole range of other professionals involved.
As a senior specialist clinician the post holder works jointly with professionals to deliver assessment and care consultation, considering the range of psychological therapies, provides individual and group dramatherapy assessments and treatment, care coordination, and care consultancy in complex cases.
Analyse and clarifies factors or risk e.g. self-harm, level of functioning, capacity to engage in therapeutic work, unmet needs and support systems to determine the patients complex need and capacities to undertake the treatment mode.
To provide specialised assessment of service users referred for the range of psychological therapies jointly with art therapy and psychological therapies to determine which service will meet their therapeutic needs.
To make decisions and recommendations regarding the treatment of service users with complex mental illnesses through investigative assessment processes and to use interpretive skills to understand complex behaviours and psychological function.
To plan, monitor and deliver specialised programmes of care for the treatment of a case load of service users experiencing complex and enduring mental illness.
To provide dramatherapy interventions, group or individual as appropriate through sensitive and expert application of arts psychotherapeutic techniques to service users assessed as able to engage in therapeutic work, whether brief or longer term. Standardised outcome measures and evidence based practice interpretation is part of this.
To work to agreed activity standards including duration of intervention
To be able to contain at time highly emotive and distressing clinical material (i.e. sexual abuse and other trauma). To enable the service user to disclose painful material, in order to progress the course of treatment where appropriate.
To have the highly specialised skills and understanding to help service user in group and individual treatment, either brief or longer term, to disclose, process and resolve conflicts within themselves and with others.
Job responsibilities
As a clinician, the post holder provides and evaluates assessment and treatment services with adults referred for complex, severe and enduring mental health problems including personality disorder, complex trauma and psychoses. They ascertain risk, needs and suitability for individual, group, other psychological therapies as a whole and specialist arts therapies, communicating with the whole range of other professionals involved.
As a senior specialist clinician the post holder works jointly with professionals to deliver assessment and care consultation, considering the range of psychological therapies, provides individual and group dramatherapy assessments and treatment, care coordination, and care consultancy in complex cases.
Analyse and clarifies factors or risk e.g. self-harm, level of functioning, capacity to engage in therapeutic work, unmet needs and support systems to determine the patients complex need and capacities to undertake the treatment mode.
To provide specialised assessment of service users referred for the range of psychological therapies jointly with art therapy and psychological therapies to determine which service will meet their therapeutic needs.
To make decisions and recommendations regarding the treatment of service users with complex mental illnesses through investigative assessment processes and to use interpretive skills to understand complex behaviours and psychological function.
To plan, monitor and deliver specialised programmes of care for the treatment of a case load of service users experiencing complex and enduring mental illness.
To provide dramatherapy interventions, group or individual as appropriate through sensitive and expert application of arts psychotherapeutic techniques to service users assessed as able to engage in therapeutic work, whether brief or longer term. Standardised outcome measures and evidence based practice interpretation is part of this.
To work to agreed activity standards including duration of intervention
To be able to contain at time highly emotive and distressing clinical material (i.e. sexual abuse and other trauma). To enable the service user to disclose painful material, in order to progress the course of treatment where appropriate.
To have the highly specialised skills and understanding to help service user in group and individual treatment, either brief or longer term, to disclose, process and resolve conflicts within themselves and with others.
What you need to do now
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