We are pleased to offer this exciting innovative opportunity to someone with skills and training in the creative arts and a passion for supporting people with their mental health and wellbeing.

The Arts in Health Recovery Practitioner will provide arts-based groups and 1.1 sessions to support individuals’ mental health recovery. They will support interested individuals to access creative arts-based or other groups in their local community as they transition from EPMHS, for their ongoing wellbeing. To do this, they will build relationships with local community, voluntary and faith-based groups.

The post holder will be a core member of the enhanced primary care mental health multidisciplinary team. As part of the role they will carry out initial assessments for the team. Training will be provided for this.

The post is 3 days a week, based in Ware, covering the East and South East of Hertfordshire, primarily Bishop Stortford and Cheshunt.

The Arts in Health Recovery Practitioner will sit clinically under the arts therapies umbrella and will have access to arts therapies meetings, CPD and will receive clinical supervision from an arts therapist.

EPMHSisamultidisciplinary service providing early intervention and support for people with mild to moderate mental health problems. The team also supports people as they move forward with their life following a period of support with secondary mental health services.

Main duties of the job

To support individuals who experience mental ill health to access arts-based interventions to aid and maintain their wellbeing and recovery. To do this by:

• • Providing group arts-based sessions for service users
  • Supporting individuals to access arts-based sessions in the local community by offering navigation and support to transition from specialist NHS services.
  • Building relationships with local arts-based and other community and voluntary services, to improve access to supportive interventions that can meet the needs of people who experience complex and/or enduring mental health problems. This may involve co-production of interventions with external services, and provision of training.
• To support people who are struggling with being discharged from HPFT and are finding it hard to engage with third sector organisations and the wider community.
• To carry out initial assessments to the Enhanced Primary Care Service, as part of the multidisciplinary team.
• The post holder will become an integral member of the HPFT Primary Mental Health Team, working closely with the Adult Community Mental Health services within HPFT, working in accordance with the recovery agenda, promoting its values and principles and have co-production as a key guiding principle.
• The Recovery Practitioner will need to have both clinical awareness and good knowledge of arts for health and wellbeing, in order to negotiate appropriate service provision to meet needs.