Art Therapist

Job Title – Art Therapist

Contract – Permanent

Hours - Up to 35 hours per week (we would consider applicants that wish to work 4 days)

Salary - £31,500 per annum

Location – Coram Campus, Bloomsbury, London

About Coram

Coram Parenting and Creative Therapy Service is an exciting and innovative place to work and offers art and music therapy, therapeutic parenting, drama therapy, clinical psychology and family therapy to children in schools, at home and at our dedicated creative therapies building on the Coram Campus. We work with children and young people in schools providing creative therapies to help build reliance, strengthen relational and self-awareness skills and experiences, and to reduce mental health challenges. We also have expertise in adapting this work when working with children with neuro-diversity and children with special educational needs. We are currently hiring for our creative therapy interventions in London schools (Camden and Lambeth) and our therapeutic work with adopted and special guardianship order (SGO) children and families in our Coram centre.

We work within diverse communities and we consciously challenge ourselves and our practice, seeking at all times to develop opportunities for anti-racist practice. We want to reflect the communities we serve and we welcome applications from therapists who come from global majority communities.

About the role

We are seeking an art therapist to carry out work possibly across several of our projects, including creative therapy interventions in schools (Camden or Lambeth) and be able to provide creative therapy in our Coram centre with adopted and SGO children and their families. We also provide multi-disciplinary therapeutic assessments with children and their families with a creative therapist and a clinical psychologist or family therapist. The therapist will be able to work autonomously and manage their own caseload and have experience of working with children and their families. You will receive supervision, the support of working within a multi-disciplinary team and we meet together once a week to have group clinical reflections and team meetings. You will also work closely with other art therapists and creative therapists. The successful candidate will be an enthusiastic art therapist, with experience of working with children and families in schools or with adopted/SGO children and working within different contexts.

To apply for this role, please click on the 'apply now' button below to complete the application.

Closing date: Thursday 6th February at 9am

Interviews: TBC

Coram (entity) is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We actively encourage applicants from Asian, African, Caribbean and other minority ethnic backgrounds to join our teams. Whilst we have a diverse team we recognise we are a predominantly white workforce and are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from diverse communities in order to improve the services to the children and families we help.

We are committed to the safeguarding of children and where appropriate will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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