Art Therapist

About Northern Beaches Hospital

Northern Beaches Hospital offers world-class, Level 5 delineation services catering to both public and private patients. With 488 beds, a 50-bed Emergency Department, a 20-bed general and cardiothoracic ICU, 14 state-of-the-art theatres including cardiac catheter labs, a world-class education center, doctors' lounge, and excellent staff facilities including a café and car parking, NBH provides an exceptional environment for healthcare professionals to excel.

About Healthscope

When you join Healthscope, you become part of our Community of Care. Our people are at the heart of our organisation – no matter the role, every day our people make a difference to the lives of our patients and their families. We work together to create positive, memorable experiences, alongside our quality care, in every moment of every day.

As the only national private hospital operator and healthcare provider in Australia, our 38 sites are supported by our central office enabling us to provide an exceptional experience for the community we care for.  Our values of “we care, we do, we strive, we’re a team” are in everything we do.

The Role

As an Art Therapist in our Mental Health service, you will play an important role providing enjoyment and therapy to our patients.  Key responsibilities:

·         Provide art therapy services in both individual and group therapy sessions for adults presenting with a range of psychiatric disorders accessing the inpatient and outpatient therapeutic programs of NBH;

·         Utilise various art modalities such as painting, drawing, sculpture, and other creative techniques to help promote recovery.

·         Identification, development, implementation and evaluation of therapeutic programs and ensuring that they are current and congruent with patient needs.

·         Apply ethical principles and decision-making within creative and experiential practices.

·         Facilitate, collaborate, and create a safe space for integrative therapeutic experiences using creative processes.

·         Respect individual choice and agency while providing creative and interactive processes for expression, exploration, self-awareness expansion, processing, and integration of experiences.

·         Responsively address distress and overwhelm, utilising creative and experiential processes to establish safety, facilitate access to personal resources and process experiences.

·         Utilise creative and practical processes to build trusting relationships, sustain rapport, and facilitate engagement.

·         Provide consultancy to other members of the multidisciplinary team and maximise the efficacy of the clinical services through the development of productive and professional relationships with referral sources;

Criteria

·         Relevant tertiary qualification or Diploma of Art Therapy or related qualification, with minimum 2 years’ experience.

·         Full registration with the Governing Body

·           Previous experience in a mental health setting and in the delivery of psychological and counselling services using a Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) approach within the field of art therapy

Employee Benefits

Our OneHealthscope rewards program gives you access to a range of wellness benefits, discounted Healthscope services for you and your family, salary packaging and more as well as discounted onsite parking at Northern Beaches Hospital and access to Fitness Passport

·         Wellness benefits, Employee Assistance Program, free services including medical examination of employees and discounted Healthscope services for permanent employees and immediate family.

·         OneHealthscope rewards program.

·         Variety of leave options, salary packaging, airline/club membership.

To Apply

All applications must be lodged online. Please click the Apply button to lodge an application (applications should include cover letter, CV and 2 current work-related referees).

Closing date: 26 July 2024.

If you are successful in the role, you will receive a salary based on your years of relevant experience against the current Healthscope NSW Health Professionals & Support Services Agreement 2023.