Band 7 Art Psychotherapist - Bristol

Job summary

This is an opportunity for an Arts Psychotherapist to join the Arts Psychotherapy Team within the Complex Psychological Interventions (CPI) service in Bristol. You will be based at The Speedwell Centre, offering assessments, psychological formulations, and individual and group arts psychotherapy for service users in the central Bristol area, using a recovery-focused approach and contributing to care conversations.

As part of the CPI Team alongside Arts Psychotherapists, Clinical Psychologists, Psychotherapists, and Psychological Therapists you will also provide individual and group supervision to staff in the Support and Recovery Team and to colleagues across the wider Arts Psychotherapy service.

The role involves close liaison with the Support and Recovery Team, Crisis Team, and local GPs, offering consultation and bringing psychological thinking to multidisciplinary forums.

You will receive strong support and supervision from senior CPI clinicians and have opportunities for peer learning, case discussions, and professional development. The CPI Team maintains links with local universities, offering opportunities for teaching, mentoring, and involvement in research. Ongoing internal and external training is encouraged to support your continued professional growth.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for someone who is a qualified Art Psychotherapist with HCPC registration.

We are looking for someone with the following skills:

• Excellent communication and engagement skills, who can work autonomously whilst enjoying being an integrated member of the arts psychotherapy and CPI Team.
• Someone with a particular interest in working in a community setting, bringing energy to work psychologically within this part of our service.
• Someone able to plan and implement individual and group art psychotherapy and input into service users integrated care programmes.
• Someone that is able to offer supervision and consultation to other Art Psychotherapists and staff within multidisciplinary teams.

About us

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust):a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.

We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.

Details

Date posted

28 May 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£49,387 to £56,515 a year pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

342-BR079-0526

Job locations

Speedwell Centre

Whitefield Road, Speedwell

Bristol

BS5 7TJ

United Kingdom