Band 7 Music Therapist

Job summary

Are you ready for an exciting and varied career change?

If so, SCYPS is looking for you! We are looking for an experienced children's music therapist to join our exciting, allied health professionals' workforce. This is our first music therapy post in SCYPS which is being piloted to expand the range, choice and access our children and their families have to developmental support.

You will be part of a vibrant expanding SCYPS workforce that is committed to close collaborative working across AHPs including, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, nursing, medical paediatric colleagues.

We need a skilled music therapist to provide assessment and group sessions that will promote development aims for our service users and their families. We also want to enhance further how music making is developed across a wide range of areas including joint working with other professionals, its use in supporting our staff wellbeing and in fostering more our culture of the development of our service through co-production with our service users.

You will join a Trust with an amazing track record of arts therapies development, research and support. ELFT have over 75 arts therapists contributing into all of our care pathways.

If you have excellent interpersonal skills, awareness and sensitivity to the needs of clients from a range of ethnic and linguistic backgrounds and are willing and able to work flexibly, we would like to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

This post will provide a specialist individual and group based music therapy assessment and treatment within SCYPS to young people and their families alongside generic SCYPS MDT practice.

This is a community-based post, based in the West Ham Lane Child Development Centre, near Stratford in London Borough of Newham, offering flexible, evidence-based episodes of care, assessments and treatments to a wide variety of clinical presentations.

The post holder will directly contribute to the positive working environment within the multi-disciplinary team. The post-holder will assist in innovative developments in managing wait times, group work and collaborative work with other children's AHPs.

The post holder will require a high degree of professional autonomy and self-management, and will be required to account for their professional practice through appraisal and audit. They will supervise and support trainee staff and take a lead role in service development and training provision.

About us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to children, young people their families and carers by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive.

Employer details

Employer name

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

West Ham Lane Child Development Centre

84, West Ham Lane

London

E15 4PT

Employer's website

https://www.elft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

West Ham Lane Child Development Centre

84, West Ham Lane

London

E15 4PT

Employer's website

https://www.elft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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