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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full details of the job, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification below.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full details of the job, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification below.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in relevant area
- MA (or equivalent) in Music Therapy
- Registration with the HCPC
Desirable
- Clinical Supervision Training
Experience
Essential
- Post qualification experience as an Music Therapist working with the client group that this post is linked to in both individual and group work
- Experience of working with Service Users with challenging needs
- Experience of assessing service users and making recommendations to a Multidisciplinary team
- Experience of providing teaching and training sessions regarding the benefits of music and music therapy to a variety of audiences
- Experience of providing Music Therapy in schools and children's settings
Knowledge
Essential
- High standard of verbal communication skills including the ability to provide concise, clear and relevant feedback to an MDT meeting
- Computer literacy and a high standard of written communication skills including the ability to produce clear reports detailing progress of therapy, selecting relevant information from sessions and presenting this without bias
- Ability to apply specialist skills in individual and group based Music Therapy assessments and interventions
- Ability to work both independently and a part of a MDT team
- Good organisational and time management skills
- A working knowledge of Child Protection Guidelines
Other
Essential
- Active involvement in ongoing professional and team development and a commitment to developing other team members
- Physical skills to facilitate a wide range of activities both on a one-to-one and group basis, including using equipment as required
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in relevant area
- MA (or equivalent) in Music Therapy
- Registration with the HCPC
Desirable
- Clinical Supervision Training
Experience
Essential
- Post qualification experience as an Music Therapist working with the client group that this post is linked to in both individual and group work
- Experience of working with Service Users with challenging needs
- Experience of assessing service users and making recommendations to a Multidisciplinary team
- Experience of providing teaching and training sessions regarding the benefits of music and music therapy to a variety of audiences
- Experience of providing Music Therapy in schools and children's settings
Knowledge
Essential
- High standard of verbal communication skills including the ability to provide concise, clear and relevant feedback to an MDT meeting
- Computer literacy and a high standard of written communication skills including the ability to produce clear reports detailing progress of therapy, selecting relevant information from sessions and presenting this without bias
- Ability to apply specialist skills in individual and group based Music Therapy assessments and interventions
- Ability to work both independently and a part of a MDT team
- Good organisational and time management skills
- A working knowledge of Child Protection Guidelines
Other
Essential
- Active involvement in ongoing professional and team development and a commitment to developing other team members
- Physical skills to facilitate a wide range of activities both on a one-to-one and group basis, including using equipment as required
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
