Music Therapist | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 09 Ebrill 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £37,338 - £44,962 pro rata per annum |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 09 Mai 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Cambridge, CB21 5EF |
| Cwmni: | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7059293/310-ASMH-7059293 |
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12 Month Fixed Term
This post offers an exciting opportunity for an ambitious, highly enthusiastic and motivated Music Therapist who can place Service Users needs at the centre of their clinical work and who is interested in delivering a high standard of clinical Music Therapy sessions both with groups and individually across acute inpatient Children’s, Adults and Older People’s Wards in the Fulbourn locality at CPFT.
This post will be supported by grant funding via CPFTs Head to Toe Charity. The post holder will deliver group and individual Music Therapy sessions, sometimes using voice as their primary instrument along with piano.
The Music Therapist will be managed and clinically supervised by the supportive CPFT Arts Therapies team who all have a wealth of knowledge to share. The Arts Therapists innovatively promote recovery and resilience and take referrals for Service Users where a clear clinical need for nonverbal therapy is identified.
The Music Therapist will work across the wards and in the Arts Therapies, Service fully equipped purpose-built Music Room within the Resource Centre Fulbourn Hospital where the service is based. The Arts Therapies Service works closely with Multi-Disciplinary Teams on every ward where they deliver sessions.
This is an exciting opportunity to provide excellent Music Therapy work supporting Service Users of all ages, and to liaise effectively with a range of professionals and staff across Acute Mental Health Services.
• To manage a specialist case load, providing assessment, diagnoses, treatment and monitoring of individuals identified needs across the Arts Therapies Service.
• To participate in multi-disciplinary/ multi agency working within the Arts Therapies. and with key partners.
• To participate in audit, service evaluation and research activities when required
• To participate in the delivery of Music Therapy under the guidance of specialist band 7 Arts Therapist and the Lead Arts Therapist by managing a caseload of clients.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
• To maintain professional standards in accordance with the relevant professional body BAMT and the professional regulator (Health and Care Professions Council)
• To participate in audit, service evaluation and research activities when required
• To participate in the delivery of Music Therapy under the guidance of specialist band 7 Arts Therapist and the Lead Arts Therapist by managing a caseload of clients.
• The post holder will demonstrate specialist knowledge and skills and have undertaken appropriate post registration training.
• To be proficient in the assessment, identification, treatment and management of the emotional and psychological needs of the population requiring prolonged, in-depth concentration. This includes risk assessment, assessment of complex conditions.
• To participate in the delivery of Music Therapy under the guidance of a specialist band 7 Arts Therapist and the Lead Arts Therapist by managing a caseload of clients.
• To frequently communicate and receive highly complex sensitive information with people; who have experienced trauma/abuse /highly complex needs; their relatives/carers and other professionals.
• To have the specialist knowledge / skill to apply psychodynamic formulations and theory to work with individuals, groups and organizations
This advert closes on Wednesday 23 Apr 2025