Principal Music Therapist
6 months ago
We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, compassionate and motivated Music Therapist for this band 8a, 5 days per week (1 WTE) post.
The role offers the opportunity to work as part of our successful Music Therapy team, and in close collaboration with multi-disciplinary colleagues, including speech and language therapists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and psychological therapists.
The post holder will maintain their own clinical caseload, working with children and young people of all ages, primarily within SEN schools. They will be encouraged to consolidate and develop their skills and clinical interests in a friendly and supportive multi-professional and multi-agency context. The post holder will provide supervision and leadership to other music therapists in the team and lead on aspects of service development.
The post holder will be based at Highpoint House, Shooters Hill and within local schools.
The therapist will hold a caseload of children and young people of all ages with a range of needs and difficulties.
Oxleas works closely with partnership organisations and the post holder will maintain effective relationships with service purchasers to ensure maintenance and development of Service Level Agreements.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
We’re Kind
We’re Fair
We Listen
We Care
Overview of the Post
The therapist holds the responsibility of Lead for Special Educational Needs (SEN) settings with the responsibility for the Music Therapy Service Delivery including:
The operational management and music therapy service development in own sections, with particular emphasis on multi-professional liaison with Community Paediatrics, Speech and Language Therapists, CAMHs team, Children’s Centres and Early Years Providers and collaboration with external agencies including health, education, social services and the voluntary sector
The supervision of the other music therapists providing the service within own section and outside of own section
Monitoring the music therapy needs of all children within own sections and allocating resources and staff accordingly
Providing oversight for Music Therapy Service reports in respect of SEN settings, Outreach Services and Core Caseload.
The therapist holds responsibility for managing own clinical caseload at their own section.
Assessing the clients’ clinical needs
Implementing appropriate, highly specialist intervention either in group or individual music therapy or in highly specialist joint intervention groups.
Establishing clear lines of communication in respect of client care within a variety of multi-professional paediatric teams, with specific responsibility to integrate the music therapy service into special schools, including the development and implementation of rolling training programmes for staff.
The caseload will encompass specialist paediatric areas outside of own section including those with:
Emotional difficulties
Psychological difficulties
Social/behavioural difficulties
Communication difficulties
Relationship difficulties
Interagency collaboration will be maintained with specific responsibility for collaboration with SEN settings.
Written music therapy care plans and reports, reflecting highly specialist clinical knowledge, will be circulated as required.
Please see attached Job description and Person Specification for further details of the role.
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