Music Therapist Based at Pennystone Court, Blackpool

**Music Therapist based at Pennystone Court, Blackpool**

**Available Hours**:
Permanent - Hours available - Part time - 7.5

**£42,265 per annum**

Are you passionate about helping people? Are you warm and compassionate? Are you looking to join a company who cares for their staff? If so, we want to hear from you

**Why join?**

MHA is the largest care charity in the UK: and a leading provider of award-winning music therapy in dementia care across the UK. In 2008 we started with just one music therapist and now we employ 30 highly skilled music therapists to work across 67 of our care homes offering dementia care. Our music therapy service was featured in the BBC TV programme Our Dementia Choir and was consulted on for the delicate storyline of dementia on the ITV programme Emmerdale.

Our service aims to enhance quality of life and help personalise care in care homes. Over the years, we have continued to engage in research for the benefit of residents and have ongoing collaboration with the universities in the UK and EU.

In addition to a highly competitive salary, we offer a lot more:

- 28 days holiday (including bank holidays) and an option to buy annual leave.
- Life assurance.
- A discount scheme which includes savings with retail stores and online purchases.
- Access to a number of nationally recognised training courses and qualifications.
- Genuine career progression and development opportunities.
- Employee assistance programme including free counselling and legal advice.
- Access to chaplaincy and pastoral support.
- Access to wellbeing resources.
- Recommend a friend scheme.
- Family friendly policies.
- Long service awards.
- DBS check.
- Healthcare scheme at competitive rates.

**About the role**

As a Music Therapist at MHA, you will be required to establish and develop specialist and high quality music therapy services across MHA schemes, offering individual and group therapy as appropriate for service users. Meeting the emotional and psychological needs of residents, in a way that promotes self-esteem, ego integrity, and freedom of choice, supporting a better quality of life and provide a music therapy service aligned to the Values of MHA derived from a concern for individual and mutual respect between service users and staff. Every day will be different, and you will have the opportunity to use your people skills to make a real difference.

**About the home**

**Pennystone Court care home in Blackpool**

When you first visit Pennystone Court, it isn’t the sights and sounds of the seaside that will stay with you, despite the short stroll to the seafront. It’s probably not the design of the home either. Lovely though it is.

Instead, it’s the spirit of positivity and warmth that permeates our home, with a mantra to ‘make great things happen’, no matter what it takes.

It’s this positive outlook that has created a home filled with uplifting stories, energising people, and amazing achievements. It’s the reason you can feel such a strong sense of togetherness. Because when there’s an idea or opportunity to make later life better for residents. It happens.

For more information about the home, please click **_here_**

**About you**

As a qualified Music Therapist, registered with the Health Care Professions Council, full BAMT membership would be desirable, you will provide both individual and group music therapy to the residents in our care which is funded by charitable donations. The ability to work flexibly as part of the multidisciplinary team in care homes is essential.
Strong empathic communication and presentation skills are a requisite to be successful in your role.

You will be interacting directly with our care home residents through live music therapy sessions; this can be through singing, playing simple percussion instruments, or responding to musical cues, as well as the exchange of verbal, facial, vocal, and bodily expressions in a session. You will also collaborate with care teams, sharing insights and knowledge of residents changing needs, and helping to create positive ways of reducing stress and improving overall quality of life.

Ideally you will have experience of working in a care/nursing home setting in any capacity and have a kind, warm and caring nature and be able to work well as part of a team but also use your own initiative.