Creative Arts Therapist

JR United Kingdom; Dawlish; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Creative Arts Therapist to join their Integrated Therapy team. In this rewarding role, you'll design and deliver innovative therapeutic sessions that empower learners through creative expression. Collaborating with educators and therapists, you'll foster an inclusive environment that supports the emotional and developmental needs of neurodiverse individuals. This position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact while benefiting from professional development and a supportive workplace culture. If you're passionate about creative therapies and want to contribute to meaningful change, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Annual Leave

Pension Scheme

Learning & Development Opportunities

Employee Discounts

Wellbeing Support

Cycle2Work Scheme

Enhanced DBS Coverage

Medicash Scheme after 12 months

Qualifications

• Recognised qualification in Art/Music/Drama Therapy with HCPC Registration.
• Experience working as a Creative Arts Therapist.

Responsibilities

• Deliver therapeutic sessions using art, music, and drama for neurodiverse learners.
• Train and mentor education colleagues on best practices.

Skills

Creative Arts Therapy

Neurodiverse Affirming Approach

Trauma-Informed Care

Training and Mentoring

IT Skills (Microsoft Office)

Education

Post Graduate Qualification in Art/Music/Drama Therapy

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Teams

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Job Title: CreativeArts Therapist (Art/Music/Drama)

Job Location: Oakwood Specialist College, Dawlish, EX7 0DE

Salary: Between £47,014.50 and £53,001.00, based on working 37.5 hours per week, 42 weeks per year

Contract Type: Permanent - Term Time Only – Full Time or Part Time

As a Creative Arts Therapist, what does a typical week look like for you? With us, your day would begin with a collaborative morning briefing, an opportunity to share updates and hear about the powerful, person-centred work happening across our Integrated Therapy team.

You’ll play an active role in delivering training to our teaching teams, introducing creative approaches that enrich the learning environment and open new pathways for learner engagement. You’ll share insights drawn from your therapeutic work and lead reflective practice sessions with team members, helping them better understand and support learners’ emotional and developmental needs.

Your creativity and expertise will shine as you design therapeutic sessions that go beyond words, using visual art, movement, music, drama, or storytelling to help our learners process and express their emotions in constructive, empowering ways. Whether you’re guiding a group in collaborative artmaking or supporting an individual through music or roleplay, your work will offer meaningful outlets for expression, especially for neurodiverse pupils or those who have experienced trauma.

You'll manage a small caseload, offering both 1:1 and group sessions tailored to each young adults needs. And because we care about your growth too, you’ll have protected time to develop your clinical and mentoring skills, supported by regular clinical supervision.

A day in the life of a Creative Arts Therapist will involve:

• Taking a Neurodiverse affirming and trauma-informed approach to clinical work you’ll work with a small caseload of learners with neurodiverse needs. You can do this through 1:1 support, classroom work and group sessions.
• Assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating individual and group psychological or creative arts therapy sessions.
• Working alongside Speech and Language Therapists and other Creative Art Therapists.
• Training and mentoring your education colleagues on best practice and effective ways to support the pupils within the school. You may do this by designing classroom strategies, running reflective practice sessions, or delivering training directly to teachers and learning support assistants or teaching assistants.
• Administration. Whilst doing all your great work with the pupils, we’ll need you to keep their records up to date and carry out all the administrative tasks you’d expect to come with this role.
• Attending monthly Psychological Services team meetings and quarterly Integrated Therapies Team meetings.

To be a successful Creative Arts Therapist, you’ll need:

• A recognised Post Graduate qualification in Art Therapy/Music Therapy or Drama Therapy along with HCPC Registration.
• Great experience working as a Creative Arts Therapist.
• The desire and confidence to run supervisions and offer training and support to other Psychological Therapists.
• Good IT skills – We’ll train you on how to use our systems, but it would help if you had a working understanding of using Microsoft packages like Excel, Word, Outlook and Teams.
• A full driving licence. Whilst this role is based in a single location, travel to other sites will be required at times including travel to our Tiverton Hub for team meetings and training where required.

If you have experience working within the NHS, the best way for us to describe the level of experience needed for this role would be to consider it a “Band 7” position.

In return for your time, you’ll get:

• Holidays – You’ll work 42 weeks of the year during term time, but you’ll be paid annual leave to cover the remaining 5.6 weeks. (If you are part-time, you’ll get a Pro Rata amount based on your hours).
• Pension scheme– Our pension scheme is based on you paying in 5%, and us adding 3%.
• Learning & Development Opportunities – We provide comprehensive learning opportunities for team members to develop themselves.
• Discounts – You’ll have access to brilliant discounts through the Blue Light Card and our own employee benefits platform.
• Wellbeing Support – Your wellbeing is always our priority. You’ll have access to mental health and wellbeing support. On top of this, our therapies team offers a monthly confidential check in clinic, and group reflective practice sessions.
• Cycle2Work -The cycle to work scheme enables you to buy a bicycle at a discounted rate.
• DBS – As this role required you to have an enhanced DBS carried out, we will cover this cost.
• After 12 months service - You’ll also be eligible for our Medicash scheme which covers a wide range of medical, health and wellbeing expenses (Including immediate access to a GP!). You’ll get life assurance paid at x2 your annual salary.

Please note that as part of our safer recruitment processes, successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check, and online and social media checks, and reference validation.

At Phoenix Learning and Care, we pride ourselves on our diverse workforce, and ensuring we have an inclusive environment for all our team members. We remain committed to ensuring our teams can bring their true selves to work without risk or fear of discrimination.