Music Therapist

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust in Southeast London is seeking a dedicated Music Therapist to deliver services across schools, Children Centres and adult services, including core and CAMHS pathways. You will join a supported team with excellent supervision and CPD opportunities, contributing to clinical management and service delivery within agreed locations.

The role requires adapting therapy to individual needs, working within multi-professional paediatric teams, and maintaining professional

Qualifications

• Experience in paediatric and adult settings preferred.
• Ability to adapt interventions to individual client needs.
• Strong collaboration with multi-professional teams.

Responsibilities

• Assess clients' clinical needs and plan interventions.
• Deliver group or individual music therapy sessions.
• Establish communication with the care team about client care.
• Collect and compile clinical data for evaluation and commissioning.
• Use advanced clinical skills in establishing therapeutic relationships.
• Adapt practice to cultural differences and individual circumstances.
• Maintain high standards of patient care and professionalism.
• Communicate effectively with clients, carers and colleagues.

Skills

Music therapy

Clinical communication

Documentation

Job description

An exciting opportunity to work within a well-established and supported Music Therapy team in Southeast London. This role includes the delivery of Music Therapy services within schools, Children Centres and adult services, as well as the Core provision and the Camhs pathway of the Greenwich Music Therapy Service. We are seeking an enthusiastic and flexible music therapist who would enjoy being part of a dynamic and forward-thinking team. Excellent supervision and CPD provision with opportunities to develop your clinical interests. The Music Therapist will be responsible for the clinical management and service delivery within agreed locations:

• Assessing the clients' clinical needs.
• Implementing appropriate specialist intervention either in group or individual music therapy.
• Establishing clear lines of communication in respect of client care within a variety of multi professional paediatric teams.
• Collecting and compiling clinical data for evaluation and commissioning.
• To employ highly developed clinical skills and specialist Music Therapy techniques when establishing therapeutic relationships with referred clients.
• To adapt practice to meet individual client's circumstances, including due regard for cultural differences.
• To maintain good standards of patient care and personal professionalism to ensure the promotion of an effective therapeutic environment.
• To employ excellent communication skills.
• To form effective relationships with services users who may be under stress and/or have challenges and emotional psychosocial difficulties.
• To demonstrate empathy with clients, carers and families and colleagues, ensuring that effective communication is achieved, particularly where barriers to understanding exist.
• To communicate complex condition related information from assessment to clients, carers, families and members of the multi professional team / other professions.
• To work closely with clients, carers and families, agreeing decision making relevant to the client management.
• To demonstrate skills in motivating clients and/or carers to engage in the therapeutic process.
• To contribute to clinical teams, by discussing own and others input around client's needs thereby ensuring a well-co-ordinated care plan and providing clinical reports which reflect specialist knowledge
• To demonstrate negotiation skills in the management of conflict across a range of situations.
• To ensure the safety and welfare of clients under the therapist's care

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