Highly Specialist Music Therapist

An exciting opportunity to work within a well-established and supported Music Therapy team in Southeast London.

The 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.

Main Duties of the Job

• 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.

The caseload will encompass psycho-social, emotional and psychological specialist areas.

Interagency collaboration will be maintained, and written music therapy reports, reflecting specialist clinical knowledge, will be circulated as required.

Job Responsibilities

• To employ highly developed clinical skills and specialist Music Therapy techniques when establishing therapeutic relationships with referred clients.
• To adapt practice to meet individual clients' 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 service 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.

Person Specification

• Education/Qualifications:

+ Essential: MA or equivalent Postgraduate training in Music Therapy from HCPC validated course. + Desirable: Evidence of continuing professional development.

• Knowledge and Skills:

+ Essential: Good written and verbal communication skills, good analytical and reflection skills, knowledge of and skill in considering differences and equalities both in therapy and professional relationships, knowledge of and skills in assessing clients for Music Therapy with ability to form critical analysis and make judgements. + Desirable: Knowledge of Evidence-Based Practice, Clinical Governance and related knowledge for research and audit.

• Experience:

+ Essential: Specialist clinical experience of working with children and young people (including ASD, SEND, Early Years, Social, emotional and mental health needs), experience of working in a range of settings including health and education, experience of carrying out assessments and report writing. + Desirable: Experience of supervising Music Therapy students on placement.

• Personal:

+ Essential: Ability to work both autonomously and as part of a team, ability to be adaptable and flexible.