Arts Therapist/ Music Therapist

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT); Stevenage; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000

Job description

We are looking for a creative arts psychotherapist (Music Therapist) to work within the Specialist Learning Disability Community Team across East and North Herts. You will have developed a strong and compassionate alliance with adults with a learning disability, additional emotional and mental health difficulties, and their paid and unpaid carers. You will enjoy and value close team-working to enable creative and meaningful opportunities for people who have a learning disability to express their needs.

This is a 5-day permanent post in a well-managed resourceful MDT. You will be part of an arts therapies team and have good opportunities to work alongside other professionals within the service and wider trust.

You will understand how to provide innovative evidenced-based group and individual arts therapies assessment and treatment programs, within various community settings working closely with the MDT adult care services, community nursing, and other providers. You will be a highly motivated communicator, with the team's shared passion for achieving the best outcomes for our service users. You will provide support to other therapists and maintain Trust and local team protocols that measure and record your clinical processes and decision making.

You will receive lots of support to develop your professional knowledge and skills through CPD opportunities. You will have excellent support with a range of ongoing supervisions including operational, professional, and clinical.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health, and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

Our Trust Values Are:

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families, and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence, and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

1. Welcoming
2. Kind
3. Positive
4. Respectful
5. Professional

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like to work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

Then please read on…

For further details / informal visits contact:

Name: Ilona Racz
Job title: Arts Therapies Professional Lead
Email address: [e-mail]
Telephone number: 07717468763

Susan Archer, Community Manager, 01438 792160

Ilona Racz, Professional Lead Arts Therapies, 07717 468 763