Music Therapist
About the role
Job summary
Join our dedicated Arts Therapies team within West London Forensic Services and make a real difference through creative, recovery-focused interventions.
Working with service users with complex mental health, personality disorder, and offending-related needs, you will deliver music therapy within a supportive multidisciplinary environment. You'll benefit from regular supervision, peer support, weekly Arts Therapies meetings, and opportunities to collaborate with a wider network of Arts Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Psychotherapists, and Psychologists.
This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated Music Therapist seeking professional development within a specialist forensic mental health service.
Monday is an essential working day.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an enthusiastic and compassionate Music Therapist to join our established Arts Therapies team within West London Forensic Services.
As one of two Music Therapists in the service, you will deliver both individual and group music therapy interventions to male and female service users within our inpatient forensic settings. Supported by highly specialist Arts Therapists, you will undertake assessments, contribute to multidisciplinary care planning, and provide consultation to colleagues across both inpatient and community forensic services.
This is a varied and rewarding role, offering the opportunity to work creatively with individuals who present with complex mental health and forensic needs. You will play a key part in supporting recovery, tailoring interventions to meet the unique needs of service users and helping them achieve meaningful therapeutic outcomes.
Working closely with a range of multidisciplinary professionals, you will contribute to electronic patient records, service development activities, and the ongoing delivery of high-quality, evidence-based care. There will also be opportunities to become involved in research, audit, and service evaluation, supporting innovation and continuous improvement within the service.
If you are passionate about using music therapy to make a positive impact and are keen to develop your skills within a supportive and specialist forensic mental health setting, we would love to hear from you.
About us
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK. It provides a broad range of forensic mental health care in adult male and female services, across high, medium and low security settings, as well as in a community and court diversion setting. West London Forensic Service has been rated as outstanding by the CQC.
The Arts therapies team sits within the psychological therapies department, which comprises a team of over 30 psychologists and psychological therapists. It is well-established and supportive with high standards of clinical supervision and excellent opportunities for continuing professional development. The Arts therapies team is well regarded by the service - and is also involved in delivering reflective practice and away days to the staff teams.
We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.
Job responsibilities
The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.