West London NHS Trust
Music Therapist
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Job Title: Music Therapist
Location: Ealing
Overview
We are seeking a highly motivated music therapist to provide group and individual music therapy to service users in the borough of Ealing, comprising both brief and longer interventions. We are looking for a practitioner who is passionate about the role of creativity in supporting people’s health and autonomy and who manages risk in a collaborative way.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide group and individual music therapy to service users
- Work autonomously across trust and community premises
- Build effective and productive relationships with Ealing mental health teams and non-statutory community resources
- Offer interventions within defined timescales, encompassing both brief, low intensity and some longer, high intensity interventions
- Implement trauma informed approaches for a range of presentations
- Support the wider team to work with service users, e.g. through formulation
- Work independently to develop your part of the service in liaison with inpatient and community teams
- Supervise trainees on placement
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Working Conditions
- Managed by a Head of Arts Therapies
- Links to arts therapies across the wider trust
- Tuesdays are a core team day for the arts therapies, so the postholder will be expected to work Tuesdays
- Line managed by the head of arts therapies and supported by a structure of meetings with arts therapies colleagues and clinical supervision
About the Trust
- West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services
- The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation
- Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs
- The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham)
- We employ over 5,000 staff, of whom 59% are BME
- Our turnover for 2024-25 is over £500m
- The Trust is rated as ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commission
- Forensic services are rated as ‘Outstanding’
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Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Tim Wright
- Job title: Principal Art Therapist
- Email address: tim.wright11@nhs.net
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