This is a rewarding, contract for 3 days a week supporting babies, children, and young people with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions and their families, at any point in the child’s journey, from birth to End of Life and after death. You will be joining our well-established Multi-Disciplinary Care team providing effective individual or group Music Therapy to children and their families in their own homes, in The Ark or at a place of choice, as well as supporting the assessment and provision of bereavement support. Noah’s Ark covers a large catchment area so the work does involve frequent travel to reach families in need. You will work in partnership with the child/young person and their family, demonstrating sensitivity to the child/young person and family’s needs at all times, by promoting comfort, dignity, privacy and quality of life. The successful candidate will also work alongside the wider statutory and voluntary services and community teams, ensuring continuity of care and support for children and their families. Sessions will cover term and holiday times. ABOUT YOU We are looking for an enthusiastic and creative professional to join our team. The appointed therapist will have previous experience in working with children with complex needs and, where possible, have experience in either mental health or bereavement services. An understanding of medical settings is desirable. The therapist should have a good understanding of safeguarding legislation and practice and be confident in lone working and problem solving. Due to the nature of the work the therapist should have good time management skills and the ability to have sensitive conversations when they arise. The appointed therapist will be driven to continue to develop the therapies service, bringing new ideas to the team and will be confident in communicating the value of the service. Enhancing the service provision for families referred to Noah’s Ark and the understanding of children’s palliative care within the professional network. Please review the attached job description for further details. Interviews to take place on week commencing 24th March. Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice is an equal opportunity employer and particularly welcomes applications from groups who are currently under-represented in our staff. Our diversity council is working hard to construct positive changes within our organisation. We are a disabilty confident employer and part of our commitment is to interview all applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for a job vacancy and consider them on their abilities. We reserve the right to close this role early, so we encourage early applications.