The LD Arts Therapies team is inviting applications for a part-time, HCPC Registered Band 7 Music Therapist to join our vibrant and welcoming team. This role is fixed term for 12 months to cover maternity leave and is open to music therapists specifically to maintain appropriate access to a varied therapeutic offer to those referred. We are committed to the compassionate leadership values of LDD ABUHB and to bringing arts therapies skill sets to effective use in the multi-professional teamwork across each borough. We are dedicated to working towards equity of access to arts therapies for adults with a Learning Disability in Gwent. The post holder would be a team player, able to bring their skills and gifts with integrity - working autonomously while remaining open and reflexive as they work together within the team. The majority of this role is focused on delivering music therapy clinical sessions to adults with a learning disability in the community and at times on an inpatient assessment and treatment ward. The post holder would also be part of supporting and shaping service development with the team to meet the ever-changing needs of the population, with person-centred focus, co-production, best practice and evaluation at the heart of the work. Supervision skills and provision of CPD and training to other professions are a requirement of this post.
Main duties of the job
To provide highly specialised music therapy assessment, intervention and recommendations to adults with a learning disability, often with complex presenting circumstances including mental and physical health issues and trauma. The role includes collaborative work with other professionals including advice and consultation, reflective practice and clinical formulation. We aim to offer a tailored approach to service delivery, offering therapy in the community, in clinic and online as appropriate to service user needs and preferences. We value co-productive collaboration with people with a learning disability highly, and this informs our service planning. This post offers opportunities for inpatient and community clinical work, with a wide range of referral reasons, requiring a dynamic and creative approach. Supervision and creative supervision processes are an integral part of our work, supporting and transforming the care we provide with good outcomes.
This post is Fixed Term/Secondment until February 2026 due to maternity cover.
If you are interested in applying for the secondment position, you must obtain permission from your current line manager prior to applying for this post.
About us
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work-life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high-quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Job responsibilities
Provision of highly specialist music therapy assessment, intervention and recommendations for people with a learning disability referred to ABUHB LD Arts Therapies service.
The post holder:
* Will be expected to provide a service which will improve and maintain the emotional and psychological health and wellbeing of adults with a learning disability and possibly other presentations such as mental health issues, loss, and trauma, through a combination of highly specialist assessment, formulation of treatment programmes, clinical interventions. The post holder will also provide support and guidance for carers and professionals from an arts therapies perspective.
* Will work in collaboration with professional colleagues and voluntary agencies to provide a specialist service for adults with a learning disability.
* Will contribute to the future development and planning of the LD Arts Therapies service which reflects the strategic planning of psychological services within Aneurin Bevan University Health Board.
* Will provide advice, training and consultation pertaining to arts therapies to staff from other disciplines, carers or statutory bodies as required.
* Will manage autonomously a complex case-load using person-centred and evidence-based principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
* Will be responsible as required by line manager for organising the placement and supervision (clinical and/or non-clinical) of arts therapies students on placement within the service.
* Will maintain HCPC registration as a condition of initial and continued employment.
* Will undertake appropriate CPD, research and audit activity.
This is a fixed term, part-time maternity cover role at 18 hours per week. Clinical supervision with an external arts therapist supervisor is provided, along with many other opportunities for peer supervision and reflective practice. ABUHB is known for upholding compassionate leadership values. Within this context, the LD Arts Therapies team works within an inclusive, psychologically safe framework, encouraging all team members to contribute with equity, able to safely challenge and support each other fully, bringing about best practice and good outcomes - enabling and transforming the lives of those referred for the better.
We welcome applications from HCPC Registered Music Therapists. We are only able to shortlist candidates who can demonstrate that they possess the requisite professional registration and qualifications to practice as a Music Therapist.
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
Person Specification
Qualifications and/or Knowledge
* Meets all essential criteria as per attached job description/person specification.
* Meets all desirable criteria as per attached job description/person specification.
Experience
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Aptitude and Abilities
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Values
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Other
* Meets all essential criteria as per attached job description/person specification.
* Meets all desirable criteria as per attached job description/person specification.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Head of LD Arts Therapies, ABHUB Professional Lead
£46,840 to £53,602 a year per annum pro rata.
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