Music Psychotherapist

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified and experienced HCPC registered Music Psychotherapist to work with a range of clients in our in-patient setting within Secure Services Forensic Units in North Bristol.

Fromeside is an 80 bedded unit which provides inpatient services to male and female service users from the South west region. Wickham unit is a 29 bedded Low secure service for male service users.

The post holder will be based in an established Arts Psychotherapies department which sits within the wider Psychological Therapies Service (PTS). The team is also part of a wider MDT team which includes Medical, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Education and Social Work. The clinical work spans both direct and non-direct working; you would need to be able to generate and accept referrals, complete focussed assessments and offer a range of group and individual treatment options.

In the non-direct work you may offer in-patient staff group Reflective Practice and Clinical Supervision.

Both units are modern purpose built environments and are well resourced including designated therapy rooms.

There are seven arts psychotherapists working in the hospital site and three modalities of treatment are available offering the opportunity for joint working. The Arts Psychotherapists regularly take Masters Trainees from the 4 modalities and it is an established teaching and training site.

The post holder will work as part of the Multi-Disciplinary Team and the Arts Psychotherapies Team. They will work autonomously to plan and implement individual and group sessions and be involved in assessment and ongoing treatment as part of the psychological therapies provision in the service.

The post holder will input into patients' care pathway through attendance at PCR (Patient Care Review) and CPA (Care Pathway approach) meetings. They will also undertake other multi-disciplinary work, including provision of staff support, reflective practice, supervision and training.

This post offers considerable creative opportunity and challenge for a resourceful and committed Music Psychotherapist to further develop the Arts Psychotherapies and the wider service. This is a permanent post.

We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.

Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.

• To provide a specialist Music Psychotherapy service including assessment and treatment, using advanced levels of skill, for individual and group short and long-term music psychotherapy and to advise teams in relation to service users complex needs and the range of interventions available.
• To carry out assessments and consultation to inform and enable comprehensive information gathering to establish diagnosis, re service users who present with unclear symptoms and complex mental health difficulties.
• Regularly review and evaluate the therapy including levels of risk as part of the CPA process.
• Communicate with empathy and sensitivity with service users and carers with an awareness and understanding of their problems and often complex issues.
• To be responsible for own specialist caseload working within Trust policies, protocols and guidelines.
• To record service users progress in RIO patient records, write reports and input statistical date.
• To engage in reflective practice and clinical supervision and to offer clinical…