Creative Art Therapist

About The Role

Job Title:

Creative Arts Therapist (Art/Music/Drama)

Job Location:

Neptune School, Warmley Bristol BS30

Salary:
The full-time equivalent salary is between £47,014.50 and £48,009.00, however this role is working 30 hours per week, 42 weeks per year

Contract Type: 12-month Fixed Term Contract – 4 days per week - Term Time Only

This maternity cover role offers a rare opportunity to step into the heart of Neptune School and experience the meaningful, relationship‑centred work we do every day to support our pupils. As a Creative Arts Therapist joining us for this period, you’ll become part of a nurturing, multidisciplinary community where your skills can make a genuine difference.

You’ll play an active role in delivering training sessions to our teaching teams, exploring creative activities that enhance learning, and sharing invaluable insights from Pupils. You’ll also lead reflective practice sessions with team members, encouraging and assisting them to express their thoughts and feelings, and discuss pupil learning experiences. This places the learning journey of our pupils at the centre of the work, making them an integral part of the process.

Your creativity and expertise will shine as you design therapeutic sessions to help our Pupils express their emotions in healthy and constructive ways. These sessions will have a lasting impact, especially for neurodiverse Pupils or those who have experienced trauma, providing them with meaningful outlets when words aren’t enough.

You’ll support a small caseload, offering 1:1 or group sessions to best meet the needs of the children. You’ll also have protected time to develop your own clinical and mentoring skills, along with receiving regular clinical supervision.

• Taking a Neurodiverse affirming and trauma‑informed approach to clinical work, you’ll work with a small caseload of learners with neurodiverse needs. You can do this through 1:1 support, classroom work and group sessions.
• Assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating individual and group psychological or creative arts therapy sessions.
• Working alongside Speech and Language Therapists and other Creative Art Therapists.
• Training and mentoring your education colleagues on best practice and effective ways to support the pupils within the school. You may do this by designing classroom strategies, running reflective practice sessions, or delivering training directly to teachers and learning support assistants or teaching assistants.
• Administration:
  Whilst doing all your great work with the pupils, we’ll need you to keep their records up to date and carry out all the administrative tasks you’d expect to come with this role.
• Attending monthly Psychological Services team meetings and quarterly Integrated Therapies Team meetings.

• A recognised Post Graduate qualification in Art Therapy/Music Therapy or Drama Therapy along with HCPC Registration.
• Great experience working as an Creative Arts Therapist.
• The desire and confidence to run supervisions and offer training and support to other Psychological Therapists.
• Good IT skills – We’ll train you on how to use our systems, but it would help if you had a working understanding of using Microsoft packages like Excel, Word, Outlook and Teams.
• A full driving licence. Whilst this role is based in a single location, travel to other sites will be required at times including travel to our Tiverton Hub for team meetings and training where required.

• Holidays – You’ll get 28 days annual leave, including public holidays.
• Pension scheme – Our pension scheme is based on you paying in 5%, and us adding 3%.
• Learning & Development Opportunities – We provide comprehensive learning opportunities for team members to develop themselves.
• Discounts – You’ll have access to brilliant discounts through the Blue Light Card and our own employee benefits platform.
• Wellbeing Support – Your wellbeing is always our priority. You’ll have access to mental health and wellbeing support. On top of this, our therapies team offers a six weekly…