Highly Specialist Music Therapist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join our Community Therapy Team.

This role will be to provide a high quality, evidence based speech and language therapy services, which promotes participation, speech, language and communication needs of children and young people.

Please click on the job title to find out more about the role. 

This role is not open to sponsorship.

Role Requirements

• Lead the provision of high quality, evidence-based music therapy provision for children and young people attending The Children’s Trust School in partnership with other members of the multidisciplinary team and education services.
• Provide high quality, evidence based and equitable music therapy interventions for children and young people attending The Children’s Trust School.
• Undertake specialist music therapy assessments of children with highly complex needs e.g. multiple co-morbidities and neurodisabilities through standardised and non-standardised assessments and clinical observations.
• Work therapeutically with children and young people who have complex needs and may present with mental health needs, and behaviours that may challenge.
• Develop therapy goals, in collaboration with the child and family/carers, as well as the multidisciplinary and education teams, other health professionals and agencies, to facilitate the participation of the child in their life skills.
• Facilitates effective communication with families and members of the multidisciplinary team. Recognises and reduces barriers to communication as appropriate.
• Maintains clear and concise documents and records, in accordance with The Children’s Trust Policy. Ensures documents are managed confidentially at all times.
• Use a range of advanced communication skills, to share specialised information and discussions with a range of audiences, with different levels of knowledge and expertise.
• Teach and integrate music therapy techniques and practice, through training to the wider team and proactive involvement in class and on residential houses.
• Contribute to child related reports and assist with the collation of these as required, in a timely manner in line with organisational targets.
• Take on coordinating therapist role for small number of young people and represent therapy at annual review and other statutory meetings.

For more information, a copy of the candidate briefing pack and application form please click here

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY – ‘How to Apply’

Please do not complete the online application form, instead please use the link above to access the internal application form and email this as directed below.    Return your completed form by email to the Recruitment and Compliance Team, email recruitment@thechildrenstrust.org.uk

About Us

The Children’s Trust is the UK’s leading charity for children with acquired brain injury, providing expert rehabilitation, education, therapy, and care at our national specialist centre in Tadworth, and to children and their families across the UK, via our Brain Injury Community Service.

Boasting a beautiful 24-acre site in Surrey, we are located just outside of London, close to the M25 (accessible via Junction 8, A217 to Tadworth) and easily accessible via National Rail, by way of: Clapham Junction, Sutton, and Epsom.

Staff Benefits

The work we do is highly rewarding, and in addition to an attractive salary, we offer a valuable range of benefits, including our staff flexible benefits platform, on-site nursery, free eye tests, enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay, time out days for those experiencing menopause symptoms and time off for gender reassignment.

We also offer additional annual leave days for those with long service, with entitlements ranging from 35 to 41 days (including bank holidays) depending on your length of service.

Other benefits include free on-site parking; a staff shuttle service from Epsom and Sutton train stations to Tadworth Court, subsidised cafeteria, on-site staff accommodation (subject to availability), the ability to retain your NHS pension (where applicable), Teacher’s pension (where applicable) or the opportunity to join an alternative scheme, and the opportunity to develop your career in a supportive and collaborative environment.

Rehabilitation of Offenders

Many roles at The Children’s Trust are exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, by virtue of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013 and 2020) and as such, are subject to an Enhanced DBS check.  Successful applicants will be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, which will disclose all unspent convictions and adult cautions and any spent convictions or adult cautions that would not be protected.  The exceptions to this are our retail roles within The Children’s Trust shops, which are subject to Basic DBS checks which will disclose unspent convictions or adult cautions.

Equal Opportunity Employer

To help us achieve our ambition to give children and young people with brain injury and neurodisability the opportunity to live the best life possible, we want to accurately reflect the UK’s diverse population. We want equity, diversity, and inclusion to be at the heart of everything we do, and our people, services, and culture to reflect the diverse needs of all. Through our diversity and inclusion strategy, we have made a commitment to increase the diversity of our charity and create an inclusive culture. We have networks across the organisation working to ensure that these aims are met - including an LGBTQIA2S+ group, Ethnic Diversity Group, and Spark – our broad EDI group. Read more about our EDI work here. We welcome applications from all who share our ambition regardless of background. We will strive to ensure that any reasonable adjustments are made in respect of interview and working arrangements.

Online Searches

In accordance with statutory safeguarding and child protection guidance, online searches will be conducted for shortlisted candidates before interview. The online searches will be conducted by a person who is independent of the interview and selection process and will focus on relevant information returned via searches of the candidate’s name (and variations thereof). Social media searches will be limited to professional platforms such as LinkedIn. Any concerns relating to suitability for work with children and young people will be forwarded to the interview panel, for discussion during the interview.