Arts Therapist (Music Therapist) inWatford inWatford PUBLISHED 13 SEP 2024

A great opportunity has arisen for a creative and experienced arts psychotherapist (Music ) to work within the Arts Therapies Team in the Specialist Learning Disability Community Team.

As part of our team in Hertfordshire, you'll have the chance to work alongside other talented arts therapists, helping to provide exceptional care and support to our service users. We're committed to helping you develop your professional knowledge and skills, with plenty of opportunities for CPD. And with our excellent rating from the CQC on our last inspection, you can be sure you'll be part of a team that's making a real difference. Plus, you'll receive fantastic ongoing support with a range of supervisions, including operational, professional, and clinical.

  • You will have developed a strong and compassionate alliance with adults with a learning disability, and mental health difficulties and understand the important role of families and paid carers.
  • You will understand how to provide innovative evidenced-based individual and group music therapy assessment and treatment programs, within various community settings across West Herts.

You will be a highly motivated communicator, with the team's shared passion for achieving the best outcomes for our service users.

You will provide clinical supervision and support to other arts therapists and students when required.

The post may require working across a number of locations in West Hertfordshire, and will require some travel across the county.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.


Our Trust Values Are


The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

Then please read on…

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ilona Racz Job title: Arts Therapies Professional Lead Email address: Telephone number:

Kate Senior; SLDS West Service Manager

Ilona Racz; Professional Lead Arts Therapies LD&F
A great opportunity has arisen for a creative and experienced arts psychotherapist (Music ) to work within the Arts Therapies Team in the Specialist Learning Disability Community Team.

As part of our team in Hertfordshire, you'll have the chance to work alongside other talented arts therapists, helping to provide exceptional care and support to our service users. We're committed to helping you develop your professional knowledge and skills, with plenty of opportunities for CPD. And with our excellent rating from the CQC on our last inspection, you can be sure you'll be part of a team that's making a real difference. Plus, you'll receive fantastic ongoing support with a range of supervisions, including operational, professional, and clinical.

  • You will have developed a strong and compassionate alliance with adults with a learning disability, and mental health difficulties and understand the important role of families and paid carers.
  • You will understand how to provide innovative evidenced-based individual and group music therapy assessment and treatment programs, within various community settings across West Herts.

You will be a highly motivated communicator, with the team's shared passion for achieving the best outcomes for our service users.

You will provide clinical supervision and support to other arts therapists and students when required.

The post may require working across a number of locations in West Hertfordshire, and will require some travel across the county.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

Our Trust Values Are

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

Then please read on…

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ilona Racz Job title: Arts Therapies Professional Lead Email address: Telephone number:

Kate Senior; SLDS West Service Manager

Ilona Racz; Professional Lead Arts Therapies LD&F


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