Job overview

Are you a registered Art, Drama, Music Therapist with a passion for using creative expression to support older people through complex emotional and psychological challenges?

We’re looking for a dedicated Art, Drama, Music Therapist to join our small, vibrant, and highly creative team.  This is a rewarding opportunity to make a meaningful impact within a dynamic and supportive multidisciplinary team and fast paced environment.

You’ll be part of a service who are passionate about working with older adults.  Our team values innovation, empathy, and reflective practice—and where your creative contributions are encouraged and celebrated.

Main duties of the job

For the provision and development of specialised art, drama, music therapy and psychological services for our patients on Ruby ward.  The work will have a particular emphasis on later life issues, including Dementia. 

• To assess clients with complex and high risk needs for suitability for individual and group art, drama, music therapy.
• To facilitate a treatment program which is flexible and sensitive to the needs of the client group and involve clients in group and one to one work using a variety of modalities associated with their particular discipline (i.e., art therapy, music therapy, dramatherapy) in a therapeutic and creative and safe way.
• To work as part of a multidisciplinary team in planning, implementing and evaluating treatment, providing assessment and treatment for clients referred to the service and evaluate care.
• To provide specialist advice and clinical supervision for other professionals, colleagues or trainees where appropriate.
• The post holder will show proof of commitment to continuing professional development.
• To work independently, designing and establishing a specialist clinical art, drama, music therapy service for clients.

At KMPT, we are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.

Working for our organisation

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are  rated Good overall by the CQC.

Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.

We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Our strategy

Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.

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