Music Therapist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Hours / week
- 22.5
- Posted
- 17/08/2026
- Closes
- 30/08/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This is a part-time, fixed-term Band 6 Music Therapist role within psychological services at Antelope House, Southampton. The postholder will support patients across acute and crisis mental health inpatient wards and the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team. It offers an exciting opportunity for an early career music therapist to develop specialist skills in an acute and crisis mental health setting, with supervision and professional development opportunities. The role involves providing music therapy assessment and intervention for service users with complex difficulties.
Essential criteria
- MA/MSc or equivalent in Music Therapy
- Met conditions of full membership Professional Association (British Association for Music Therapy (BAMT)
- Post-holder must be HCPC registered.
Desirable criteria
- Post-graduate training in one or more additional specialised areas of practice.
- Membership of a relevant professional association.
- Supervised clinical experience with those with complex presentations, including risk to self and others, and their families
- Skills in the use of complex methods of mental health assessment, intervention and management.
- Ability to form good working relationships with others in a multidisciplinary and multi-agency setting.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice.
- Can demonstrate effective team working
- Self-motivated and able to work without supervision.
- Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively
- Knowledge of the theory, practice and assessment of Music therapy in specific difficult to treat groups.
- Experience of the application of Music therapy in different cultural contexts
- Experience of delivering group programmes.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- Current knowledge of relevant legislation and ethical issues (e.g. Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults).
- Interest and ability to contribute to service development.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis, as practiced within the clinical field of adult mental health.
- Experience of delivering music therapy for adults with severe and enduring mental illness
- Additional Criteria
- Knowledge of music therapy, drawing on a variety of approaches and/or models, as appropriate to the needs of patients, carers and families presenting with multi-complex difficulties.
- Ability to use this knowledge and skill with a highly complex client group.
- Knowledge of problems faced by those with mental health problems and their families
- Skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Flexible and adaptive working style; an ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of patients and families from a wide geographical area and across services, as required.
- Calm under pressure. An ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Highly organised and able to maintain competing demands.
- Diplomatic and empathetic manner.
- Able to maintain confidentiality.
- Attention to detail.
- MA/MSc or equivalent in Music Therapy
- Met conditions of full membership Professional Association (British Association for Music Therapy (BAMT)
- Post-holder must be HCPC registered.
- Post-graduate training in one or more additional specialised areas of practice.
- Membership of a relevant professional association.
- Supervised clinical experience with those with complex presentations, including risk to self and others, and their families
- Skills in the use of complex methods of mental health assessment, intervention and management.
- Ability to form good working relationships with others in a multidisciplinary and multi-agency setting.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice.
- Can demonstrate effective team working
- Self-motivated and able to work without supervision.
- Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively
- Knowledge of the theory, practice and assessment of Music therapy in specific difficult to treat groups.
- Experience of the application of Music therapy in different cultural contexts
- Experience of delivering group programmes.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- Current knowledge of relevant legislation and ethical issues (e.g. Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults).
- Interest and ability to co
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Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Music Therapist
The closing date is 30 August 2026
Job summary
We are looking to recruit a passionate, enthusiastic and motivated Band 6 Music Therapist to work as part of psychological services, supporting patients across the acute and crisis mental health inpatient wards and Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team at Antelope House (Southampton).
This post will be fixed term for 6 months, part time, 22.5 hours per week, to support a wider music therapy project taking place in the service.
The Acute & Crisis psychology team at Antelope House consists of practitioner psychologists, assistant psychologists, and music therapist working collaboratively to provide assessment, brief interventions and consultation for adults with severe and/or enduring mental illness, requiring short-term admission to hospital or support from our crisis resolution and home treatment team to either avoid admission or support discharge.
This is an exciting opportunity for an early career music therapist to develop specialist skills within an acute and crisis mental health setting. The post has support from an experienced Music Therapist, regular supervision and opportunities for professional development with a supportive multi-disciplinary environment.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will provide music therapy assessment
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