Music Therapist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 09/09/2026
- Closes
- 23/09/2026
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 9-month fixed-term part-time Music Therapist position within the Cambridge and Peterborough Arts Therapies Service. The role involves providing specialist Music Therapy assessment and intervention for young people, supported by Youth Music grant funding. The successful candidate will manage a caseload, work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, and contribute to the service's innovative approach to recovery and resilience. This is an exciting opportunity to develop existing skills within an experienced team.
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent in Music
- Professional Qualification in Music Therapy at Master's level or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of relevant post registration training
- Experience of working in Mental Health.
- Experience of Music Therapy individual assessment and intervention relevant to Mental Health
- Experience of using clinical supervision effectively
- Skills & Abilities
- Ability to understand complex non-verbal communication
- Ability to support and engage in shared decision making with patients, including with patients who experience communication challenges
- Ability to provide detailed and complex psychological reports and information to inform and support care planning processes
- Ability to liaise effectively with a range of professionals, and external services or organisations, regarding sensitive and complex issues relating to clinical work, including issues relating to risk
- Skills in providing group work
- Knowledge & Understanding
- Knowledge and understanding of research methodology and outcome measurement
- Education
- Degree or equivalent in Music
- Professional Qualification in Music Therapy at Master's level or equivalent
- Evidence of relevant post registration training
- Experience of working in Mental Health.
- Experience of Music Therapy individual assessment and intervention relevant to Mental Health
- Experience of using clinical supervision effectively
- Skills & Abilities
- Ability to understand complex non-verbal communication
- Ability to support and engage in shared decision making with patients, including with patients who experience communication challenges
- Ability to provide detailed and complex psychological reports and information to inform and support care planning processes
- Ability to liaise effectively with a range of professionals, and external services or organisations, regarding sensitive and complex issues relating to clinical work, including issues relating to risk
- Skills in providing group work
- Knowledge & Understanding
- Knowledge and understanding of research methodology and outcome measurement
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Music Therapist
The closing date is 23 September 2026
Job summary
This post is a Fixed Term of 9 months in the Cambridge and Peterborough Arts Therapies Service.
This post offers an exciting opportunity for an ambitious, highly enthusiastic and motivated Music Therapist who is passionate about placing young people's needs at the centre of their clinical work and who is interested in delivering a high standard of clinical Music Therapy sessions for young people. This post is supported by Youth Music grant funding via the CPFT Head to Toe Charity and provides community-based Music Therapy which presently takes place at the Child Development Centre in Peterborough. Music Therapists previously involved in the Youth Music project have been recognised through national awards; CAPHO, HSJ, and with a publication through Public Health England and have presented the project at the Royal College of Psychiatry.
The Music Therapist will be managed and clinically supervised within the CPFT Arts Therapies Service which innovatively promotes recovery and resilience. Music Therapists within the Arts Therapies team are experienced and have a wealth of knowledge to share with the appointed Music Therapist and so this post offers an opportunity for a Music Therapist to develop their existing skills.
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