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West London Arts Therapist

Post date
10 October 2024
Closing date
30 October 2024
Location
Shooting Star House, The Avenue, Hampton, TW12 3RA
Salary
£38,782 - 47,374 (including geographical allowance)
Hours
37.5
Contact email
Careers@shootingstar.org.uk

About Shooting Star Children’s Hospices

We have an exciting opportunity for an Arts Therapist to join our team at Shooting Star Children’s Hospices.

Shooting Star Children’s Hospices provides specialist care and support to families who have a baby, child or young person with a life-limiting condition, or whose child has died. Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we support families across Surrey, north-west London and south-west London. This role will work in the boroughs of Brent, Ealing, Harrow, Hammersmith & Fulham, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Westminster, and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea).

It’s a great time to join Shooting Star Children’s Hospices as we recently launched our Specialist Bereavement Service and we are now supporting families whose child died unexpectedly, as well as expectedly.

 

About the role

Job Title: West London Drama, Music or Art Therapist

Salary: £38,782 – 47,374 (including geographical allowance)

Team: Therapists

Hours: 30-37.5 hours per week

Location: Shooting Star House and across West London

Your key purpose will be to provide high quality art, drama or music therapy children and family members. You will be using the medium of art, drama, play or other creative techniques, addressing the psychological challenges associated with life-limiting conditions trauma, and issues of loss and grief.

This is an opportunity to work holistically with a multi-disciplinary team of psychosocial professionals, with a diverse caseload, providing assessment, individual and group therapy programs with children and/or family members. The post holder will utilise skills, knowledge and expertise to provide advice, education, signposting, supervision and support to staff, families, schools and other professionals.

This is a new, community-based post for West London, to enable those not previously able to access services to receive needed therapy and support.

 

About you

This role requires previous experience of working as an arts therapist in a health or social care environment, as part of a multi-disciplinary team. You should have significant experience of working with children and young people, including those with disabilities and those experiencing loss and grief, and chronic or acute trauma.

We are looking for a therapist skilled in working closely with parents/carers, providing clinical expertise and suggesting specific approaches/strategies, and advising other team members.

 

What we offer

In return you will receive a competitive salary along with a range of benefits, which include:

  • Pension scheme
  • NHS Pension Scheme (for eligible employees) or our stakeholder pension scheme, with up to 7% employer contributions
  • Annual leave
  • 27 days plus Bank Holidays rising with length of service
  • Contractual benefits
  • Generous sick pay scheme
  • Enhanced maternity, adoption, and paternity leave pay
  • Flexible working arrangements
  • Death in service benefits
  • Reimbursed professional membership fees
  • Eye care
  • Employee referral scheme
  • Blue Light discount card
  • Health and wellbeing
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Occupational Health
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Mental Health First Aiders
  • Nutritionally balanced meals at Christopher’s (free for employees) and free fruit at our Hampton site

Safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all our staff to share this commitment. Employment is subject to receipt of satisfactory references and a DBS check.

In addition, an enhanced/standard disclosure will be required for this role. Our recruitment checks, induction and ongoing support and supervision reflect our commitment to safeguarding the families we support.

Equality, diversity and inclusion

Shooting Star Children’s Hospice is committed to inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that getting things right is critical for us to live our organisation’s values: Professionalism, Respect, Integrity, Diversity and Excellence.

We are always trying to improve our way of working to be more inclusive and equal. Our vision is for Shooting Star Children’s Hospice to be a place where people of all backgrounds, groups and communities feel welcomed to work and volunteer.

Please contact Sarah Hodkinson sarah.hodkinson@shootingstar.org.uk if you have any questions about this role.

To apply please visit our website

Closing Date: 30/10/2024

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