Music Tutor / Co-ordinator | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Music Co-ordinator/Tutor to join the Secure Care Division in a first-of-its-kind Life Rooms in Secure Care. The post will report to the Life Rooms Team Leader and Head of Rehabilitation and Recovery Services.

The successful candidate will have qualified teacher status and significant experience in Mental Health and/or Learning Disability practice.

Professional and operational supervision will be provided and the opportunity to engage in appropriate training to maintain CPD.

To undertake specialised teaching and related educational duties. To work as part of a team delivering an education curriculum.

Identify the learning needs of patients, in line with individual care programmes. Plan and deliver educational courses for patients across the Hospital.

Develop awareness of the needs of the individual patients and strive at all times to facilitate meeting these needs.

Contribute to the holistic assessment of individual patient needs; devise educational programmes to meet these needs. Monitor, record and document the progress and programmes, to evidence the outcomes as identified by the principles of the CPA.

Assess specific learning needs of patients in their own specialist subject area.

To prepare patients for examinations and supervise patients at examinations.

To assesses and internally moderate all coursework for the purpose of such examinations.

To plan and prepare courses and lessons, in collaboration, as necessary, with other teachers.

Develop and implement teaching or accredited programmes for patients.

To keep abreast of developments and changes in respect of Rehabilitation and Educational trends.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.