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Music Therapist

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Music therapists use music to promote positive changes in health and wellbeing. They work with individuals or with groups of clients of all ages and abilities, encouraging them to interact with others, relieve stress and anxiety, and help build confidence.

The Work

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Pay

As a music therapist with the NHS on the Agenda for Change salary scales, you would start on Band 6, £39,912 to £48,635 a year. Senior therapists are on Band 7, £48,788 to £56,747 a year.

Outside the NHS your income would vary according to whether you were freelance or employed.

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Getting In

This is a small profession and self-employment is common. Some music therapists work in the NHS but some work for local authority social work departments or voluntary organisations. Others are freelance and are paid fees rather than a regular salary.

Workforce Education Levels (UK)

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Job Outlook Scotland

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Job Outlook Scotland and UK

  Scotland
2024
2058
2.7 %
RISE
2029
2114
  United Kingdom
2024
22196
5.5 %
RISE
2029
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What Does it Take?

You should have:

Training

Getting On

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Contacts

The following organisations may be able to provide further information.

British Association for Music Therapy (BAMT)
Tel: 020 7837 6100
E-mail: info@bamt.org
Website: http://www.bamt.org
Twitter: @musictherapyuk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BritishAssocMusicTherapy/

Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
Tel: 0300 500 6184
E-mail: education@hcpc-uk.org
Website: http://www.hcpc-uk.org/
Twitter: @The_HCPC
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hcpcuk

The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) is the UK-wide regulatory body responsible for setting and maintaining standards of professional training, performance and conduct in the following health care professions: Arts Therapists; Audiologist; Biomedical Scientist; Chiropodist and Podiatrist; Clinical Scientist; Dietician; Dramatherapist; Occupational Therapist; Operating Department Practitioner; Orthoptist; Paramedic; Physiotherapist; Practitioner Psychologist; Prosthetist and Orthotist; Radiographer; Speech and Language Therapist. (The HCPC may regulate other healthcare professions in the future.) The HCPC website contains a register of all approved courses in the above professions.

NHS Scotland Careers
Website: http://www.careers.nhs.scot
Website (2): https://jobs.scot.nhs.uk/
Twitter: @NHSScotCareers

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