Join Our Team
Arts Psychotherapists
Closing Date: 3rd October 2025
Daily rate: from £150
Are you a Music or Drama Psychotherapist who would like to share your professionalism and experience to support vulnerable children and young people in West London?
Our team provides individual arts psychotherapy for children aged 5 to 12 years These take place in primary schools, and include weekly Art, Dramatherapy and Music Therapy sessions and, in some settings, support for young children through group work.
The current vacancy is for an experienced psychotherapist to offer weekly sessions to three children in Key Stage 1 and 2, all based in Ealing. Initially, the post we offer will be for one day a week, during school hours, with the possibility to expand to further work, depending on qualifications and experience. The initial daily rate will be from £150.
Key information
Prior relevant experience of working in schools, particularly KS1, early years, or with children’s services, is desirable and needs to be given in full on your current CV.
All our therapists are engaged on a self-employed basis, with a contract for 10 weekly sessions over a whole term, which is usually negotiated for the whole of a child’s individual process and varies according to each referral. We recommend individual therapy takes place over a minimum of a year.
All our team members are subject to Enhanced DBS checks, HCPC registration and therefore have protected status or UKCP equivalent qualification and arts experience.
Supervision Chance Arts provides planning and managerial supervision for all its therapists Team members are expected to have supervision with a supervisor of their own discipline.
Please fill in the form below and a member of the team will be in touch
Trustee Roles
We’re looking for someone who is interested in our work, has commitment, and an understanding of the need to maximise our financial resources.
The Trustees oversee the governance of Chance for Children Trust. They ensure the effective and efficient administration of Chance Arts including financial stability and the proper use of funds; and to comply with the relevant legislation and regulation of the Charity Commission for England and Wales.
We have four quarterly board meetings and all our Trustees are registered with the Disclosure and Barring Service (Enhanced Level).