Music Therapist

Full-Time: 40 Hours Per Week

1st Shift: 8am - 4:30pm or 9am - 5:30pm

Monday - Friday

Travel Required: Akron, Mahoning Valley, Medina, and Canton Primary Care Locations

Summary

Provides comprehensive music therapy assessment and treatment interventions for patients, families, and community served by Akron Children's.

Responsibilities

• Plans, develops, and implements comprehensive therapeutic music interventions for infants, children, adolescents, young adults, families, and staff. Facilitates group and individual music therapy sessions with inpatient and outpatient populations in a variety of settings, including home environment.
• Responsible for assessing patients and families to determine psycho-emotional and developmental needs to facilitate goal focused music therapy-based interventions to promote adaptive coping strategies.
• Maintains accurate and up-to-date charting related to patient participating in music therapy sessions.
• In collaboration with individual divisions/departments, designs and implements music therapy interventions for patients, learners, and staff. Oversees activities of volunteers and learners during group music therapy sessions.
• Facilitates music therapy education for patients, families, staff, and community. Collaborates with faculty at affiliated institutions to provide comprehensive learning opportunities for music therapy practicum students.
• Participates in research, donor relations, and professional collaboration, including participation in multi-disciplinary teams, like Palliative Care, Behavioral Health, Addiction Services, Burn Center, and Rehabilitation Services. Actively participate in the development of evidence-based practice for the field of music therapy and advocate for integration of evidence-based music therapy interventions into patient treatment plans.
• Other duties as required.

Other information:

Technical Expertise

• Experience in working with children, adolescents, and young adults in individual and group-based interventions is required. Experience working with infants is preferred.
• Experience with hospital-community collaboration is preferred.
• Ability to organize and prioritize multiple work assignments and projects.
• Experience working in electronic charting software (e.g., EPIC) is preferred.
• Strong problem-solving, interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written) are required.
• Research experience preferred.

Education and Experience

• Education: Bachelor's Degree in Music Therapy required. Master's in Music Therapy is preferred.
• Certification: MT-BC board certification through Certification Board for Music Therapists is required.
• Licensure: A valid, active license to practice as Licensed Professional Music Therapist in the state of Ohio is required.
• Years of relevant experience: 2 years
• Years of supervisory experience: None required but experience supervising interns, students, and other practitioners is preferred.
• Ability to deal with confidential information and/or issues using discretion and judgement.

Full Time

FTE: 1.000000

Status: Onsite