Advanced Creative Arts Therapist (Music Therapist) - Philadelphia, PA
About The Position
The Advanced Creative Arts Therapist is a member of the healthcare team who uses creative or expressive arts therapy interventions to promote patients’ emotional, social, and physical health, encourage self-expression, and help patients and families cope with illness, injury, disability, and healthcare experiences. The role practices at the competent to proficient level and includes training and supervision of creative arts therapy students and interns. This position focuses on the Level IV Neonatal/Infant Intensive Care Unit. The Music Therapist provides non-pharmacological interventions that promote bonding between medically fragile infants and their families, support infant neurodevelopment and health, mitigate trauma, foster connection, and promote physiologic regulation. Experience or training related to NICU or similar settings, trauma-informed care, and birth-parent or caregiver mental health may be relevant to the role. The therapist works with patients and families in individual and group sessions, collaborates with the interdisciplinary team, and provides developmentally appropriate care that supports psychosocial and physical needs. The position also contributes to departmental operations, professional development, cost-effective programming, and fundraising efforts.
Requirements
- Master’s degree.
- At least two years of paid experience as a Creative Arts Therapist.
- Knowledge of infant, child, and adolescent growth and development.
- Previous and/or current experience working with infants, children, and adolescents.
- Excellent customer service and communication skills.
- Ability to prioritize and complete duties in a timely and organized manner.
- Ability to work collaboratively and positively with others.
- Ability to perform work according to CHOP policies and procedures, professional standards of care, and applicable laws.
- Ability to set goals and judge results in accordance with high standards.
- Ability to provide care with sensitivity and respect.
- Ability to advance care through development of new ideas and technology.
- Ability to promote teamwork in support of CHOP’s mission.
- Ability to understand and exceed customer expectations.
- One of the following certifications is required upon hire: Music Therapist Board Certified (MT-BC) from the Certification Board for Music Therapists; Art Therapy Board Certified (ATR-BC) from the Art Therapy Credentials Board; or Board Certified Dance Movement Therapist (BC-DMT) from the American Dance Therapy Association.
- Employees working in patient-care buildings or with patient-facing responsibilities must receive an annual influenza vaccine as a condition of employment.
Nice To Haves
- Training or a focus in working with infants in a NICU or similar setting.
- Experience or a focus in trauma-informed care throughout the lifetime.
- Experience or a focus in birth-parent or related caregiver mental health.
- Pennsylvania Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) certification.
Responsibilities
- Assess, prioritize, individualize, and evaluate plans of care based on patients’ and families’ developmental, emotional, and coping needs.
- Provide individual or group therapy using developmentally appropriate art, music, or movement experiences to assess and meet psychosocial or physical needs related to illness or medical treatment.
- Demonstrate, explain, or provide stress-reduction techniques to facilitate adaptive coping.
- Develop therapeutic, supportive relationships that help patients and family members cope with illness and healthcare experiences and foster empowerment and self-esteem.
- Collaborate with patients, families, and interdisciplinary team members to integrate goals and plans for optimal, family-centered, developmentally appropriate, psychosocially sound care aligned with CHOP’s ICARE values.
- Serve as a resource to department colleagues.
- Train, supervise, model for, provide clinical support and coaching to, and give feedback to creative arts therapy students, interns, and volunteers.
- Comply with patient-care documentation requirements and Hospital policies.
- Participate in tasks, initiatives, or committees supporting departmental operations or professional development.
- Implement cost-effective programming, adhere to budget constraints, and support fundraising through donor contributions.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
