Music Therapist (Thought Disorders Unit)

Sheppard Pratt • Elkridge, MD

13d • Onsite

About The Position

This position involves providing music therapy services to patients within the Thought Disorders Unit. The Music Therapist will contribute to a positive learning environment, develop and implement individualized treatment plans, provide direct music therapy to individuals and groups, and maintain accurate documentation in the electronic medical records (EMR). The role requires strong interpersonal and analytical skills, as well as the ability to work effectively with diverse patient populations and multidisciplinary staff. The position also involves managing potential mental/visual fatigue due to working with emotionally disturbed patients.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in music therapy from a college or university program approved by the American Music Therapy Association plus 1-2 years related experience OR Masters degree in music therapy from an accredited college or university plus 3-6 months related work experience.
• Licensed by the State Board of Examiners for Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and Music Therapists to practice Music Therapy at the time of appointment and continuously while holding the position.
• Certified by the Certification Board of Music Therapists (BC-MT) or hold the designations of ACMT, CMT or RMT at the time of appointment and continuously while holding the position.
• Substantial interpersonal skills sufficient to interact effectively and professionally with multidisciplinary staff, faculty, and patients from a wide variety of diagnostic groups, cultural backgrounds, and functioning levels (51-80% of work time).
• Relatively high level of analytical skills sufficient to evaluate the effectiveness of treatment interventions and programs.
• Creative and adaptive modifications of treatment approaches and techniques where treatment objectives are difficult to achieve.
• Work requires talking, hearing, mid-range vision, depth perception, color vision and field of vision.

Nice To Haves

• Basic computer usage skills

Responsibilities

• Contributes in creating a learning environment that values, empowers, enriches and supports patients/students and other staff.
• Develops a professional treatment plan that meets patient needs and complements the services provided by other treatment team members.
• Applies knowledge of normal growth and development for specific patient population through the use of accepted conceptual principles, e.g. Erikson.
• Provides professional music treatment/services to individuals and groups based on the specific needs and diagnosis of the patient populations.
• Completes written documentation and data entry into the electronic medical records (EMR) to record initial patient assessment and ongoing treatment and progress through discharge in compliance with Hospital and program standards.
• Reports pertinent patient observations to treatment team.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level