Jefferson- Creative Arts- Music Therapist

2 months ago


Montgomery, United States Jefferson Health Full time

The Creative Arts Therapist is responsible for providing creative art therapies (art, music, or dance) to best serve the needs of the patient. The Creative Arts Therapist will collaborate with other allied health specialists such as Physical or Occupational Therapists to plan, implement, and evaluate counseling and treatment interventions.

Essential Functions • Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson. • Plan, direct, deliver, and evaluate music/art/dance-movement and horticulture therapy based interventions for a full patient caseload in skilled facility, acute rehab, outpatient settings as appropriate. • Designs music/art/dance/horticulture sessions or programs in consultation with clients or site administrators to meet client's goals and objectives. Gathers client information from sources such as case documentation, client observation, or interviews of client or family members. • Assesses client needs or disorders using artistic and horticultural processes. Analyzes or synthesizes client data to draw conclusions or make recommendations for art, music, dance movement, horticultural therapy. Selects or prepares artistic media or related equipment or devices to accomplish therapy session objectives. • Confers with other professionals on client's treatment team to develop, coordinate, or integrate treatment plans. • Documents patient's participation and reactions during creative arts and horticultural therapy and evaluates therapeutic effects. • Continues research in developments in creative arts therapies and horticultural therapy via conferences and other staff development opportunities. • Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Music Therapy: BS or higher in Music Therapy by an AMTA approved college or university (academic coursework, 1200 hours of clinical training, and a supervised internship). May have Graduate degrees in Music Therapy focus on advanced clinical practice and research.

AND Experience: 0-2 years of clinical practice, 1 year preferred.

Music Therapy: Music Therapist-Board Certified (MT-BS) required.

Conditions of Employment

Since this position will require the selected candidate to engage in regular contact with children in the form of care, guidance, supervision or training, you will be required to meet the requirements of the Child Protective Services Act, including the Pennsylvania State Police criminal background check, the Pennsylvania Department of Welfare child abuse criminal background clearance, and an FBI finger print based federal criminal records check. The selected candidate will not be allowed to commence working until all three (3) are completed satisfactorily.

Conditions of Employment

Covid Vaccination is a requirement for employment at Jefferson for employees working at Jefferson's clinical entities or at the University. If you are not currently vaccinated you will be required to receive the vaccination prior to hire date if you are offered employment, unless you request and receive an approved medical or religious exemption from Jefferson.

Closing Statement

Jefferson includes Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health, a dynamic university and health system with broad reach across the Delaware Valley. Jefferson is the second largest employer in Philadelphia and the largest health system in Philadelphia based on total licensed beds.

Through the merger of Thomas Jefferson University and Philadelphia University in 2017, our University includes ten colleges and four schools. We are an NCAA Division II university and an R2 national doctoral university offering undergraduate and graduate-level programs that provide students with a forward-thinking education in architecture, business, design, engineering, fashion and textiles, health, medicine and social science.

Jefferson Health, the clinical arm of Thomas Jefferson University, has grown from a three-hospital academic health center in 2015, to an 18-hospital health system through mergers and combinations that include hospitals at Abington Health, Aria Health, Kennedy Health, Magee Rehabilitation and Einstein Healthcare Network. We have over 50 outpatient and urgent care centers; ten Magnet®-designated hospitals (recognized by the ANCC for nursing excellence); the NCI-designated Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (one of only 70 in the country and one of only two in the region); and one of the largest faculty-based telehealth networks in the country. In 2021, Jefferson Health became the sole owner of HealthPartners Plan, a not-for-profit health maintenance organization in Southeastern Pennsylvania. We are the first health system regionally to create an aligned payer-provider partnership.

Jefferson's mission, vision and values create an organization that attracts the best and the brightest students, faculty, staff, and healthcare professionals, as well as the most visionary leaders to drive exceptional results.

  • OUR MISSION: We improve lives.
  • OUR VISION: Reimagining health, education and discovery to create unparalleled value
  • OUR VALUES: Put People First, Be Bold & Think Differently and Do the Right Thing

As an employer, Jefferson maintains a commitment to provide equal access to employment. Jefferson values diversity and encourages applications from women, members of minority groups, LGBTQ individuals, disabled individuals, and veterans.

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