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Music Therapist

2 months ago

Palo Alto, California, United States Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Full time
Job Summary

This role is responsible for providing comprehensive music therapy assessment and treatment interventions for pediatric patients, siblings, and families. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in music therapy and experience working with children and families.

Key Responsibilities
  • Conduct group and individual music therapy sessions with patients
  • Maintain accurate and up-to-date charting, data, and statistics
  • Maintain supplies and organize inventory
  • Support community and donor relations
  • Supervise music therapy volunteers
Essential Functions

The following are typical examples of work performed by positions in this job classification:

  • Facilitate music therapy interventions and activities that are age and developmentally appropriate
  • Implement music therapy assessment and treatment interventions for pediatric patients and families
  • Facilitate music therapy groups and one-on-one interventions
  • Build rapport and trust as part of patients' and families' therapeutic support system
  • Provide siblings with opportunities to express their emotions and concerns
  • Support special music-related events
  • Assist in managing patient-generated materials for Development/Donor Relations teams
  • Conduct music therapy presentations
  • Communicate all pertinent information learned through interaction with patients to healthcare team
  • Attend pertinent multi-disciplinary rounds and patient care conferences
  • Document and report clearly and concisely, maintaining consistent records in charting system
Requirements

The ideal candidate will have:

  • A Bachelor's Degree in a work-related field/discipline from an accredited college or university
  • Board Certified Music Therapist (MT-BC) certification
  • Ability to come up with creative ideas and activities
  • Ability to communicate effectively orally, verbally, and in writing
  • Ability to conduct sessions to improve patients' mental and/or physical well-being
  • Ability to develop treatment plans to meet needs of patient/family, based on needs assessment, patient interests, and objectives of therapy
  • Ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns
  • Ability to teach others how to express feelings and concerns through a variety of music modalities
  • Ability to use the Microsoft Office Suite of software applications
Working Conditions

The Physical Requirements and Working Conditions in which the job is typically performed are available from the Occupational Health Department.

Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity and non-discrimination in all of its policies and practices, including the area of employment.