Job Description
Be a part of a world-class academic healthcare system, UChicago Medicine, as a Music Therapist in the Comer Children’s Hospital.
Eligible for a Sign on Bonus up to $1,500!
In this role as a Music Therapist, you will coordinate services of psychosocial support to children and families during hospitalization, surgeries and/or out-patient visits through promoting socialization, developing coping skills, enhancing body image and awareness, increasing self-esteem, facilitating positive adjustment, fostering self-expression, maintaining autonomy, and providing age-appropriate music therapy.
Essential Job Functions:
- Plans, schedules, implements, and evaluates a comprehensive therapeutic music program for individuals and groups.
- Uses music to formulate treatment goals and facilitate interventions.
- Promotes family-centered care through involvement of parents/caregivers, siblings and other family members.
- Develops the therapeutic plan in collaboration with the patient, family, and healthcare team.
- Educates parents and staff to provide a therapeutic outlet for children and families.
- Develops relationships with families that are caring, trusting, beneficial, and professional.
- Advocates for opportunities for parents/caregivers to maintain their parenting role.
- Demonstrates sensitivity to caregiver concerns and uses the caregiver as a resource.
- Identifies referrals for other team members and/or community resources.
- Documents in patient’s electronic medical record in accordance with department guidelines.
- Leadership for Projects and Programming:
- Provides leadership in team meetings; maintains, develops, and models effective working relationships with members of the Child Life staff and the Healthcare team.
- Addresses difficult situations professionally, proactively and collaboratively at the point of service, acts as a model for other staff members.
- Provides consultation/recommendations to medical/patient care team.
- Participates in rounds, patient care conferences, and hospital committees.
- Demonstrates leadership through active participation in departmental meetings/committees.
- Initiates new programs/projects as assigned.
- Provides in-services to hospital staff and works with other departments to facilitate institutional events and clinical presentations.
- Recruits, selects, coordinates, and supervises art therapy interns and/or volunteers within the context of art programming.
- Professional Skills:
- Participates in and contributes to national forums and organizations to remain current with the newest theories, research and trends.
- Assumes responsibility to develop self professionally by participating in continuing education.
- Establishes and accomplishes annual goals in accordance with UCMC goals.
- Engages in community outreach, including but not limited to school and community events.
- Serves as liaison between hospital and participating student internship programs.
- Quality & Performance Improvement:
- Maintains appropriate records and statistical data in accordance with department guidelines.
- Selects, purchases, stocks and maintains inventory within budgetary limits.
- Maintains art supplies that are clean, safe and follows all infection control guidelines.
- Evaluates art programming and makes recommendations for improvement.
- Participates in the planning of new programs, grants, budgets and policies.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in music therapy.
- Current professional Board Certification (MT-BC) or the designation of Registered, Certified or Advance Certified Music Therapist (RMT, CMT, or ACMT) by the American Music Therapy Association.
- Internship in art therapy with hospitalized children and adolescents preferred.
- 1-2 years' work experience with children and adolescents.
- Requires the knowledge and skills necessary to utilize theoretical constructs of human development for assessment and intervention for infants through teenagers.
- Demonstrates leadership abilities with good organizational skills.
- Interpersonal skills needed to establish therapeutic relationships with children and their families, and effective communication.
- Analytical skills necessary to identify and solve problems within a constantly changing and stressful environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's degree in music therapy.
Position Details:
- Full-Time (1.0 FTE).
- Day Shift, Onsite.
- Unit/Department: Comer Children’s Hospital.
- CBA Code: Non-Union.
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