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Music Therapist-Cancer & Hematology Center

Texas Children\'sHouston🇺🇸United States

Quick overview

SeniorityMid Senior
Employment typeFull Time
Work modeOn Site
LocationHouston, United States
Patient Care

Job description

We are searching for The Faris Foundation Music Therapist for the Cancer and Hematology Center-- someone who develops, plans and delivers evidence-based psycho-social assessment and implements Music Therapy to help meet the psychological, emotional, developmental, spiritual, physical and social needs of children in a health care setting.

Think you've got what it takes?

  • Provides evidenced-based, comprehensive assessment/screening to create focused, goal oriented therapeutic music interventions for patients/families.
  • Provides psychosocial screenings/assessments of patients and/or their families for information about the patients’ social, emotional/psychological, developmental/educational and health situations as well as family circumstances and relationships as required for patient care and/or treatment/transition planning.
  • Conducts assessment of diagnosis, medical condition and goals of treatment to determine plan/goals for music therapy.
  • Conducts formal and informal developmental assessments of patients as evidenced by documentation in the medical record.
  • Assesses coping styles of patient and families during introduction of service to develop therapeutic plan of care that incorporates patient and family needs, interests and abilities.
  • Collaborates with patient and family to develop therapeutic plan that establishes measurable long term and short term goals and documents this in the medical chart.
  • Develops, implements and/or updates comprehensive music therapy care plans based on comprehensive assessment and reassessment.
  • Bachelor's Degree Music Therapy required
  • Master's Degree Music Therapy preferred
  • MT-BC - Music Therapy-Board Certification  from Board for Music Therapists required