What are the responsibilities and job description for the Music Therapist position at PrairieCare?
About Us
Newport Healthcare is a nationwide behavioral healthcare organization dedicated to transforming young lives through evidence-based care. To that end, we have assembled the best teen and young adult mental health treatment staff in the country, and we want you to join us. While our experts guide our clients to sustainable healing, our job is to support our valued staff members, and we do that through offering industry-competitive salaries, career growth and skills expansion, student loan repayment and tuition reimbursement, and a company commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, among other advantages. Be part of a team that's dedicated to providing compassionate care based in authentic connection, mutual respect, and unconditional love—and experience the rewards of making a difference in the lives of young people and their families each and every day.
Empowering Lives. Restoring Families.®
Responsibilities
The Music Therapist facilitates programming that provides healing through music- based therapy techniques that emphasize clients to explore their feelings, improve their emotional wellbeing and problem-solving skills.
Essential Duties
Benefit Options Include
Newport Healthcare provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Newport Healthcare is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity, including providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with a disability. Applicants with a physical or mental disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process please email accommodations@newportacademy.com for assistance.
For more information on Equal Opportunity, please click here Equal Employment Opportunity Posters
Newport Healthcare is a nationwide behavioral healthcare organization dedicated to transforming young lives through evidence-based care. To that end, we have assembled the best teen and young adult mental health treatment staff in the country, and we want you to join us. While our experts guide our clients to sustainable healing, our job is to support our valued staff members, and we do that through offering industry-competitive salaries, career growth and skills expansion, student loan repayment and tuition reimbursement, and a company commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, among other advantages. Be part of a team that's dedicated to providing compassionate care based in authentic connection, mutual respect, and unconditional love—and experience the rewards of making a difference in the lives of young people and their families each and every day.
Empowering Lives. Restoring Families.®
Responsibilities
The Music Therapist facilitates programming that provides healing through music- based therapy techniques that emphasize clients to explore their feelings, improve their emotional wellbeing and problem-solving skills.
Essential Duties
- Collaborate with Clinical Director or designee to identify and incorporate music activities for clients.
- Interact with milieu and encourage participation in sessions.
- Facilitate individual and group sessions as assigned.
- Demonstrate practice and techniques and safely guide clients.
- Facilitate passive listening and participatory programs that include playing, singing, and creating music.
- Design musical interventions based on therapeutic goals to improve psychological, physical and social health.
- Visually assess clients during musical interventions and measure effectiveness of sessions.
- Communicate with clinicians and direct care staff as needed.
- Provide weekly progress updates to treatment team as needed.
- Complete documentation timely and according to established standards.
- Provide residential milieu support for clients in
- Perform other duties as
- Bachelor’s degree in music therapy required.
- Master’s degree in clinical, expressive arts, music therapy or related field
- Board registered (APC, LAPC, ASW, AMFT) or licensed in the state in which services are provided preferred.
- CBMT credentialed as Music Therapist-Board Certified (MT-BC) preferred, pursuing credential required.
- Experience working with young adults/adolescents in a behavioral health setting
Benefit Options Include
- Medical/Dental/Vision
- Company paid life insurance
- Paid time off including sick time
- Voluntary Short term and long-term disability
- 401K with company match
- Flexible spending accounts
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Student Loan Repayment
Newport Healthcare provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Newport Healthcare is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity, including providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with a disability. Applicants with a physical or mental disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process please email accommodations@newportacademy.com for assistance.
For more information on Equal Opportunity, please click here Equal Employment Opportunity Posters
Salary : $55,521 - $72,579
