Music Therapist - New Graduate

The Royal Children's Hospital; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 64,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary Packaging

Employee Assistance Program

Fitness Passport

Early Learning Centre childcare

Parkville location

Job summary

The Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne is seeking a Music Therapist for a full-time fixed-term role in the Child Life Therapy and Music Therapy department. The one-year contract provides music therapy services to infants, children and adolescents with various medical conditions.

You will collaborate with medical, nursing and allied health staff to support patients’ hospital experiences, supported by a base salary of $70,590 per annum plus superannuation, and a range of staff benefits.

Qualifications

• Excellent music skills.
• Current Registered Music Therapist (RMT) status with the Australian Music Therapy Association.
• Thorough knowledge of music therapy for infants, children and young people; including neurodevelopment and mental health needs.
• Effective communication strategies to maintain excellent interdisciplinary team dynamics.
• Ability to work in the best interests of children and families in a family centred way.

Responsibilities

• Excellent music therapy services as required provided to children and families presenting with a broad range of complex needs across a variety of specialty areas.
• Actively participate as part of a team to ensure ongoing excellence in service delivery and contribute to continuous improvement.
• Engagement in life-long learning through participation in professional development activities.

Job description

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The Royal Children’s Hospital’s (RCH) Vision is “A world where all kids thrive”.

RCH is a cornerstone member of the Melbourne Children’s Campus, partnering with Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics and The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation.

RCH has cared for the children and young people of Victoria for more than 150 years since it was founded in 1870. A full range of paediatrics and adolescent health services are provided plus tertiary and quaternary care for the most critically ill and medically complex patients in Victoria, Tasmania, southern NSW and other states around Australia and overseas. The Hospital has more than 6,000 staff, a budget of $850M, 12 wards and 350 beds. Annually, the RCH has 300,000+ Specialist Clinic appointments, 90,000+ Emergency Department presentations and 20,000 elective surgeries.

RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact.

For further Information on RCH is available here .

About the role:

This is a Full time fixed term position within the Child Life Therapy and Music Therapy department. The FTC will be for a one year period.

Music Therapy at RCH is part of Allied Health and consists of a team of Registered Music Therapists who provide clinical music therapy services to infants, children and adolescents with a range of medical conditions. The team of Music Therapists support patients using targeted therapy sessions to assist with aspects of their hospital experience. The aim of Music Therapy is to use the experience of music to provide treatment support, mental health support and/or neurodevelopment. This is achieved through a range of face-to-face services and resourcing. You will be responsible for providing excellent music therapy services to patients and families while working in close collaboration with music therapy staff, medical, nursing and other allied health staff.

Classification for this position will be GA3 (base salary $70,590 per annum plus superannuation)

What you’ll achieve:

• Excellent music therapy services as required provided to children and families presenting with a broad range of complex needs across a variety of specialty areas
• Actively participate as part of a team to ensure ongoing excellence in service delivery and contribute to continuous improvement
• Engagement in life-long learning through participation in professional development activities

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Excellent music skills
• Current Registered Music Therapist (RMT) status with the Australian Music Therapy Association
• Thorough knowledge of music therapy for infants, children and young people; including neurodevelopment and mental health needs
• Effective communication strategies to maintain excellent interdisciplinary team dynamics
• Ability to work in the best interests of children and families in a family centred way

What we Offer:

• Salary Packaging – Increase your take home pay!
• Employee Assistance Program
• Ability to join Fitness Passport - Your pass to an extensive choice of fitness facilities
• Early Learning Centre childcare
• Parkville location and close to public transport

Other requirements:

• Current National Criminal Record Check, or willing to obtain
• Valid Working with Children Check
• Compliance with RCHs “Staff Immunisation - Prevention of Vaccine Preventable Diseases” procedure

RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact. We offerthe opportunity towork in world-class facilities, surrounded by Royal Park and only a short tram trip from the heart of Melbourne city.

We also offer staff benefits such as discounted staff parking, salary packaging, and an award-winning health and wellbeing program.

The RCH is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse background, all members of the LGBTQI community and people with disability.

It is a requirement of your employment that you be vaccinated against Influenza annually for Category A and B roles, in compliance with any public health orders in place at the relevant time, unless you have a medical exception in line with those public health orders, which has been accepted by The Royal Children’s Hospital. Applicants will be required to provide their Australian Government Immunisation History Statement, it is a requirement of the RCH to collect, record and hold vaccination information.

It is also a requirement of your employment that you comply with any direction given by The Royal Children’s Hospital that you be vaccinated against, or prove immunity to, any other disease, unless you have a relevant exemption, and offers of employment are conditional on successful completion of background checks including reference checks.

Applications close Monday, 14th of November 2026