Music Therapist, Thought Disorders Unit

Sheppard Pratt Careers; Elkridge (MD); On-site; USD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Sheppard Pratt Careers is seeking a licensed Music Therapist to join our in-person clinical team in Maryland. The position requires MS/MA in music therapy or an equivalent degree and current state licensure or certification (BC-MT, ACMT, CMT, or RMT).

The role involves developing treatment plans, providing individual and group music therapy, documenting EMR notes, and collaborating with a multidisciplinary staff to support patients across age groups.

Qualifications

• Requires Bachelor’s degree in music therapy from a program approved by the AMTA, plus 1-2 years related experience, or a Master’s degree in music therapy with 3-6 months related work experience.
• Must be licensed by the State Board to practice Music Therapy at appointment and continuously; one of BC-MT, ACMT, CMT or RMT.
• Strong interpersonal skills to interact with multidisciplinary staff, faculty, and patients from diverse backgrounds.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to creating a learning environment that values, empowers, enriches and supports patients/students and other staff.
• Develops a professional treatment plan that meets patient needs and aligns with the treatment team.
• Provides professional music therapy services to individuals and groups based on patient needs and diagnoses.
• Completes written documentation and data entry into the EMR to record assessments, progress, and discharge; reports observations to the treatment team.

Skills

Clinical psychology knowledge

Music theory knowledge

Basic computer skills

Education

Bachelor's in music therapy

Master's in music therapy

Tools

EMR software

Job description

Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8am-4pm | Job Location Type: In Person

Responsibilities:

Customer Relations

• Contributes in creating a learning environment that values, empowers, enriches and supports patients/students and other staff.

Patient Assessment/Treatment Planning

• Develops a professional treatment plan that meets patient needs and complements the services provided by other treatment team members.
• Applies knowledge of normal growth and development for specific patient population through the use of accepted conceptual principles, e.g. Erikson.

Provision of Treatment/Services

• Provides professional music treatment/services to individuals and groups based on the specific needs and diagnosis of the patient populations.

Documentation/Reporting

• Completes written documentation and data entry into the electronic medical records (EMR) to record initial patient assessment and ongoing treatment and progress through discharge in compliance with Hospital and program standards.
• Reports pertinent patient observations to treatment team.

Requirements:

• Work requires comprehensive knowledge of clinical psychology and music theory and practice and basic computer usage skills - acquired through a Bachelor’s degree in music therapy from a college or university program approved by the American Music Therapy Association plus 1-2 years related experience or through a Masters degree in music therapy from an accredited college or university plus 3-6 months related work experience.
• Must be licensed by the State Board of Examiners for Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and Music Therapists to practice Music Therapy at the time of appointment and continuously while holding the position. One of the following certifications is required at the time of appointment and continuously while holding the position: Must be certified by the Certification Board of Music Therapists (BC-MT) or hold the designations of ACMT, CMT or RMT.
• Work requires substantial interpersonal skills sufficient to interact effectively and professionally with multidisciplinary staff, faculty, and patients from a wide variety of diagnostic groups, cultural backgrounds, and functioning levels (51-80% of work time).
• Work requires a relatively high level of analytical skills sufficient to evaluate the effectiveness of treatment interventions and programs. Work also requires creative and adaptive modifications of treatment approaches and techniques where treatment objectives are difficult to achieve.
• Working with emotionally disturbed and often unpredictable patients, and exercising safety precautions frequently (21 – 50% of work time) produces a high level of mental/visual fatigue.
• Work requires talking, hearing, mid-range vision, depth perception, color vision and field of vision.

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