Music Therapist-Cancer & Hematology Center

The Faris Foundation Music Therapist

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?

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree Music Therapy required
• Master's Degree Music Therapy preferred
• MT-BC - Music Therapy-Board Certification from Board for Music Therapists required

About Us

Since 1954, Texas Children's has been leading the charge in patient care, education and research to accelerate health care for children and women around the world. When you love what you do, it truly shows in the smiles of our patient families, employees and our numerous accolades such as being consistently ranked as the best children's hospital in Texas, and among the top in the nation by U.S. News & World Report as well as recognition from Houston Business Journal as one of this city's Best Places to Work for ten consecutive years.

Texas Children's comprehensive health care network includes our primary hospital in the Texas Medical Center with expertise in over 40 pediatric subspecialties; the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI); the Feigin Tower for pediatric research; Texas Children ' s Pavilion for Women, a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility focusing on high-risk births; Texas Children ' s Hospital West Campus, a community hospital in suburban West Houston; Texas Children ' s Hospital The Woodlands, the first hospital devoted to children ' s care for communities north of Houston; and Texas Children's Hospital North Austin, the new state-of-the-art facility providing world-class pediatric and maternal care to Austin and Central Texas families. We have also created Texas Children ' s Health Plan, the nation's first HMO focused on children; Texas Children's Pediatrics, the largest pediatric primary care network in the country; Texas Children ' s Urgent Care clinics that specialize in after-hours care tailored specifically for children; and a global health program that is channeling care to children and women all over the world. Texas Children ' s Hospital is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine, one of the largest, most diverse and successful pediatric programs in the nation.

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