Posted 10/18/07

Job title: Music Therapist

Hours: Full time/40 hours per week (Tuesday-Saturday)

Salary: Competitive (based on qualifications) with benefits

Facility: Children’s Cancer Association – Non-profit organization’s Music
Rx program provides free therapeutic music services to four local
children’s hospital and one long-term care facility for medically fragile children. 
Portland, Oregon/Vancouver, Washington

Qualifications: MT-BC (if not board certified, must obtain certification within 6 months of hire date)

Population: Pediatrics, Neo-natal, Rehabilitation

Starting Date: December, 2007/January 2008

Will interview candidates at National Music Therapy Conference in Louisville, Kentucky

Description of position: Provide individual and group therapeutic music services to hospitalized children and their families.  Duties will also include volunteer recruitment and data management; project research and development; presentations/in-services; management support of Music Rx equipment inventory.  Successful candidate must be able to operate independently and carry out a variety of program management tasks without supervision.  Must be professional, organized, flexible, and have the ability to work well with a variety of staff, hospital personnel, volunteers, musicians, patients and families.