Therapeutic Musician

Therapeutic Musician (3307494)

Following the National Standards Board for Therapeutic Musicians (NSBTM), the Certified Therapeutic Musician (CTM) will use the inherent healing elements of live music and sound by playing live acoustic music (played or sung) and specifically tailor it to patient’s immediate need.

The Certified Therapeutic Musician will provide one-on-one Palliative Care to Newton-Wellesley Hospital patients within the hospital, focusing on a single patient at a time. Music will be provided as a service to promote healing, not as entertainment. The CTM will have skills in making unobtrusive subjective and objective observational assessments in order to tailor music performed to individual patient’s needs. Patients have the right to refuse and have no obligation to talk or interact in any way with the musician.

Therapeutic music will be offered to appropriate adult patients (as determined in collaboration with the Lead Social Worker of the Division of Palliative Care) followed by the Division of Palliative Care. There may be opportunities to also provide therapeutic music to families, caregivers, and providers who are visiting/caring for patients receiving Palliative Care services.

• Performs unobtrusive objective and subjective observational assessments of assigned patients with the goal of providing live music (using modality with which musician is trained) to promote healing based on the patient’s immediate needs. Observational assessments will be done before, during, and after music is played.
• Collaborates with Lead Social Worker of Division of Palliative Care to appropriately identify patients for CTM intervention
• Reports back to Lead Social Worker using format devised collaboratively to track interventions performed and observed outcomes
• Use hospital EMR to obtain pertinent Palliative Care patient list
• Any additional responsibilities within scope of expertise as assigned by supervisor/Division Chief
• Stays up to date with any hospital-required learning modules to maintain ability to provide direct-patient care

Hospital units with associated risk of exposure to pathogens (appropriate precautions will be provided and followed per hospital policy).

• Therapeutic music certification through one of the NSBTM accredited certification programs:
  • CCM
    - Certified Clinical Musician for the Clinical Musician Certification Program
  • CMP
    - Certified Music Practitioner for the Music for Healing and Transition Program
• Completed 80 hours or equivalent of Classroom training hours
• Minimum of 100-125 hours of clinical practicum/fieldwork/internship hours in hospital and hospice environments (with minimum of 45 hours of direct individual bedside musical delivery and minimum of 100 patient sessions)
• Maintains continuing professional education requirements of 40 hours every four years

• Must be able to ambulate throughout hospital units/buildings and maintain responsibility for transporting own personal instrument and associated equipment (appropriate accommodations per ADA guidelines will be provided)

Mass General Brigham is an Equal Opportunity Employer & by embracing diverse skills, perspectives and ideas, we choose to lead. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law.