Music therapist

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Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education, and research across three campuses in the Northeast of Melbourne and state-wide. We have a highly engaged, diverse, and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal of helping people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

About Wellness and Supportive Care 

The integrated model of multidisciplinary care within Cancer Services relies on a dynamic, appropriately qualified, and skilled team to support patients undergoing care in both the Inpatient and Ambulatory settings, with a key focus on Integrated Wellness and Supportive Care.

About  Arts in Healthcare

This is part of the integrated multidisciplinary care within Cancer Services and is integral to the Wellness and Supportive care model. The program focuses on enabling meaning-making through creative interventions to help patients and families make sense of their experiences. Creativity is at the heart of the program, and it is fundamental to human knowledge, identity, and personal narratives.

About the role

The successful music therapist must be able to work within a multidisciplinary context and demonstrate experience in planning and delivering appropriate evidence-based music therapy interventions and support to patients and carers in oncology settings. This clinical-focused role works across both inpatient and outpatient settings.

A regular day will see you:

• Planning and delivering tailored, high-quality music therapy services to cancer patients and their carers individually or in groups
• Participating in Wellness and Supportive Care team activities, including attending meetings, assisting in generating referrals and performing service evaluations.
• Participating in and contributing to relevant multidisciplinary team meetings
• Delivering in-service education to ward staff and clinical teams to educate, generate referrals and provide engagement and connection

About you

To be successful in this role, you'll bring with you:

• An approved degree in Music Therapy or a postgraduate degree in Music Therapy.
• Current registration with the Australian Music Therapy Association.
• Minimum three years of clinical experience as a Music Therapist
• Specialist knowledge and experience in Oncology
• Ability to assess clients’ needs and priorities to aid the development of appropriate music therapy interventions and supports and refer to other programs and supports as required.
• Ability to prioritise workloads, work independently and within a multidisciplinary team environment

Our benefits

Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:

• Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging benefits, for living expenses, meals and holiday accommodation
• A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounts on fitness memberships and health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program
• Mentoring and career development opportunities
• Onsite childcare, easy access via public transport and car parking

Work with us!

We are committed to cultural safety and health equity for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People. We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies, and abilities. We welcome and support applications from talented people identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, people with disability, neurodiverse people, LGBTQIA+ and people of all ages and cultures.

If you feel this role is right for you, we encourage your early application. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews may take place prior to the closing date. This means we reserve the right to close a job ad prior to the advertised closing date.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working With Children Check. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring manager: Ashley Bigaran at Ashley.BIGARAN@austin.org.au

Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the position description for further details.

Application closing date: 17 October 2024