Music Therapist - Singapore - St Luke's Hospital

St Luke's Hospital

Verified Company

Singapore

1 week ago

Posted by:

Wei Jie

beBee Recruiter

Responsibilities:

Provide quality and professional Music Therapy services at Inpatient and Outpatient Services. These include but are not limited to individual and group music therapy
Plan, review and assess progress with clear documentation
Set relevant goals and objectives with the patient and their caregivers (where applicable)
Execute music interventions to improve patient care such as expression, attention, mood, participation, reduction of undesirable behaviour, relieve symptoms, enhance spiritual or psychological comfort as well as assist in gross/fine motor and communication deficits
Provide clinical reports and records on the following according to hospital standards:
Initial assessment
Review and subsequent assessments
Therapy goals
Weekly review therapy plan
Treatment updates
Discharge planning (with measure outcomes)
Participate in case conferences, team meetings and family meetings
Carry out proper hand over when required
Ensure safety measures to protect patients during therapy
Discuss cases with multidisciplinary team
Develop and implement more appropriate treatment plans and new/modified programs when necessary

Requirements:

Have prior experience with geriatric rehabilitation and dementia. NMT training an asset.
Proficiency with keyboard, guitar, percussion and vocal ability and familiarity with wide range of music genres (familiarity with Asian repertoire and geriatric population is an asset).
Respect a wide range of cultural or spiritual practices and beliefs
Able to work independently with good communication and documentation skills
Must have an interest to work with the elderly in a hospital environment
Ability to communicate in vernacular languages is an asset

Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent

Salary:
$3, $5,000.00 per month

Schedule: