Temporary Part-Time Music Therapist

Oaknoll has a temporary opening for a part-time Music Therapist! As a Music Therapist you do more than engage our residents through music you bring confidence through building musical skills you encourage joy through enabling creative expression and you CREATE home by the moments created through music. Oaknoll is a not-for-profit community that provides resident-centered care and services through our CREATE culture.

CREATE is an acronym for our values: caring respect enthusiasm awareness teamwork and encouragement. We believe that people should experience joyful active and connected lives as they age. We believe people should have the opportunity to receive competent caring and compassionate health care when they need it. We believe our community is both special and unique because of the people who live here the people who work here and the relationships that they build together. We strive to make the lives of our residents and our staff meaningful and fulfilling. If you want to share in these values and the relationships that they allow us to build we are looking for YOU!

Oaknoll is seeking a part-time Music Therapist to join our team on a temporary basis. The position is for 8 hours a week for approximately 12 weeks. Responsibilities for this position include planning and implementing both group and one-on-one music therapy sessions according to residents interests cognitive and physical abilities and teaching guitar piano or other instruments through personalized music therapy sessions.

Why choose Oaknoll Not only are we a community focused not-for-profit but we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: competitive pay paid time off retirement plan with company contributions 40% off employee meals free use of our gyms and pool weekly access to a Nurse Practitioner free of charge onsite parking tuition reimbursement scholarship program and student loan repayment assistance along with medical dental vision life FSAs and voluntary short-term and long-term disability insurances for eligible employees.

Come check us out and learn why Oaknoll is right for you!

About Oaknoll

Oaknoll Retirement Residence is an independent not-for-profit continuing care retirement community in Iowa City IA. We provide resident-centered service driven by our values of caring respect enthusiasm awareness teamwork and encouragement. Were proud of our excellent reputation as a premier place to live and work. Theres a strong sense of family at Oaknoll so coming to work is like coming home.

Oaknoll Retirement Residence is an Equal Opportunity Employer that welcomes and encourages all applicants to apply regardless of age race sex religion color national origin disability veteran status sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression or other reason prohibited by law.

• Candidates must hold a bachelors degree in Music Therapy.
• Candidates must be a Certified Music Therapist approved by the American Music Therapy Association.
• Candidates must demonstrate fundamental computer literacy.
• Candidates should have experience with aging populations and training in the care of persons with dementia or other age-related diseases.