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Compensation: Currently $59.20 per direct contact client hour. This part-time position as an independently contracted service provider, provides opportunity for growth.
Application Deadline: Ongoing until position is filled.
Start Date: Immediate.
To apply: Electronically submit a cover letter and resume, relevant supporting materials, and contact information for two references to:
Office of the Dean, dean[at]vcm.bc.ca
Attention: Dr. Johanne Brodeur, Ph.D., MTA, MTD Head
As a member of the Conservatory’s faculty, the successful applicant will be an integral part of the growth and success of the Music Therapy Department and must be passionate about bringing positive change to the community. All faculty are independently contracted as service providers and paid hourly according to established fee grid. The Conservatory’s Music Therapy program is in high demand and offers therapists the opportunity to build out their practice at the Conservatory as desired while maintaining a healthy work/life balance.
The Conservatory provides well-equipped therapy studios including a multi-sensory studio. For further information about us see our Music Therapy pages.
- Experience focused primarily on children and youth, including strategic interventions for participants with ASD.
- Extensive musicianship skills.
- Musical aptitude includes familiarity with age-appropriate music repertoire.
- Music therapy interventions include extensive knowledge of intervention strategies for children and youth, use of superior improvisational skills and creativity, as well as more structured model sessions.
- Interaction and communication with participants, parents, caregivers, and staff is clear and effective.
- Ability to take initiative, problem solve, and to work as part of a multi-disciplinary music therapy faculty, complemented with a strong work ethic built on enthusiasm, positive energy, mutual respect, sensibility, sense of responsibility, and driven by a passion for the field of music therapy and for learning.
- A minimum of a recognized bachelor’s degree in music therapy.
- MTA status.
- Must provide their own transportation to and from client locations. Note: Compensation includes additional Mileage Fee per site visit.
