Music Therapist

This position offers a salary range based on relevant skills, qualifications, and experience.

About the role

Thom Child & Family Services, located in Norwood, MA, is seeking a board-certified Music Therapist to join their team. As an Early Intervention Music Therapist, you will provide home and community-based early intervention services to infants and toddlers (birth to 3 years) who have or are at risk for developmental delays, along with their families. You will partner with parents and caregivers to deliver individualized, evidence-based services that prioritize families’ needs, culture, and values.

Responsibilities

• Participate in multidisciplinary team assessments of a client’s developmental status.
• Provide direct services and developmentally appropriate activities for children aged 0–3 and their families.
• Contribute to the development of the Individual Family Service Plan (IFSP), identifying goals, objectives, and strategies related to the child’s development.
• Complete progress notes, reports, assessments, and correspondence as required.
• Deliver individual and group intervention for infants and toddlers with developmental delays or risks in cognitive, adaptive behavior, social-emotional, self-care, fine motor, gross motor, and communication development.
• Assess family and child strengths, resources, concerns, and progress.
• Act as a service coordinator by scheduling, developing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating intervention plans for each family on your caseload, ensuring adherence to procedures and timelines.
• Provide supportive professional assistance to families and facilitate parent-child interactions to encourage development.
• Assist families in advocating for their child.

Requirements

• Degree and professional credentials/board certification as a Registered Music Therapist.
• Knowledge of family systems and early childhood development.
• Ability to build meaningful, therapeutic relationships with children, parents/caregivers, and community partners.
• Commitment to delivering individualized and culturally humble services.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and organizational skills.
• Adherence to confidentiality and professional boundaries standards.
• Strong computer and documentation skills.
• Current driver’s license and reliable transportation.
• Bilingual/bicultural skills are a plus.

Benefits

• Flexible schedules: Full-time, part-time, per diem, and family hours.
• Health and dental insurance, including fitness benefits and a wellness incentive program.
• Generous vacation, personal, and sick time (80–96 hours annually).
• Paid holidays (10–12 days).
• 403(b) retirement plan with employer matching.
• Section 125 flexible benefits plan (medical and dependent care).
• Employer-sponsored long-term disability, life, and accidental death and dismemberment insurance.
• Productivity bonus plan.
• Continuing education leave and paid conference fees.
• Paid professional license renewal fees.
• Clinical supervision, mentoring, and team support.
• Mileage reimbursement.
• Optional benefits: short-term disability, accident, and cancer insurance.

Pay

$51,000–$60,000 yearly salary.