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Job Summary : The Manager, Integrated Therapies is responsible for leadership, management, and strategic outcomes of the program in the designated area of responsibility to ensure program excellence, sustainability, and new service development utilizing a statewide service model.

Essential Functions:

+ Facilitates recruitment, training, and retention of music therapy staff consistent with NorthStar Care Community's vision, mission, and values.

+ Evaluation of music services through a variety of means such as home visits, conferences, and record reviews.

+ Provides feedback to staff, ensuring that both effective performance and delivery of quality care are reinforced.

+ Establishes and communicates job responsibilities, performance standards, priorities, and expectations to staff.

+ Responsible for recruiting, organizing, and implementing programs utilizing students, interns, and professionals.

+ Provides or demonstrates music therapy at various programs and in services as needed.

+ May make home visits as necessary for consultation or staff observation.

+ Assists with the growth and expansion of the music therapy program.

+ Manages resources to pre-determined financial margin.

+ Seeks/develops/implements new models of care to provide the highest quality/most efficient care for patients and families.

+ Responsible for interviewing, hiring, performance evaluation, disciplinary action, and termination of staff in collaboration with Human Resources.

+ Works in collaboration with AVP to develop short and long-term strategic goals for the program.

+ Participates in organizational committees and professional activities at the local, state, and national levels.

+ Follows established safety and infection control policies and procedures and participates in all required in-service training.

+ Serves on various committees as directed by AVP.

+ Works in collaboration with AVP to actively work with Foundation staff, and external donors to acquire necessary funding to ensure program sustainability statewide.

+ Upholds the NorthStar Care Community Code of Conduct, policies, procedures, protocols and processes and all regulatory and legal requirements.

+ Models the NorthStar standards to care for every person, every time, 100% of the time.

Qualifications:

+ Must possess a current State of Michigan Masters of Social Work License (LMSW) or be a Board Certified Music Therapist with a Bachelor’s degree (Master’s degree preferred).

+ Minimum three (3) years of hospice or healthcare supervisory experience is required.

+ Ability to seek out new methods to incorporate integrated therapies into patients' plan of care .

+ Must have a basic understanding of the elderly and aging process; experience with end-of-life care or death and dying preferred.

+ Supervisory experience of interns or staff required.

+ Ability to make independent decisions and good communications skills.

+ A licensed driver with automobile that is insured in accordance with organization requirements and is in good working order, if assigned to patients in community home environment.

+ Proof of current tuberculin testing required. Patient contact will not be allowed until tuberculin clearance is documented.

+ The physical and sensory demands of the position include vision, effective speech and hearing for extensive telephone contact; repetitive motion; traveling; driving or riding in motor vehicle ; standing, sitting, walking, bending, reaching, and stretching; lifting up to forty-five (45) pounds unassisted and the ability to assist in lifting patients using appropriate lifting techniques and/or devices.

+ Must have reliable transportation to be able to travel and maintain the rigors of a busy schedule.

+ Frequently works variable hours/days; activities and workload may require extended days.

+ Must be eligible to work in the United States.