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Music Therapist
Logan Central
Empower adolescents as a Music Therapist within our specialist multidisciplinary team at Metro South Health.
This role is a frontline role that provides essential frontline services. Join an innovative Child & Youth Mental Health Service team in Logan Central on a temporary part-time basis to deliver evidence-based expressive therapy, drive patient-centered care, and support recovery outcomes for young people.
Job details
| Position status | Fixed Term Temporary |
|---|---|
| Position type | Part-time |
| Occupational group | Health - Allied Health/Clinical Support |
| Classification | HP3 |
| Workplace Location | Brisbane - South |
| Job ad reference | QLD/MS11696471 |
| Closing date | 26-Nov-2026 |
| Job duration | up to 11 months |
| Contact person | Lauren Spriggens |
| Contact details | 07 3489 2600 Access the National Relay Service |
Your new role:
As a Music Therapist within the Adolescent Day Program (Child & Youth Mental Health Service), you will deliver specialized expressive therapy services to adolescents aged 13–18 experiencing severe, complex mental health conditions.
- Clinical Delivery: Conduct clinical assessments, therapeutic interventions, patient education, and discharge planning within a multidisciplinary recovery framework.
- Student & Staff Guidance: Supervise observational students and allied health assistants, while supporting undergraduate clinical placements under the guidance of senior staff.
- Caseload Management: Maintain accurate patient documentation, report service statistics, and manage time effectively across clinical and non-clinical priorities.
About you:
We are looking for an empathetic, collaborative, and qualified clinician who is passionate about empowering youth through evidence-based expressive therapy.
- Qualifications & Registrations: Possess a tertiary degree in Music Therapy with eligibility for registration with the Australian Music Therapy Association (AMTA), a valid Working with Children Blue Card, a current Class C driver licence, and required VPD vaccinations.
- Clinical Expertise: Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality, patient-centered expressive therapy assessments and interventions in an adolescent mental health setting.
- Communication & Collaboration: Strong interpersonal skills to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team, engage consumers and carers, and navigate complex interpersonal dynamics constructively.
- Growth & Initiative: A commitment to continuous professional development, active learning, and contributing to local service development initiatives.
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What we can offer you:
- We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
- We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
- We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
- You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.
About us:
The Adolescent Day Program (ADP) provides intensive and specialist multidisciplinary assessment and integrated treatment and rehabilitation to adolescents aged between 13 and 18 years of age with sever, complex and persistent mental health problems, often associated with complex development comorbidities and significant functional impairment across multiple domains.
The ADP is run in partnership with Education Queensland and provides educational and therapeutic group based interventions, as well as individual treatment within a recovery framework and in collaboration with consumers, their families/carers and other stakeholders.
INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE
Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.
We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.
We are better together.
Further information
We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.
Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.
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