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Allegiant Hospice
West Allis, Wisconsin

Music Therapist

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Job Description

PRN Hospice Music Therapist

  • Make a Difference Through the Power of Music
  • Allegiant Hospice is seeking a compassionate and dedicated PRN Music Therapist to join our hospice care team.

As a Hospice Music Therapist, you will use music to bring comfort, connection, peace, and meaningful moments to patients and families during one of life’s most important journeys.

Responsibilities Include

  • Provide individualized music therapy to hospice patients based on their needs, preferences, and goals
  • Use music to support comfort, relaxation, emotional expression, reminiscence, and quality of life
  • Collaborate with nurses, social workers, chaplains, aides, and other members of the interdisciplinary hospice team
  • Support patients and families with compassionate, person-centered care
  • Complete appropriate documentation related to music therapy visits

We’re Looking for Someone Who Is

  • Compassionate and comfortable working with patients facing end-of-life needs
  • Dependable, flexible, and able to work independently
  • An excellent communicator and collaborative team member
  • Passionate about using music to create meaningful experiences for patients and families

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Music Therapy from an accredited/approved music therapy program.
  • Board Certified Music Therapist (MT-BC) credential through the Certification Board for Music Therapists (CBMT), or eligible to obtain certification within an established timeframe.
  • Completion of required clinical internship/training in music therapy.
  • Previous experience in hospice, palliative care, geriatrics, home health, or healthcare preferred, but not necessarily required.
  • Ability to assess patient needs and develop individualized music therapy interventions and goals.
  • Comfortable providing services to patients with advanced illness and end-of-life needs and supporting their families.
  • Strong interpersonal, communication, and documentation skills.
  • Ability to work independently while collaborating with the hospice interdisciplinary team.

Reliable transportation, valid driver’s license, and automobile insurance as required for traveling to patient homes/facilities.

Key Responsibilities

Provide individualized music therapy to hospice patients to support comfort, emotional expression, and quality of life. Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team of nurses, social workers, and chaplains to deliver compassionate, person-centered care.

Qualifications

Education
Bachelor degree

Certifications

Board Certification

Key Skills

Patient assessmentInterdisciplinary collaborationEmotional support

Counselor Career Context

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 36% are remote, 30% have no call, 64% require no weekends.

Mental Health Therapy pay on WeekdayDoc is down 1.2% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Wisconsin is 94.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.7% of Wisconsin clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks36 jobs

401k / retirement match
86%
CME allowance
39%
Sign-on bonus
25%
Loan repayment
22%
PSLF eligible
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Work-life snapshot

median 6.2this job 4.8
Better work-life than 40% of Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 8,029 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in West Allis

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$281k
Typical market rent
$1,406/mo
Residents’ average commute
21 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
96.9
State income tax
Up to 7.7%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.