Creative/Expressive Arts Therapist - Central Regional Hospital
Listed compensation
$43k-$65k
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- Employment & setting
- Full-Time
- Call expectations
- Includes call
- Weekends
- Includes weekends
Job description
Join State of North Carolina as a Creative/Expressive Arts Therapist – M-F, State Benefits in Butner, North Carolina, United States.
Benefits & Compensation
- Salary: $43K - $65K
- Pension plan offered.
- Health Insurance
- Paid Sick Leave
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Holidays
- NCFlex Program
- Paid Parental Leave
- Community Service Leave
Work Schedule
- Full-Time position.
- Weekend coverage may be required.
Apply to join State of North Carolina as a Creative/Expressive Arts Therapist – M-F, State Benefits.
Key Responsibilities
Provide art or music therapy through group and individual sessions for adult, child, and adolescent patients in a psychiatric setting. Collaborate with treatment teams to ensure clinically sound, evidence-based care while supervising students and volunteers.
Requirements
Requires a bachelor's degree in music therapy, music education with equivalency, or a creative/expressive arts field. Candidates must meet specific credentialing requirements such as MT-BC, ATR, R-DMT, or RDT to be preferred.
Qualifications
- Education
- Bachelor degree
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Certifications
Key Skills
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Creative/Expressive Arts Therapist - Central Regional Hospital at State of North Carolina a 6.0 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 35% of all Mental Health Therapy counselor listings evaluated on our platform.
Counselor Career Context
Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 34% are remote, 14% have no call, 50% require no weekends.
Mental Health Therapy pay on WeekdayDoc is up 3.4% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).
The cost-of-living index for North Carolina is 94.3 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$54k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $58k in an average-cost state. 59.2% of North Carolina clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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