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Salt Lake City, Utah

Music Therapist PRN

CounselorNo weekendsNo nightsPer Diem

Listed compensation

$26.74-$41.28/hr

The week · per this posting · Monday – FridayWeekdays only

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Job Description

This position provides for a clinical and evidence-based use of music to meet the individualized healthcare goals of patients through individual, group or environmental intervention.

Job Specifics

Application Requirements: Please upload a current resume that includes your work history and relevant licenses or certifications.

Benefits Eligible: No

FTE: PRN

Shift: Days, Monday - Friday

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Essential Functions

  • Develop and provide appropriate music therapy interventions for patients and families.
  • Assist in managing and purchasing music therapy supplies and inventory.
  • Manage time and prioritize patient care and tasks.
  • Document music therapy interventions in patient charts in a timely and thorough manner, including initial assessments and progress notes.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the appropriate scope of music therapy within a clinical setting.
  • Collaborate with medical team, nursing, and other family support service departments, which could include presenting educational in-services about music therapy within the medical setting.
  • Participates in selection and training of new hires.
  • Adheres to the music therapy code of ethics.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Music Therapy (Approved by the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA))
  • Board Certification as a Music Therapist (within 6 months of hire).

Preferred Qualifications

  • State Certification as a Music Therapist.
  • One year of experience in a clinical setting
  • Master’s Degree

Physical Requirements

Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.

Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.

Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate equipment and materials with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, and art material use.

Need to walk and push up to 50 pounds of supplies and equipment on rolling cart.

Location: Intermountain Health Primary Childrens Hospital

Work City

Salt Lake City

Work State

Utah

Scheduled Weekly Hours

0

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

$26.74 - $41.28

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

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By applying for a position with Intermountain, I acknowledge that I will comply with all applicable Intermountain policies and expectations.

If applying for a remote or hybrid role, this includes remote work expectations related to confidentiality, information security, work schedules, conflicts of interest, and use of company equipment.

I further acknowledge that outside employment or activities may not interfere with job responsibilities or create a conflict of interest with Intermountain.

Actual or reasonably perceived conflicts may be grounds for disqualification from consideration or, if hired, corrective action up to and including termination of employment.

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Key Responsibilities

Develop and implement evidence-based music therapy interventions to meet the individualized healthcare goals of patients. Collaborate with medical teams and nursing staff while maintaining thorough clinical documentation and managing therapy supplies.

Requirements

Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Music Therapy and Board Certification as a Music Therapist within six months of hire. Preferred qualifications include a Master’s degree and one year of clinical experience.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure

Key Skills

Clinical assessmentInterdisciplinary collaborationInventory managementPatient educationEthics compliance

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Music Therapist PRN at Intermountain Health a 6.4 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) — ranked against 7,961 active Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements, no night shifts.

Counselor Career Context

Of the 40 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 80% are remote, 18% have no call, 80% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Utah is 98.9 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$71k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $72k in an average-cost state. 58.6% of Utah clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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  • No weekends
  • No nights

Living in Salt Lake City

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$590k
Typical market rent
$1,603/mo
State income tax
Up to 4.8%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026).

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

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