Art Therapist / Music Therapist – Memory Care Area – Casual - Bristal Assisted Living

Looking for a career where you can make a difference in someone else's life? Where opportunities abound to advance your future, both personally and professionally? The Bristal Assisted Living is the place for you. You'll thrive in a premier senior care organization that values you as an individual — not just your experience and skillsets, but your unique talents and energy. You'll enrich the community in which you work, and that community will enrich you. We call what we do at The Bristal "hospitality with a higher purpose." We know you'll make an impactful difference. Because the difference is you. Come join us!

We are seeking a compassionate and talented Art/Music Therapist to provide interactive art therapy to residents with Alzheimer's disease and dementia in our dedicated Reflections Memory Care Neighborhood. You must have the ability to stimulate and engage our residents using music, drawing, painting and other disciplines of art, and present these tools in ways that are fun and therapeutically effective. We hold our residents in the highest regard, especially those facing difficult memory challenges, so we expect you to bring a genuinely tender and devoted touch to your work. We look for consummate professionals with a true desire, a calling even, to impact their lives in positive ways. Prior experience working in a senior population, or with those with Alzheimer's disease and dementia is desired. Your role is essential to the care of residents who choose to call The Bristal home. The loving attention you bring to the art and music therapy services you provide is fundamental to the quality of life and the general wellbeing of our memory care residents every day.

Casual schedule includes one weekend day shift per week (Sun-Mon 9:30am-5:30pm).

The ideal candidate will have the following skills/qualifications:

• Experience in Art/Music Therapy
• Background in memory care working with those with Alzheimer's disease and dementia
• Exceptional musical/artistic abilities, creativity, imagination and enthusiasm
• Maintaining a mature, patient, calm and respectful demeanor at all times is a must
• Ability to create a trusting, open, kindhearted atmosphere that encourages learning and participation
• A strong empathy with and commitment to helping improve the lives of seniors each day

New Jersey locations: Must have or be willing to get a COVID-19 vaccine, subject to legal accommodations