Child Life Assistant

Ihc Health Services • Salt Lake City, UT

220d • $20 - $28

About The Position

The Child Life Assistant interacts directly with pediatric patients, families, and other healthcare team members and facilitates age-appropriate activities to help make the healthcare experience easier for patients and families. Under the direction of a child life specialist, the child life assistant provides activities in a play setting that reduces patient and family distress, increases effective patient and family coping, fosters patient independence, and promotes optimum development. This role is designed as a career path toward other child development roles and most Child Life Assistants are working towards child life certification through the Association of Child Life Professionals while earning a degree and certifications.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience working with healthy children or children in a medical or hospital setting.
• Knowledge of child development.
• Computer experience in word processing, spreadsheets, and databases or similar applications.
• Able to work independently and be organized.
• Ability to work in a stressful environment related to patient needs including acute, chronic, and complex disease, and grief and bereavement.
• Maintains appropriate boundaries with patients and families.

Nice To Haves

• Associate or bachelor's degree.
• Working towards child life certification through the Association of Child Life Professionals.
• Work experience as a child life assistant.
• Completion of child life pre-internship/practicum.
• Completion of a 600-hour child life internship.
• Spanish speaking.

Responsibilities

• Accurately assesses and prioritizes developmental needs of the pediatric patient and family and updates child life specialist when patient needs are outside scope of practice.
• Develops, implements, advertises, and evaluates developmentally appropriate play/recreational activities and directs parents, students, and volunteers in providing developmentally appropriate toys to patients and families in play space.
• Screens and transports patients to play areas, completes appropriate check-in guidelines and policies to ensure child safety and assists in coordinating special events, holidays, and special visitors.
• Maintains a clean, safe environment in accordance with infection prevention and safety standards.
• Monitors and provides a supportive child-friendly environment in play spaces; supervises, orients, and trains students and volunteers as needed.
• Assists with ordering, receiving, organizing, and distributing supplies.
• Supervises and independently leads the facility 'Kids Clubhouse,' coordinating the work of the volunteers in those spaces.

Benefits

• Generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness.
• Tuition coverage paid directly to the academic institution through the PEAK program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Personal and Laundry Services
• Education Level: Associate degree