Child Life Assistant

Ihc Health Services-posted 7 months ago
$20 - $28/Yr
Part-time • Entry Level
Salt Lake City, UT
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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.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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