Child Life Specialist

Shriners Children's • St. Louis, MO

47d

About The Position

The Child Life Specialist provides comprehensive, purposeful, developmentally appropriate, and culturally sensitive, family-centered care. This care is focused on meeting the psychosocial and developmental needs of children and families. Provides evaluation and therapeutic services, direct patient care and patient/family education, in an efficient manner. Services may include therapeutic play, preparation, procedural support, special events, and reintegration programming.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Child Life, Child Development or Related Field
• Certified Child Life Specialist (CCLS) Required within 6 months

Nice To Haves

• Masters degree in Child Life, Child Development or related field
• 1 Year Child Life Experience

Responsibilities

• Performs an individualized assessment to collect comprehensive and accurate data necessary to assess development, temperament, coping style, medical plan cultural preferences & practices, and available social supports in order to develop an individualized treatment plan.
• Demonstrates competency in assessment and utilization of therapeutic play techniques, in an age appropriate manner to formulate a treatment plan for optimal level of improvement, positive outcomes, and a period for meeting short and long term goals.
• Plans and implements an individualized treatment plan that identifies goals and evidence-based treatment intervention strategies, with an emphasis on psychosocial and emotional needs of the patients and their families.
• Educates patients and family members about medical care, hospitalization, discharge, and reentry into the community. Provides emotional support and educational materials and techniques to increase knowledge and understanding of medical procedure and the hospital experience.
• Participates in interdisciplinary patient care planning.
• Ensures that intervention is compliant with department policy and the professional standards of practice.
• Utilizes electronic medical record applications to document relevant patient and family information. Documents patient assessment, goals, treatment plan, participation and progress, including significant occurrences, accurately and within established timelines and utilizing appropriate forms/formats per department policies and procedures.
• Ensures proper communication within the multidisciplinary team to ensure patient goals and treatment plan are being implemented.
• Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team to contribute to overall treatment and discharge planning.
• Ensure interdisciplinary communication and serves as a liaison between departments for benefit of the organization.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level