Child Life Specialist
About The Position
The Child Life group promotes the continuous development of children to optimize their responses to medical care, to minimize psychological stress and trauma, and to increase understanding and coping with illness and health care experiences. Child Life provides children with opportunities for gaining a sense of mastery, for play, for learning, for self-expression, for family involvement and for peer interaction. As members of the health care team, child life staff advocate for children and families in ambulatory and inpatient settings. They serve as resources to all staff and to the community on issues related to child development and child health experiences. The Child Life Specialist focus is to promote the continuous development of children to optimize their responses to medical care, to minimize psychological stress and trauma, and to increase understanding and coping with illness and health care experience.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required in child life or child development/developmental psychology concentration.
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required.
- Child life certification preferred at time of hire otherwise required within first year of hire.
- 480 hour child life internship with supervision by a CCLS.
- Specific child life specialist jobs may require a minimum number years of work experience.
- Previous working experience with children and families.
Nice To Haves
- Master's degree preferred.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- retirement
- other fringe benefits
- Positions that require night, weekend or on-call work may be eligible for shift differentials or premium pay.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
