Child Life Specialist

Hackensack Meridian Health•Hackensack, NJ

8d•$56,430•Onsite

About The Position

The Child Life Specialist implements child life care providing a safe and nurturing environment where children and adolescents can enrich coping skills, address psychosocial needs, and increase understanding of issues related to medical experiences. This is an onsite position. Inpatient pediatric hematology-oncology experience is preferred. The hours are Monday-Friday 9 AM-5:30 PM

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Child Life or related field.
Completion of Child Life Internship.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Proficient computer skills that include but are not limited to Google Suite and/or Microsoft Office platforms.
Must acquire and maintain competencies, certifications and continuing education in order to meet any facility accreditation or individual licensing requirements.

Nice To Haves

Inpatient pediatric hematology-oncology experience is preferred.
Certified Child Life Specialist.

Responsibilities

Assesses psychosocial and developmental needs of pediatric patients and develops care accordingly.
Participates in interdisciplinary team rounding on assigned units.
Educates families about the patient's developmental and coping responses to illness and hospitalization.
Provides individual and/or group support for children and adolescents inpatient and outpatient.
Provides Child Life Services to patient and family members in accordance with the Association of Child Life Professionals (ACLP).
Maintains records of practices and tracks trends for reporting as requested.
Works in collaboration and communicates with the treatment team to enhance care to patients.
Completes timely documentation in EPIC as required.
Task supervises volunteers, child life assistant or activities assistant.
Provides supervision to child life students in accordance with department, educational site and ACLP standards.
Maintains child friendly and safe playrooms as designated.
Participates in team programming, i.e. task forces and committees within department or hospital.
Assists with Child Life and CH Foundation events.
Identifies the needs of the patient population served and modifies and delivers care that is specific to those needs (i.e., age. Culture, hearing and/or visually impaired, etc.). This process includes communicating with the patient, parent and/or primary caregiver(s) at their level (developmental/age, educational, literacy, etc.).
Provide education about child life services to team members.
Other duties and/or projects as assigned.
Adheres to HMH Organizational competencies and standards of behavior.