Child Life Specialist PRN
About The Position
Interacts directly with pediatric patients, families, and other health team members, facilitating age-appropriate interactions and activities to make the health care experience easier for patients and families. The role reduces patient and family distress, increases effective coping, fosters patient independence, and promotes optimum development. Provides supervision to volunteers, child life pre-internship students, and child life assistants. This PRN position supports sick call-outs, time-off requests, and open-position gaps, with a department expectation of supporting four shifts per month. Coverage may be needed Monday through Sunday, for daytime and evening shifts. Work may involve inpatient and outpatient settings across all departments at the Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution; degree will be verified.
- Documentation of a successfully completed 600-hour internship supervised by a child life specialist.
- Child Life Certification from the Association of Child Life Professionals (ACLP) is required within 15 months of hire.
- Experience with pediatric patients in a medical, hospital, or behavioral health setting.
- Experience with Child Life Core Competencies, including establishing supportive relationships; meeting the social, emotional, and cognitive needs of children and families; providing education and communication; coping support and comfort management; therapeutic play; and ongoing assessment and written documentation of clinical care.
- Computer experience with word processing, spreadsheets, databases, or similar applications.
- Skills in pediatrics, training and mentoring, written documentation, communication, relationship building, taking initiative, critical thinking, teamwork, growth mindset, and accountability.
Nice To Haves
- One year of experience with pediatric patients in a medical, hospital, or behavioral health setting.
- Work experience as a child life assistant.
- Experience as a child life pre-internship or practicum student.
- Experience supervising volunteers while working with children and adolescents.
- Spanish speaking.
Responsibilities
- Accurately assess, prioritize, and document pediatric patient and family care.
- Develop, implement, and evaluate effective pediatric patient- and family-centered health care plans.
- Provide developmentally appropriate education, psychological procedural preparation, coping support, comfort management, and play opportunities to pediatric patients and families.
- Participate in the selection, supervision, and training of new hires, students, and volunteers.
- Provide education for staff, such as in-services and newsletter articles.
- Assist with community outreach and Foundation partnerships.
- Adhere to the Association of Child Life Professionals (ACLP) Child Life Code of Ethics.
- Meet requirements outlined in child life department expectations.
- Supervise volunteers, child life pre-internship students, and child life assistants.
Benefits
- $1,500 sign-on bonus for new hires.
- Generous benefits package covering programs intended to support well-being and a sustainable culture of wellness.
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Job Type
Part-time
