Child Life Specialist

Shriners Hospitals for Children • St Louis, MO

45d

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