Description
As a Child Life Specialist at Intermountain Health Park City Hospital, you will interact directly with pediatric patients, families, and other health team members. Your role involves facilitating age-appropriate interactions and activities to make the healthcare experience easier for patients and families. You will reduce patient and family distress, increase effective coping, foster patient independence, and promote optimum development.
The position comes with a $1500 sign-on bonus for new hires and offers a part-time schedule of 30 hours/week, with flexibility for additional PRN hours up to 40 hrs/wk.
Responsibilities:
- Accurately assess, prioritize, and document pediatric patient and family care.
- Develop, implement, and evaluate effective pediatric patient and family-centered healthcare 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 and assist with community outreach and Foundation partnerships.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
- Completion of a 600-hour internship supervised by a child life specialist.
- Child Life Certification from the Association of Child Life Professionals (ACLP) within 15 months of hire.
- Experience with pediatric patients in a medical, hospital, or behavioral health setting.
- Computer experience in word processing, spreadsheets, and databases.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 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/practicum student.
- Supervising volunteers while working with children and adolescents.
- Spanish speaking.
Physical Requirements:
- Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors.
- Ongoing need to see and read information, documents, and monitors.
- Manual dexterity for manipulating complex equipment.
- Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients.
Benefits: Intermountain Health provides a generous benefits package covering a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness.