# Child Life Specialist

**Company**: Intermountain Health
**Location**: Intermountain Health Primary Childrens Hospital
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $24.30 - $37.52 per hour
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Child Life Specialist to join our team at Intermountain Health Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City, UT.

As a Child Life Specialist, you will interact directly with pediatric patients, families, and other health team members to facilitate age-appropriate interactions and activities, reducing patient and family distress, and promoting optimum development.

**Responsibilities:**

- Accurately assess, prioritise, and document pediatric patient and family care

- Develop, implement, and evaluate effective pediatric patient and family-centred healthcare plans

- Provide developmentally appropriate education, psychological procedural preparation, coping support, comfort management, and play opportunities to pediatric patients and families

- Participate in 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

- Documentation of a successfully completed 600-hour internship supervised by a child life specialist

- Child Life Certification from Association of Child Life Professionals (ACLP) is required within 15 months of hire

- Experience with pediatric patients in a medical, hospital, or behavioural health setting

- Experience in Child Life Core Competencies

- Computer experience in word processing, spreadsheets, and databases or similar applications

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- One year experience with pediatric patients in a medical, hospital, or behavioural 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

**Sign-On Bonus:** $3000 for new hires

**Pay Rate:** $24.30 - $37.52 per hour, based on experience

**Benefits:** We offer a comprehensive benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness.

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## Skills

### Required
- Pediatrics
- Training and mentoring
- Writing documentation
- Communication
- Relationship building
- Taking initiative
- Critical thinking
- Teamwork
- Growth Mindset
- Accountability
- Spanish

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