# Child Life Specialist

**Company**: Intermountain Health
**Location**: Salt Lake City, UT
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Job type**: part-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 interact directly with pediatric patients, families, and other health team members. The successful candidate will facilitate age-appropriate interactions and activities to help make the healthcare experience easier for patients and families.

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 selection, supervision, and training of new hires, students, and volunteers

- Provide education for staff

- 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 behavioral health setting

- Experience in Child Life Core Competencies

- Computer experience in word processing, spreadsheets, and databases

Preferred Qualifications:

- One year 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

Benefits:

- Competitive salary ($24.30 - $37.52 per hour)

- Generous benefits package

- $1500 Sign-On Bonus for new hires

## Skills

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

### Nice to have
- Supervising volunteers
- Child life assistant experience
- Child life pre-internship/practicum student experience

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