# Child Life Specialist

**Company**: Intermountain Health
**Location**: Provo, Utah
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $24.30 - $37.52 per hour
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a full-time Child Life Specialist to join our team at Utah Valley Hospital. 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 health care 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

- Completion of a 600-hour internship supervised by a Child Life Specialist

- Child Life Certification from the Association of Child Life Professionals (ACLP) or eligible for certification within 15 months of hire date

- 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

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Master's degree

- Registered Behaviour Technician or Behavioural Health Experience

- Experience working with Autism and related disabilities or behavioural challenges

- 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

**Physical Requirements:**

- Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors

- Ongoing need to see and read information, documents, monitors, and identify equipment and supplies

- Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment

- Expected to lift and utilise full range of movement to transfer patients

**Benefits:**

- Competitive salary: $24.30 - $37.52 per hour

- Generous benefits package

## Skills

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

### Nice to have
- Masters Degree
- Registered Behaviour Technician
- Behavioural Health Experience
- Autism and related disabilities

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