# Child Life Specialist

**Company**: Intermountain Health
**Location**: Salt Lake City, 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

As a Child Life Specialist at Intermountain Health Primary Children's 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 NICU Level IV unit, where you will be working, provides the highest and most advanced levels of specialized medical care available for premature and critically ill newborns. This is a full-time position, working 40 hours a week from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday.

**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.

- Adhere to the Association of Child Life Professionals (ACLP) Child Life Code of Ethics and meet requirements outlined in child life department expectations.

**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 ACLP 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 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 and delicate equipment.

- Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients.

**Benefits:** Intermountain Health offers a generous benefits package covering a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness.

**Salary:** $24.30 - $37.52 per hour, depending on experience. New hires are eligible for a $3000 sign-on bonus.

## Skills

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

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