# Child Life Specialist

**Company**: Intermountain Health
**Location**: St George, Utah
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Job type**: part-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 St George Regional Hospital, you will interact directly with pediatric patients, families, and other health team members. You will facilitate age-appropriate interactions and activities to help make the healthcare experience easier for patients and families.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Reducing patient and family distress

- Increasing effective patient and family coping

- Fostering patient independence

- Promoting optimum development

- Providing supervision to volunteers, child life pre-internship students, and child life assistants

This is a PRN position, supporting sick call outs, time off requests, and open position gaps. The department expects you to support 4 shifts per month, with potential coverage from Monday to Sunday, day time and evening shifts.

**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 or similar applications

**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

**Physical Requirements:**

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

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

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

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

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

**Salary:** $24.30 - $37.52 per hour

## Skills

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

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