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