Art from the Heart Intern

About the role

Connect patients, visitors, and staff at the University of Vermont Medical Center and Golisano Children’s Hospital to the arts.

Skills

• Using the arts to help people feel more creative, comforted, and connected through a wide range of arts interventions and strategies.
• Build communication skills and rapport with people from a wide variety of backgrounds, ages, and abilities, developing sensitivity to individual and cultural differences.
• Understanding the medical clinical environment and how to professionally work within it.
• Supporting greater empathy and connection among participants and in one’s self.

Responsibilities

• Plan and implement arts experiences for people of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities at the UVM Medical Center and Golisano Children’s Hospital helping to create a welcoming and encouraging environment for creativity and communication.
• Provide guidance and support to people creating art projects as part of the program, and develop connections with participants on a wide range of art forms.
• Create and maintain supplies necessary for the program ensuring that materials are ready and available for participants.
• Help maintain the organization and hygiene of program supplies.
• Follow all hospital procedures as trained, especially in regard to HIPAA and patient privacy, and sanitization and hygiene for all materials and personal hygiene.
• Liaise with UVMMC and GCH nursing, child life, and volunteer services on a regular basis.
• Track work in the program through logging data on visits and writing a daily brief narrative on meaningful interactions.
• Attend meetings with volunteers to develop skills.
• Grow into a leadership role, eventually leading group meetings.
• Help train and coach volunteers.
• Communicate professionally about schedules, keeping the shared calendar, partners, and program leader up to date.
• Follow up on patient visit requests, communicating with the team on various channels to ensure support for participants.

Requirements

• Ability to actively support City diversity, equity, and cultural competency efforts within stated job responsibilities and work effectively across diverse cultures and constituencies.
• Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion as evidenced by ongoing trainings and professional development and ability to view all aspects of work through a culturally competent lens is required.
• At least