Certified Child Life Specialist

Description

The Child Life Specialists at PeaceHealth empower children for life’s challenges while providing high quality family-centered care as a part of a strong multidisciplinary team. They provide psychosocial and developmental based assessment and support to both patients and their families; plan and provide emotionally and developmentally appropriate care that promotes effective coping with health care and continued cognitive and emotional growth; serve as a resource and advocate on child development issues.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Child Life required
• Certified Child Life Specialist certification required within 6 months
• Minimum of 2 child developmental courses that cover birth - age 18
• Family Systems course
• Play course
• Loss/bereavement or death/dying course
• Research course
• 3 additional courses in related content

What You Bring!

• Experience as a Certified Child Life Specialist preferred, but new grads are welcome!
• Training and experience commensurate with certification requirement.
• Demonstrated knowledge of and competency in therapeutic relationships, human growth and development, family dynamics, interpersonal communication, developmental observation/assessment, learning process, behavior management, group dynamics, children's reaction to illness and hospitalization, therapeutic interventions, and play and activities.
• Demonstrated knowledge of childhood diseases, and medical terminology.
• Ability to interpret a patient's self-reporting or behaviors.
• Ability to provide effective preparation and procedural support.
• Ability to effectively communicate both verbally and in writing with staff, management, physicians, patients, families, visitors, and the public.
• Ability to prioritize, organize, multi-task and complete duties/projects on time.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective work relationships with staff, management, and other healthcare team members.
• Ability to exercise sound judgment, problem solve and make decisions.
• Ability to work effectively in a team and independently.
• Ability to attend to details.
• Proficient computer skills with Microsoft applications including Outlook and Word.