Child Life Specialist II, Certified Per Diem

Pursues effective relationships

• Pursues effective relationships with others by proactively providing resources, information, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members.
• Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides mentoring to team members.
• Pursues self-development; creates plans and takes action to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; influences others through technical explanations and examples.
• Adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work; helps others adapt to new tasks and processes.
• Supports and responds to the needs of others to support a business outcome.

Completes work assignments

• Completes work assignments autonomously by applying up-to-date expertise in subject area to generate creative solutions; ensures all procedures and policies are followed; leverages an understanding of data and resources to support projects or initiatives.
• Collaborates cross-functionally to solve business problems; escalates issues or risks as appropriate; communicates progress and information.
• Supports, identifies, and monitors priorities, deadlines, and expectations.
• Identifies, speaks up, and implements ways to address improvement opportunities for team.

Provides ongoing assessment

• Provides ongoing assessment by using comprehensive knowledge to provide ongoing periodic assessment of the patient and their familys needs and progress; adjusts treatment and/or care plans as needed based on ongoing assessment, with minimal oversight.

Ensures stakeholder alignment

• Ensures stakeholder alignment by collaborating with healthcare professionals that are primarily within the organization to provide services to patients and their families; notifies the patients Interdisciplinary Group (IDG) of significant changes in the patients condition according to agency policy; and record keeping for donations or services donated.

Contributes to policy compliance

• Contributes to policy compliance by maintaining patient records and documentation of all care, interventions and care coordination per law, regulation, and agency policy, with limited supervision; adheres to departmental and organizational policies as well as maintaining patient confidentiality by following related laws and regulations (e.g., Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act).

Administers treatment and/or care

• Administers treatment and/or care by using comprehensive knowledge of therapeutic techniques to provide therapy services and/or psycho-social support through all phases of care, taking into consideration age and developmental needs; uses moderately complex strategies to educate and instruct the patient, patients family, and/or staff on services, as required; observes and identifies changes in patients behavior or condition to adapt treatment or care, with limited supervision.

Contributes to treatment and/or care delivery development

• Contributes to treatment and/or care delivery development by conducting moderately complex assessments of patients well-being to determine the most appropriate treatment or care plan; establishes goals and objectives for patients and makes necessary revisions per agency policy, with minimal guidance.

Qualifications

• Minimum three (3) years of experience in a CLS I or equivalent role.
• Bachelor's degree in Child Life, Psychology, Human Development, Behavioral Health, Social Work, Art, Music, or Play Therapy, or a directly related field.
• Child Life Specialist Certificate required at hire.
• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): Issues and Crisis Management; Confidentiality; Health Care Compliance; Health Care Policy; Creativity; Acts with Compassion; Conflict Resolution; Intercultural Skills; Interpersonal Skills; Managing Diverse Relationships; Relationship Building; Community Engagement; Psychology Knowledge; Behavioral Health Practice Protocols and Guidelines; Child and Adolescent Mental Health Treatment; Behavioral Health Treatment; Specialized and Informed Psychological Care; Child Development; Trauma Informed Care
• Member of the national ACLP organization.
• Master's degree in Psychology, Human Development, Behavioral Health, Social Work, Art, Music, or Play Therapy, or a directly related field.