Child Life Specialist Same Day Surgery

About the role

Interacts directly with pediatric patients, families and other health team members and facilitates age-appropriate interactions and activities to help make the health care experience easier for patients and families. Reduces patient and family distress, increases effective patient and family coping, fosters patient independence, and promotes optimum development. Provides supervision to volunteers, child life pre-internship students and child life assistants. Supports the Same Day Surgery area. Click on the video link below to see "A Day in the Life of a Child Life Specialist" $1,500 Sign-On Bonus for new hires.

Responsibilities

• Interacts directly with pediatric patients, families and other health team members and facilitates age-appropriate interactions and activities to help make the health care experience easier for patients and families.
• Reduces patient and family distress, increases effective patient and family coping, fosters patient independence, and promotes optimum development.
• Provides supervision to volunteers, child life pre‑internship students and child life assistants.
• Accurately assesses, prioritizes, and documents pediatric patient and family care.
• Develops, implements, and evaluates effective pediatric patient and family‑centered health care plans.
• Provides developmentally appropriate education, psychological procedural preparation, coping support, comfort management, and play opportunities to pediatric patients and families.
• Participates in selection, supervision, and training of new hires, students and volunteers.
• Provides education for staff (e.g., in‑services, newsletter articles, etc.).
• Assists with community outreach and Foundation partnerships.
• Adheres to the Association of Child Life Professionals (ACLP) Child Life Code of