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.

Responsibilities

• Provides supervision to volunteers, child life pre-internship students and child life assistants.
• 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.
• Aids in education for staff (e.g., in-services, newsletter articles, etc.).
• Assists with community outreach and Foundation partnerships.
• Adheres to Association of Child Life Professionals (ACLP) Child Life Code of Ethics.
• Maintains ongoing documentation of clinical care.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
• Successfully completed 600-hour internship supervised by a Child Life Specialist.
• Child Life Certification from Association of Child Life Professionals (ACLP) 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.

Qualifications

• Previous Emergency Department, bereavement support and trauma experience in the Child Life field is preferred.
• 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.

Skills

• Pediatrics.
• Training and mentoring.
• Writing documentation.
• Communication.
• Relationship building.
• Taking initiative.
• Critical thinking.
• Teamwork.
• Growth Mindset.
• Accountability.

Physical Requirements

• Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and assess issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations to maintain safety.
• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, documents, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use for typing, accessing needed information, etc.
• Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.
• May be expected to stand in a stationary position for an extended period of time.
• Lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients.

Benefits

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged. Learn More About Our Comprehensive Benefits Package Here.

Pay

Pay Rate: Based on experience.

Schedule

Shift Details: Full-time (40 hrs/wk) Monday - Friday 6:30am-3:00pm.

Department

St George Regional Hospital Child Life

Posting Specifics

Department: St George Regional Hospital Child Life

This position is direct patient care within the hospital.

Posting Specifics Pay Rate: Based on experience.

Shift Details: Full-time (40 hrs/wk) Monday - Friday 6:30am-3:00pm.

This position is direct patient care within the hospital.

Department: St George Regional Hospital Child Life

This position is for the Same Day Surgery unit.

Additional Information: Previous Emergency Department, bereavement support and trauma experience in the Child Life field is preferred.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
• Successfully completed 600-hour internship supervised by a Child Life Specialist.
• Child Life Certification from Association of Child Life Professionals (ACLP) 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.