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Child Life Specialist Utah Valley
Intermountain Health Utah Valley Hospital, USA · Internship
Sponsorship not specified$24k-$38kDetected 24 days ago
Patient CareCommunicationCritical ThinkingMentoring
About the role
- 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.
- This includes frequent computer use for typing, accessing needed information, etc. - Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients.
Responsibilities
- Previous Emergency Department, bereavement support and trauma experience in the Child Life field would be helpful.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree.
- Degree will be verified.
- Documentation required.
- Computer experience in word processing, spreadsheets, and databases or similar applications.
- One Weekend Shift required each week.
Nice to have
- Masters Degree Preferred
- Experience working with Autism and related disabilities or behavioral challenges preferred.
- 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
- 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.
Compensation
- $24k-$38k
Benefits
- 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.
- $3000 Sign-On Bonus for new hires
- Education must be obtained from an accredited institution.
- Experience with pediatric patients in a medical, hospital or behavioral health setting
Equal opportunity
- Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
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