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SelectHealth

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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