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Child Life Specialist Infant Medical Surgical Unit
Intermountain Health Primary Childrens Hospital, USA · Internship
Sponsorship not specified$24k-$38kDetected 24 days ago
Patient CareCommunicationCritical ThinkingMentoring
About the role
- Job Description: 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.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree.
- Degree will be verified.
- Child Life Certification from Association of Child Life Professionals (ACLP) is required within 15 months of hire.
- Computer experience in word processing, spreadsheets, and databases or similar applications.
Nice to have
- 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
- Essential Functions
- Participates in selection, supervision, and training of new hires, students and volunteers
- Assists with community outreach and Foundation partnerships
- Adheres to Association of Child Life Professionals (ACLP) Child Life Code of Ethics
Skills
- Pediatrics
- Training and mentoring
- Writing documentation
- Communication
- Relationship building
- Taking initiative
- Critical thinking
- Teamwork
- Growth Mindset
- Accountability
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
- Intermountain Health Primary Childrens Hospital
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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