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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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