Child Life Specialist - FT Days - Pediatrics and PICU - Merlin

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Summary

Plans, develops, and provides Child Life programming to meet the psychological, emotional, and developmental needs of the pediatric patients and their families.

Job Duties

• Coordinates, schedules, and supervises all special events for the inpatient pediatric areas.
• Collaborates with marketing and public affairs to facilitate photography and filming activities, radio, television interviews, and host corporate donors.
• Develops a strategic plan to reduce the fear and anxiety a child experiences with the healthcare environment.
• Prepares patients and families for procedures, disease processes, and the healthcare environment using therapeutic play activities as treatment tools.
• Evaluates child's developmental stage, ability to understand and cope with the health care environment, temperament, and emotional state.
• Identifies patient and family coping strategies and applies strategies to assist in coping with the stress of hospitalization, illness, death, and / or loss.
• Implements specialized services to best meet the individual child's needs.
• Provides consultation to other health care workers regarding developmental and behavioral issues which impact patient care.
• Participates in record-keeping of vital statistics for the Child Life Department demonstrating which Child Life services have been provided to patients.
• Plans, implements, and monitors budget and resources which pertain to the goal of the Child Life department.
• Provides Child Life Consultations for children of patients to assist in supporting the needs and to prepare for visiting a patient in the hospital.

Minimum Qualifications

Physical Demands

Lift and carry 40-50 lbs. Examples : Push / pull patients on bed, stretcher (requires 29 lbs. push force), lateral transfers up to 50 lbs. of the patient's weight. Frequent to continuous standing / walking. Patient transporters can walk 8-10 miles per shift. Patient care providers may be required to perform activities specific to their role including kneeling, bending, squatting and performing CPR.

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