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.
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$3000 Sign-On Bonus for new hires.
Posting Specifics
Pay Rate: Based on experience.
Shift Details: Full-time (40 hrs/wk)
8 hour shifts, Monday - Friday (9:00am – 5:30 pm).
No weekends or evenings
No on-call requirements.
Department: Primary Children's Hospital Salt Lake City
Additional Details:
This position would be helping patients in both in-patient and outpatient settings throughout the hospital as well as facilitating play sessions in our Sensory Room.
“Adaptive Care Program Mission Statement: We create equitable and productive healthcare experiences for individuals with developmental disabilities. We identify and communicate unique needs to empower healthcare providers and families to collaborate for positive healthcare outcomes.”
Required Qualifications
Experience in Child Life Core Competencies which include but are not limited to 1) Establishing supportive relationships 2) Meeting needs of child and family members, with a focus on social, emotional, and cognitive development. 3) Providing education to and communicating with children, families, and team members 4) Providing coping support and comfort management 5) Guiding children in therapeutic play techniques 6) Ongoing assessment and written documentation of clinical care
Essential Functions
Provides developmentally appropriate education, psychological procedural preparation, coping support, comfort management, and play opportunities, to pediatric patients and families
Skills
Preferred Qualifications
Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and assess issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations to maintain safety
Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, documents, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs.
Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients. Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.
Location:
Intermountain Health Primary Childrens Hospital
Work City:
Salt Lake City
Work State:
Utah
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40
The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.
$24.30 - $37.52
We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.
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