Certified Child Life Specialist - 134977

Certified Child Life Specialist

Peace Health is looking for a Certified Child Life Specialist for a part time day shift opportunity (4 days a week) covering our Pediatric department as their home unit. Join our team experienced CCLS's in a supportive, collaborative and highly engaged environment!

The Child Life Specialists empowers children for life's challenges while providing high quality family-centered care as a part of a strong multidisciplinary team. You will provide psychosocial and developmental based assessment and support to both patients and their families;
Plan and provide emotionally and developmentally appropriate care that promotes effective coping with health care and continued cognitive and emotional growth;
Serve as a resource and advocate on child development issues.

Salary range for this position is $28.73 - $43.09 depending on experience.

Help Children and Families Navigate some of life's most important moments:

• Assess the psychosocial and emotional status of patients and their family's consequent to illness and/or hospitalization through direct contact, interaction and observation, consultation with other healthcare professionals, and medical records.
• Initiate therapeutic interventions consequent to assessment of individual patients and families.
• Report and/or document observations, assessments, and interventions, to other healthcare professionals via rounds, reports, conferences, and meetings as appropriate.
• Establish and maintain a supportive, helpful and trusting relationship with patients and families by helping in the preparation for medical and surgical procedures, home care, discharge planning.
• Facilitate coping from the time of admission through to discharge and follow-up.
• Plan, evaluate and implement an overall program of therapeutic interventions designed to address the psychosocial and emotional needs of hospitalized children and families. This may include: pre-procedural preparation, patient/family education, therapeutic play and recreation, group interaction, and activities that facilitate patient's/families' sense of well-being, mastery and competence.
• Advocate for individual patient's/families concerns, special needs and rights, and makes appropriate referrals to individuals, groups or agencies within the hospital or community.
• Assist in the design, implementation, evaluation and maintenance of therapeutic activity areas as needed. Manages the utilization of materials and equipment within the program, and ensures they are used in an appropriate, safe, secure and cost-efficient manner.

Qualifications:

Education:

Bachelor's Degree in Child Life required

In order to qualify for the CCLS certification, degree needs to be from an ACLP endorsed academic program OR coursework needs to include:

• Child Life course taught by a CCLS
• Minimum of 2 child developmental courses that cover birth - age 18
• Family Systems course
• Play course
• Loss/bereavement or death/dying course
• Research course
• 3 additional courses in related content

What You Bring!

Experience as a Certified Child Life Specialist preferred, but new grads are welcome!

Training and experience commensurate with certification requirement.

Peace Health is committed to the overall wellbeing of our caregivers: physical, emotional, financial, social, and spiritual. We offer caregivers a competitive and comprehensive total rewards package. Some of the many benefits included in this package are full medical/dental/vision coverage; 403b retirement plan employer base and matching contributions; paid time off; employer-paid life and disability insurance with additional buyup coverage options;

tuition and continuing education reimbursement; wellness benefits, and expanded EAP and mental health program.

For full consideration of your skills and abilities, please attach a current resume with your application. EEO Affirmative Action Employer/Vets/Disabled in accordance with applicable local, state or federal laws.