Child Life Specialist
Listed on 2025-12-31
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Healthcare
Healthcare Nursing, Pediatrics
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At Bay Care, we are proud to be one of the largest employers in the Tampa Bay area. Our network consists of 16 community-based hospitals, a long-term acute care facility, home health services, outpatient centers and thousands of physicians. With the support of more than 30,000 team members, we promote a forward-thinking philosophy that’s built on a foundation of trust, dignity, respect, responsibility and clinical excellence.
Position Details
- Location:
St. Joseph Children's Hospital - Status:
Full time, Hourly - Shift: 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
- Occasional weekends
- On Call: no
- Always in person
- Benefits (Health, Dental, Vision)
- Paid time off
- Tuition reimbursement
- 401k match and additional yearly contribution
- Yearly performance appraisals and team award bonus
- Community discounts and more
The Child Life Specialist is a member of the pediatric health care team who focuses on the emotional and developmental needs of children using therapeutic and developmental play experiences which help children and families maintain normal life patterns, prevent significant developmental disruption, and mitigate psychological distress throughout their health care experience.
- Provides appropriate guidance for volunteers and students.
- Acts as an advocate for children and their families with the hospital and uses their knowledge of child development to enhance the hospital environment for pediatric patients.
- Responsible for implementing a psychosocially and developmentally supportive program for hospitalized children and families.
- Interprets the child's perception of his diagnosis and treatment as revealed through play and other means of communication, both verbal and nonverbal
- Provides or cooperates with programs which assure continuity in the child's normal life experience, e.g., school programs, personal, and holiday celebrations
- CCLS (Child Life Certification)
- Bachelor's degree in Child Life, Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Recreational Therapy, or Psychology is required.
- Completion of a Child Life Internship is required.
- Seniority level Associate
- Employment type
Full-time
- Job function Other
- Industries Hospitals and Health Care
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