Child Life Activity Coordinator- Inpatient Acute Care

Texas Children's Hospital; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Texas Children’s Hospital is seeking a Child Life Activity Coordinator to provide a comprehensive play program aimed at normal growth, peer support, and healing experiences through play in a fast-paced hospital setting.

You will normalize the hospital environment, plan bedside activities, and work with the interdisciplinary team to meet individualized goals while maintaining a safe space and engaging volunteers to support the program.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Minimum 1 year experience with children preferred.

Responsibilities

• Normalizes the hospital environment and supports developmental needs.
• Prioritizes patient play/activity needs through daily report or verbal consults as evidenced by unit leadership team observation.
• Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team to assess individualized patient care goals that can be met through normalizing play.
• Provides developmentally appropriate activities at bedside.
• Maintains a safe, clean, and well‑organized activity room environment.
• Conducts scheduled volunteer orientation and supports the volunteers’ learning.
• Works collaboratively with the Office of Philanthropy to generate goodwill for the child life program.
• Demonstrates effective communication skills that promote free expression of ideas and viewpoints, by acknowledging value in others’ perspectives, and using conflict resolution techniques in a direct manner when appropriate while maintaining a positive working environment.

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Job Description

We are searching for a Child Life Activity Coordinator -- someone who works well in a fast‑paced setting. In this position, you will provide a comprehensive play program with a focus on ensuring opportunities for normal growth and development, normalization/mastery of the environment, peer to peer support by encouraging family and peer interaction, and healing experiences through play.

Think you’ve got what it takes?

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 1 year experience working with children inside or outside of a hospital environment preferred

Responsibilities:

• Normalizes the hospital environment and supports developmental needs
• Prioritizes patient play/activity needs through daily report or verbal consults as evidenced by unit leadership team observation
• Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team to assess individualized patient care goals that can be met through normalizing play
• Provides developmentally appropriate activities at bedside
• Maintains a safe, clean, and well‑organized activity room environment
• Conducts scheduled volunteer orientation and supports the volunteers’ learning
• Works collaboratively with the Office of Philanthropy to generate goodwill for the child life program
• Demonstrates effective communication skills that promote free expression of ideas and viewpoints, by acknowledging value in others’ perspectives, and using conflict resolution techniques in a direct manner when appropriate while maintaining a positive working environment

About Us

Since 1954, Texas Children’s has been leading the charge in patient care, education and research to accelerate health care for children and women around the world. When you love what you do, it truly shows in the smiles of our patient families, employees and our numerous accolades such as being consistently ranked as the best children’s hospital in Texas, and among the top in the nation by U.S. News & World Report as well as recognition from Houston Business Journal as one of this city’s Best Places to Work for ten consecutive years.

Texas Children’s comprehensive health care network includes our primary hospital in the Texas Medical Center with expertise in over 40 pediatric subspecialties; the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI); the Feigin Tower for pediatric research; Texas Children ’ s Pavilion for Women, a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility focusing on high‑risk births; Texas Children ’ s Hospital West Campus, a community hospital in suburban West Houston; Texas Children ’ s Hospital The Woodlands, the first hospital devoted to children ’ s care for communities north of Houston; and Texas Children’s Hospital North Austin, the new state‑of‑the‑art facility providing world‑class pediatric and maternal care to Austin and Central Texas families. We have also created Texas Children ’ s Health Plan, the nation ’ s first HMO focused on children; Texas Children ’ s Pediatrics, the largest pediatric primary care network in the country; Texas Children ’ s Urgent Care clinics that specialize in after‑hours care tailored specifically for children; and a global health program that is channeling care to children and women all over the world. Texas Children ’ s Hospital is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine, one of the largest, most diverse and successful pediatric programs in the nation.

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Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.