Child Life Specialist

Shriners Hospitals for Children; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A premier pediatric specialty hospital in Boston seeks a Child Life Specialist to provide family-centered care that addresses the psychosocial needs of children. This role promotes normal growth and development through therapeutic services and education while collaborating with interdisciplinary teams. Applicants should hold a Bachelor's degree and certification as a Child Life Specialist, with a preference for Masters degree holders and hospital experience.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision coverage from day one

403(b) Retirement Saving Plan with matching contributions

Paid time off and flexible spending accounts

Tuition reimbursement

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor's degree in Child Life or related field.
• Preferred: One year experience in a hospital child life program.
• Certified Child Life Specialist.

Responsibilities

• Provides evaluation and therapeutic services for patients and families.
• Functions as a team member and develops leadership through mentoring.
• Supports ongoing development and improvement of the department.

Skills

Therapeutic play

Patient/family education

Adaptive coping techniques

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Child Life

Masters degree in Child Life

Job description

Company Overview

Shriners Children’s is a family that respects, supports, and values each other. We are engaged in providing excellence in patient care, embracing multi-disciplinary education, and research with global impact. We foster a learning environment that values evidenced based practice, experience, innovation, and critical thinking. Our compassion, integrity, accountability, and resilience defines us as leaders in pediatric specialty care for our children and their families.

All employees are eligible for medical, dental and vision coverage on their first day! In addition, upon hire all employees are eligible for a 403(b) and Roth 403 (b) Retirement Saving Plan with matching contributions of up to 6% after one year of service. Employees in a full-time or part-time status (40+ hours per pay period) will also be eligible for paid time off, life insurance, short term and long-term disability and the Flexible Spending Account (FSA) plans. Additional benefits available to full-time and part-time employees include tuition reimbursement, home & auto, hospitalization, critical illness, pet insurance and much more! Coverage is available to employees and their qualified dependents in accordance with the plans. Benefits may vary based on state law.

We are a premier pediatric specialty, research, and academic teaching hospital with a medical and research partnership with Massachusetts General Brigham. It is the world’s leading center for pediatric burn care and is the only American Burn Association (ABA) exclusively pediatric verified burn center in New England and New York.

Job Overview

The Child Life Specialist provides comprehensive, purposeful, developmentally appropriate, and culturally sensitive, family-centered care. This care is focused on meeting the psychosocial and developmental needs of children and families. Schedule is 7:30am to 4pm M/T/TH/F. Flexibility to work occasional Wednesdays and weekends is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provides evaluation and therapeutic services, direct patient care and patient/family education, in an efficient manner.
• Services may include therapeutic play, preparation, procedural support, special events, and reintegration programming. The child life specialist utilizes these practices in an effort tofacilitate adaptive coping techniques and promote normal growth and development of the patient and family.
• Functions as a team member and develops leadership through activities such as mentoring and providing education to students and otherprofessionals.
• Supports the ongoing development and improvement of the department through participation in special projects, performance improvement and facilitycommittees.
• In cooperation with other local leaders, offers exceptional care following the Shriners Children's FOCUSED program, a system-wide model for professional practice that stresses and emphasizes patient –centered care, or always putting the needs of the patients (and their families) first.

This is not an all-inclusive list of this job’s responsibilities. The incumbent may be required to perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Child Life, Child Development or related field
• Certified Child Life Specialist

Preferred:

• Masters degree in Child Life, Child Development or related field
• One year’s experience in a hospital child life program

Shriners Children’s is an EOE/Drug-Free, Smoke-Free Workplace.

Shriners Children’s values diversity and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.