Child Life Specialist

UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s; Cleveland (OH); On-site; USD 52,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s in Cleveland seeks a dedicated professional to provide age-appropriate child life care, supporting patients and families through documentation, assessments and interventions.

The role emphasizes collaboration with the healthcare team and volunteers, development and education initiatives, and active participation in quality improvement and research efforts within the department.

Qualifications

• Experience documenting patient interactions.
• Ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams.
• Engagement with families and communities.

Responsibilities

• Perform patient documentation and care assessments.
• Support patient/family care interventions.
• Collaborate and educate with healthcare teams, volunteers and students.
• Initiate and maintain community partnerships.
• Participate in quality improvement processes and related education/research.

Skills

Patient care documentation

Family-centered care

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Community partnerships

Job description

A Brief Overview

Provides safe efficient age specific child life care to patients/families using child life interventions in order to assist them to attain, maintain, regain, and sustain optimal health status

What You Will Do

• Patient documentation;
• Patient/family care assessment/intervention
• Collaboration/education with healthcare team/volunteers/students
• Initiates and maintains community partnerships
• Actively participates in the quality improvement process;
• Development/education/research

Additional Responsibilities

• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.
• For specific duties and responsibilities, refer to documentation provided by the department during orientation.
• Must abide by all requirements to safely and securely maintain Protected Health Information (PHI) for our patients. Annual training, the UH Code of Conduct and UH policies and procedures are in place to address appropriate use of PHI in the workplace.