Child Life Specialist PRN St George

12600 St George Regional Hospital; Saint George (UT); On-site; USD 69,629,000 - 107,456,000; Part time

Job summary

Intermountain Health's St George Regional Hospital seeks a PRN Child Life Specialist to support pediatric patients and their families. You will assist in the emergency department, pediatrics, and same-day surgery, providing developmentally appropriate education, coping support, and therapeutic play while documenting care.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree, a 600-hour internship with a child life specialist, and ACLP certification within 15 months of hire.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from accredited institution; degree verified.
• 600-hour internship supervised by a child life specialist.
• ACLP Child Life Certification required within 15 months of hire.
• Experience with pediatric patients in medical, hospital or behavioral health settings.
• Knowledge of ACLP Core Competencies: relationships, development, education, coping, therapeutic play, documentation.

Responsibilities

• Assess and document pediatric patient and family care.
• Develop and evaluate pediatric patient and family-centered care plans.
• Provide education, procedural preparation, coping support, and developmentally appropriate play.
• Participate in hiring, supervision and training of staff, students and volunteers.
• Provide staff education (in-services, newsletters).
• Support community outreach and Foundation partnerships.
• Adhere to ACLP Code of Ethics.

Skills

Pediatrics

Documentation

Communication

Relationship building

Initiative

Critical thinking

Teamwork

Growth mindset

Accountability

Education

Bachelor's degree in field

600-hour internship supervised

ACLP Certification

Tools

Word processing

Spreadsheets

Databases

Job description

Job Description

Interacts directly with pediatric patients, families and other health team members and facilitates age-appropriate interactions and activities to help make the health care experience easier for patients and families. Reduces patient and family distress, increases effective patient and family coping, fosters patient independence, and promotes optimum development. Provides supervision to volunteers, child life pre-internship students and child life assistants.

Pay and Bonus

$1500 Sign-On Bonus for new hires. Pay Rate: Based on experience.

Posting Specifics

• Shift Details: PRN Position will support sick call out’s, time off request, and open position gaps. Department expectation is supporting 4 shifts per month. Potential for coverage Monday - Sunday; daytime and evening shifts.
• Additional Details: This PRN position will support Child Life Specialist at St. George Regional Hospital in areas such as pediatrics, emergency department, and same day surgery.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree. Education must be obtained from an accredited institution. Degree will be verified.
• Documentation of a successfully completed 600-hour internship supervised by a child life specialist.
• Child Life Certification from Association of Child Life Professionals (ACLP) is required within 15 months of hire.
• Experience with pediatric patients in a medical, hospital or behavioral health setting.
• Experience in Child Life Core Competencies which include but are not limited to:
  • Establishing supportive relationships
  • Meeting needs of child and family members, with a focus on social, emotional, and cognitive development.
  • Providing education to and communicating with children, families, and team members.
  • Providing coping support and comfort management.
  • Guiding children in therapeutic play techniques.
  • Ongoing assessment and written documentation of clinical care.
• Computer experience in word processing, spreadsheets, and databases or similar applications.

Preferred Qualifications

• One year experience with pediatric patients in a medical, hospital or behavioral health setting.
• Work experience as a child life assistant.
• Experience as a child life pre-internship/practicum student.
• Supervising volunteers while working with children and adolescents.
• Spanish speaking.

Essential Functions

• Accurately assesses, prioritizes, and documents pediatric patient and family care.
• Develops, implements, and evaluates effective pediatric patient and family-centered health care plans.
• Provides developmentally appropriate education, psychological procedural preparation, coping support, comfort management, and play opportunities, to pediatric patients and families.
• Participates in selection, supervision, and training of new hires, students and volunteers.
• Provides education for staff (e.g., in-services, newsletter articles, etc.).
• Assists with community outreach and Foundation partnerships.
• Adheres to Association of Child Life Professionals (ACLP) Child Life Code of Ethics.
• Meets requirements outlined in child life department expectations.

Skills

• Pediatrics Training and mentoring.
• Writing documentation.
• Communication.
• Relationship building.
• Taking initiative.
• Critical thinking.
• Teamwork.
• Growth Mindset.
• Accountability.

Physical Requirements

Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and assess issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations to maintain safety. Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, documents, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs. Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use for typing, accessing needed information, etc. Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients. Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items. May be expected to stand in a stationary position for an extended period of time.

Location

Intermountain Health St George Regional Hospital
Work City: St George
Work State: Utah

Scheduled Weekly Hours

0 The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. $24.30 - $37.52

Benefits

• We care about your well-being - mind, body, and spirit - which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.
• Learn more about our comprehensive benefits package here.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

Additional Information

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