Child Life Specialist Weekends

37700 Primary Childrens - Lehi; Lehi (UT); On-site; USD 20,000 - 31,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on Bonus

Job summary

Intermountain Health is seeking a part-time Child Life Specialist to support pediatric patients and families at the Lehi campus. The role emphasizes developmentally appropriate education, coping strategies, and therapeutic play, with weekend daytime coverage and potential holiday hours.

The ideal candidate holds a Bachelor's degree with a supervised internship, and ACLP certification within 15 months of hire. This in-person position offers a sign-on bonus and a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
• Documented completion of a 600-hour internship supervised by a child life specialist.
• ACLP certification required within 15 months of hire.

Responsibilities

• Accurately assesses, prioritizes, and documents pediatric patient and family care.
• Develops, implements, and evaluates patient and family centered care plans.
• Provides education and coping support, therapeutic play and comfort management.
• Participates in selection, supervision, and training of new hires, students and volunteers.
• Provides staff education and supports community outreach and partnerships.

Skills

Pediatrics

Documentation

Communication

Teamwork

Initiative

Education

Bachelor's degree (accredited)

600-hour internship completed

ACLP certification within 15 months

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.

$1500 Sign-On Bonus for new hires.

Posting Specifics

Pay Rate: Based on experience.

Shift Details: Part‑time, 16 hours/week EVERY Weekend (Saturday & Sunday, 8:30am - 5:00pm) May be required to work holidays. Ability to pick up open/unfilled shifts for additional hours if desired.

Located at Primary Children's Hospital, Lehi campus

Additional Details: This position will be in‑person supporting Weekend Daytime coverage and consults. Position coverage may support the Emergency Department, Medical Surgical Unit, PICU, NICU, Surgery, play spaces, etc.

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 1) Establishing supportive relationships 2) Meeting needs of child and family members, with a focus on social, emotional, and cognitive development. 3) Providing education to and communicating with children, families, and team members 4) Providing coping support and comfort management 5) Guiding children in therapeutic play techniques 6) 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 and Compensation

Location: Primary Children’s at Lehi

Work City: Lehi

Work State: Utah

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 16

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.

Recruitment Process

At Intermountain Health, we use the artificial intelligence ("AI") platform, HiredScore to improve your job application experience. HiredScore helps match your skills and experiences to the best jobs for you. While HiredScore assists in reviewing applications, all final decisions are made by Intermountain personnel to ensure fairness. We protect your privacy and follow strict data protection rules. Your information is safe and used only for recruitment.

All positions subject to close without notice.

Company Information

Headquartered in Utah with locations in six primary states and additional operations across the western U.S., Intermountain Health is a nonprofit system of 34 hospitals, 400+ clinics, a medical group of more than 4,800 employed physicians and advanced care providers, a health plan division called Select Health with more than one million members, and other health services. Helping people live the healthiest lives possible, Intermountain is widely recognized as a leader in clinical quality improvement and efficient healthcare delivery.

Join our world-class team and embark on a career filled with opportunities, strength, innovation, and fulfillment.

To find out more about us, head to our career site here.