Child Life Specialist Child Life Per Diem
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Job Description
Are you an internal caregiver student or contingent worker/agency worker at UMass Memorial Health CLICK HERE to apply through your Workday account.
Exemption Status:
NonExemptSchedule Details:
Monday through Friday Weekends (Saturday and Sunday)Scheduled Hours:
Per diem varied days and hours. Some weekends and holidays includedShift:
4 Mixed Shift 8 Hours (United States of America)Hours:
0Cost Center:
Child LifeThis position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.
Everyone Is a Caregiver
At UMass Memorial Health everyone is a caregiver regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care academic excellence and leadingedge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 16000 employees working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients community and each other. And everyone in their own unique way plays an important part every day.
- Job Description
Creates a welcoming stress reducing environment in a variety of pediatric settings including inpatient units outpatient clinics radiology pediatric surgery and the emergency department. Through the direct intervention strategies of preprocedure and preoperative teaching medical and therapeutic play the Child Life Specialist provides psychosocially sound familycentered support to children 021 years of age and their families.
Major Responsibilities:
Assesses and interacts with patients and families using theories of human growth and development family systems and cultural background. Creates a therapeutic safe environment for individual patients or small groups on inpatient units playrooms clinic and emergency waiting areas and in treatment rooms. Facilitates the child/adolescent mastery of and coping
With the healthcare experience through a variety of interventions to include: divisional and recreational play medical play developmental/skill retention support and seasonal
celebrations. Provides emotional and educational support to patient and family coping with lifethreatening terminal illness or death.
In collaboration with the health care team on the various units served or through physician/R.N. consultation creates individualized preprocedure and presurgery preparation which is developmentally appropriate and best meets the child/adolescent learning style and emotional state. Creates coping strategy with child/family and accompanies family to procedure/surgery.
Functions as a member of the interdisciplinary health care team relaying pertinent patient assessments through direct report charting family care conferences and team meetings. Provides consultation and direct teaching on variety of Child Life issues for parents medical and nursing staff and students including: normal growth and development health care impact on coping and stress and ameliorative interventions.
Facilitates acquisition of hospital or homebound tutor for child/adolescent experiencing extended school absence due to accident or chronic illness.
Position Qualifications:
License/Certification/Education:
Required:
Bachelor of Science in Child Life Child Development or related field.
Must have current Child Life Certification or pass Child Life Certification Exam within one year of employment.
Experience/Skills:
Required:
Incumbent must be enthusiastic and dedicated to providing quality Child Life services to children and families in a variety of health care settings.
Ability to demonstrate positive and effective interpersonal and communication skills required.
Must be a selfstarter flexible and possess ability to work well independently.
- Additional Job DescriptionAdditional Job Description
ADDENDUM FOR CHILD LIFE SPECIALIST KIDS COMFORT PROMISE
Position Summary:
Creates a welcoming stress reducing environment in a variety of pediatric settings by helping to reduce the pain associated with needle sticks and facilitate positive coping skills for pediatric patients. The Certified Child Life Specialist will assist in the implementation of UMMHC Kids Comfort Promise (KCP) programming and principles for pediatric patients ages birth21 years. Through advocacy education creation of materials and direct patient care this staff member will advocate for interdisciplinary collaboration and family centered care.
Major Responsibilities:
1. Assesses and develops individualized procedural support plans and supports patients during procedures such as blood draws IV starts immunizations port accesses etc. 2. Advocates educates and helps facilitate KCP principles such as comfort positioning use of treatment room numbing distraction and sucrose/breastfeeding. 3. Serves as an active member of the Kids Comfort Promise Initiative team attending all committee meetings and trainings.
Experience/Skills: Required:
Addition: 1. Must be comfortable with public speaking and advocating for Kids Comfort Promise principles.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or protected veteran status.
Were striving to make respect a part of everything we do at UMass Memorial Health for our patients our community and each other. Our six Standards of Respect are: Acknowledge Listen Communicate Be Responsive Be a Team Player and Be Kind. If you share these Standards of Respect we hope you will join our team and help us make respect our standard for everyone every day.
As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer UMass Memorial Health recognizes the power of a diverse community and encourages applications from individuals with varied experiences perspectives and backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender sexual orientation national origin age disability gender identity and expression protected veteran status or other status protected by law.
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Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Part-Time
