Certified Child Life Specialist - Atrium Health Charlotte PRN
Certified Child Life Specialist - Atrium Health Charlotte PRN
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Job Description
**Must have successfully completed a Child Life Internship and either have Child Life Specialist Certification in place or eligible/pending completion.**
Certified Child Life Specialists working in the adult hospital setting seek to help the children of adult patients understand their loved ones medical experiences by providing developmentally appropriate support and education. Preferred 1 year clinical experience working as a Certified Child Life Specialist.
Primary Purpose
Provides comprehensive education support and guidance to parents siblings and other family members. Promotes effective coping and play preparation education and selfexpression activities. Provides emotional support for families and encourages optimum development of children facing a broad range of challenging experiences particularly those related to healthcare and hospitalization.
Major Responsibilities
- Develops implements and evaluates short and longterm goals to support the psychosocial and developmental needs of the pediatric and neonatal patients.
- Works with the multidisciplinary team to provide education to patients and families and to formulate and implement a plan of care.
- Collaborates with appropriate departments when planning and implementing special activities and events that assist the patient and family with normalizing their hospital experience.
- Serves as a patient and family advocate through the philosophy of family centered care.
- Leads the planning presenting and evaluating of inservice education.
- Works with the Child Life Assistants and Volunteer Services to onboard and evaluate volunteers as needed.
- Provides education and supervision of student interns for the Child Life Department.
- Directs the onboarding and mentoring of new teammates and Child Life interns.
Minimum Job Requirements
Physical Requirements and Working Conditions
Preferred Job Requirements
DISCLAIMER
All responsibilities and requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only responsibilities to be performed by an employee occupying this job or position. Employees must follow any other jobrelated instructions and perform any other jobrelated duties requested by their leaders.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Part-Time
