Child Life Specialist
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Job Location:
Wake Forest, NC - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 24 - 37
Posted on:
18 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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$24.85 - $37.30Brenner Childrens Hospital is searching for a Child Life Specialist to deliver exceptional therapeutic care to neonatal pediatric and adolescent patientshelping them thrive through lifes toughest challenges. Youll design and lead engaging child life programs that empower families and transform hospital experiences. Using your expertise in human development youll turn compassion into action supporting children as they navigate illness injury and hospitalization.
If youre passionate about creating brighter futures this is your opportunity to make a difference where it matters most!
Job Requirements:
- Bachelors degree in Child Life or related field
- Intern or work experience in a comparable setting required
- Certification eligible with the Child Life Certifying Commission
- CPR certification required
Functions & Responsibilities:
- Adheres to the general hospital standards to promote a cooperative work environment by utilizing communication skills interpersonal relationships and team building.
- Provides patient care assessment planning interventions and evaluation.
- Directs patient and family interactions that reduce distress increase adaptive coping and protect and enhance developmental integrity.
- Educates the patient family and other health care providers to assure continuity of the patient care plan.
- Supervises child life students and volunteers to ensure the delivery of quality patient care.
- Maintains accurate documentation.
- Participates in quality improvement initiatives.
- Adheres to federal state hospital and professional regulations and Code of Ethics.
- Promotes professional development and education.
- Provides appropriate patient care in accordance with age/developmental guidelines.
Skills & Qualifications:
- Excellent oral and written communication and composition skills
- Ability to communicate on a professional level with health care providers and the public Ability to communicate with pediatric patients and significant others appropriate to their level of comprehension
- Knowledge of clinical skills and understanding of the patient throughout childhood
Our CommitmenttoYou:
Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs competitive compensation generous retirement offerings programs that invest in your career development and so much more so you can live fully at and away from work including:
Compensation
- Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications skills relevant experience and/or training
- Premium pay such as shift on call and more based on a teammates job
- Incentive pay for select positions
- Opportunity for annual increases based on performance
Benefits and more
- Paid Time Off programs
- Health and welfare benefits such as medical dental vision life andShort- and Long-Term Disability
- Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
- Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
- Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
- Educational Assistance Program
About Advocate Health
Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit integrated health system in the United States created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. Providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois; Atrium Health in the Carolinas Georgia and Alabama; and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation health outcomes consumer experience and value-based care. Headquartered in Charlotte North Carolina Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise. It is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology neurosciences oncology pediatrics and rehabilitation as well as organ transplants burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. Advocate Health employs 155000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1000 care locations and offers one of the nations largest graduate medical education programs with over 2000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs. Committed to providing equitable care for all Advocate Health provides more than $6 billion in annual community benefits.
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