Child Life Team Lead Atrium Health Levine Children's Hospital

Child Life has been a part of Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center since 1977 and at Levine Childrens Hospital since its opening in 2007. The Child Life Department has more than 44 staff members including a Child Life manager two Child Life lead positions Child Life Specialists & Child Life Education Specialists and Child Life Assistants. Our Child Life team covers a broad scope of care within the Levine Childrens Service Line from Emergency Care to Transplant Programs Clinical Trials inpatient and outpatient care. Opportunities for leadership growth with our clinical advancement program.

Job Description:

Provides information education support and guidance to parents siblings and other family members. Promotes effective coping and play preparation education and self-expression 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.

Essential Functions

• Directs patient and family interactions that reduce distress increase adaptive coping and protect and enhance developmental quality of service rendered. Educates the patient significant others and other health care providers to assure continuity of the patient care day-to-day area operations and meets financial and staff utilization accurate child life specialists and child life students/interns to develop their clinical skills and ensure the delivery of quality patient quality improvement areas and implements process for to federal state hospital and professional regulations and Code of professional development and appropriate patient care in accordance with age/developmental guidelines.

  Physical Requirements

  Work requires walking standing sitting lifting stooping bending reaching pushing and pulling. Must be able to lift and support 51 pounds of weight in handling patients medical equipment and supplies.

  Education Experience and Certifications

  Bachelors degree in child Life Human Growth and Development Education Psychology or a related field of study required. Completion of student placement/internship in a Child Life Program in a healthcare setting required. Current Child Life Certification required. Minimum 6 years experience or 5 years experience with a masters degree in a related field required. Knowledge of clinical skills and understanding of the patient throughout childhood required. Excellent oral and written communication and composition skills required. Excellent financial management and personnel management skills required. Good organization and time management skills are required. Ability to communicate on a professional level with health care providers and the public. Meets and maintains Certified Child Life Specialist III guidelines established in the Child Life Clinical Advancement Program and meets minimum Child Life Competencies as defined by the Child Life Council.

  Patient Population Served

  Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development and demonstrates the skills and competency appropriate to the ages culture developmental stages and special needs of the patient population served.