Child Life Specialist - Atrium Health Adult Intensive Care Unit Charlotte FT

**Must have successfully completed a Child Life Internship and either have Child Life Specilalist Certification in place or elligible/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 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.

 

Major Responsibilities 

• Develops, implements, and evaluates short- and long-term 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 in-service education. 
• Works with the Child Life Assistants and Volunteer Services to on-board and evaluate volunteers as needed. 
• Provides education and supervision of student interns for the Child Life Department. 
• Directs the on-boarding and mentoring of new teammates and Child Life interns.

 

Minimum Job Requirements

Education Bachelor’s degree in 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. Certification / License Current Child Life Certification required. Work Experience Minimum 3 years' experience or 2 years' experience with a Master's Degree in a related field required Knowledge / Skills / Abilities Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required. Good organization and time management skills are required. Meets and maintains Certified Child Life Specialist II guidelines established in the Child Life Clinical Advancement Program

 

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Preferred Job Requirements

Education   Certification / License   Experience   Knowledge / Skills / Abilities  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 job-related instructions and perform any other job-related duties requested by their leaders.