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Posted: 02-May-23
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
Type: Full Time
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Internal Number: JR100886
Position Summary:
The Child Life Specialist is responsible for providing patient care services for infants, toddlers, school-age children, adolescents, and their families. Foster and encourage emotional well-being, cognitive developmental opportunities for young patients and their families. Promotes a family centered care that reduces stress, helps with coping, provides activities to normalize and encourage social interaction. Supports developmental integrity through play experiences by creating a safe environment. Orients hospital staff of the psychosocial needs of children and their families and fosters positive hospital community relations.
Essential Functions:
Facilitates child life services in the assigned area. Prioritizes patient care needs daily and assigns staff, students, and volunteers.
Assesses and evaluates patients and their families to gather appropriate information to establish effective therapeutic interventions. Identifies and compares various developmental levels and needs, matches interaction and activities based on developmental and emotional needs.
Demonstrates an understanding of patient's illness, identifies prognosis and limitations, implements activities accordingly to help patients understand and cope with the illness. Assists patients and families with the diagnosis, treatment, disease process and hospitalization.
Assists patients in minimizing stress and anxiety by providing activities that encourage coping, normalization, expression of feelings, sense of proficiency and control. Uses developmentally appropriate play experiences as a primary tool in assessing and meeting the child’s psychosocial needs in the health-care setting.
Develops a plan-of-care based on assessment of child’s development, temperament, coping style, medical plan, and available social support using therapeutic play as a diagnostic and treatment tool. Documents child development actions by completing records.
Identifies and mobilizes resources as necessary for developmental intervention, procedural/surgical preparation, medical play, coping education, and family support.
Sets-up and organizes activity areas, provides design input for patient areas, to promote use, orientation, personalization and provide comfort and security.
Opportunities to provide care in the following departments: NICU, ER, Surgical Services/Peri-Op, Acute Care- Renal/Rehab/Dialysis
Eligible for $7,500 Sign-On Bonus
Job Qualifications:
Education- Baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university in Child Life, Child Development, Child & Family Studies, Psychology, or a related field that meets the criteria for a Certified Child Life Specialist. Preferred:? Master's degree in Child Life, Child & Family Development, Psychology, or related field.
Experience-?Completion of Child Life Internship and eligible to sit for Certification Exam. Preferred:?Two years’ clinical experience in a pediatric healthcare setting.
License/Certification-?Must be a certified child life specialist (CCLS – per the Certifying Commission and Association for Child Life Professionals guidelines and requirements) or eligible and must obtain certification within one year of hire. Preferred:?Certified child life specialist (CCLS)
Special Skills/Training- Eligible to become CPR certified, CPI trained, Trach Trained. Preferred: CPR certification.
The above job summary is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. LCMC Health reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary.
