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Child Life Specialist, Therapeutic Recreation
4 months ago
**NYU Langone Health** is a world-class, patient-centered, integrated academic medical center, known for its excellence in clinical care, research, and education. It comprises more than 200 locations throughout the New York area, including five inpatient locations, a children's hospital, three emergency rooms and a level 1 trauma center. Also part of NYU Langone Health is the Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute designated comprehensive cancer center, and NYU Grossman School of Medicine, which since 1841 has trained thousands of physicians and scientists who have helped to shape the course of medical history. At NYU Langone Health, equity, diversity, and inclusion are fundamental values. We strive to be a place where our exceptionally talented faculty, staff, and students of all identities can thrive. We embrace diversity, inclusion, and individual skills, ideas, and knowledge. _For more information, go to _nyulangone.org_, a_nd interact with us on _LinkedIn_, _Glassdoor_, _Indeed_,_ _Facebook_, _Twitter_, _YouTube_ and _Instagram_._
**Position Summary**:
We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Child Life Specialist, Therapeutic Recreation.
**Responsibilities**:
- Utilizes knowledge and resources to assess, plan and prioritize appropriate child life and interdisciplinary interventions. Seeks and assimilates information from team members, patient, family, and medical record to perform needs assessment. Assesses patient development, temperament, coping style and adjustment using knowledge of child development and behavior, disease/injury, treatment, healthcare stressors, cultural and family systems. Uses informal as well as standardized assessment techniques (e.g., PRAP) as appropriate. Determines and prioritizes scope and depth of child life services recommended for each patient based on knowledge of the variables affecting coping. Communicates care plan to physician, interdisciplinary team members, patient and family as appropriate.
- Demonstrates, explains and provides stress reduction techniques before, during, and/or after stressful experiences to facilitate adaptive coping in consideration of developmental, emotional, situational, and behavioral factors. Encourages and supports patients’ emotional expression in order to promote understanding and mastery of health care experiences. Provides orientation to healthcare routines, environment, and personnel.
- Provides opportunities for and facilitates a variety of group and/or individual recreational and play activities that promote normalization, development, learning, self-expression, and coping. Recognizes and describes the developmental and psychosocial components of various therapeutic play and expressive activities in facilitating patients’ mastery and coping with the health care experience. Provides leadership and supervision for volunteers and students in the provision of safe and effective play activities.
- Facilitates positive relationships with family members, using knowledge and resources to accommodate cultural needs and to bridge differences. Seeks involvement and support of family members in their child’s child life and health care team goals, matching expectations with family needs and values. Extends support and offers counsel to family members with respect to their own stress and needs. Assists in the identification and utilization of internal and community resources for families. Provides education to parents regarding the patient’s and/or siblings’ developmental needs and responses to illness/injury/hospitalization. Supports siblings through developmentally appropriate play, expression, education and visitation.
- Provides, through direct and indirect involvement, a safe and therapeutic environment for individuals and groups. Selects a safe, developmentally appropriate supply of toys and equipment to address the needs and goals of the assigned area and population. Assists departmental staff members in the effective purchase, donation, delivery, and storage of materials utilized in programming. Collaborates with Environmental Services and others to promote a clean, safe, and functional space for use by children and families. Identifies environmental safety hazards and corresponding preventive/protective measures.
- Provides education regarding illness/condition, treatment, and coping techniques to patients, family members, and the larger community as appropriate. Assists in the preparation of patients and families for surgical, medical, and diagnostic procedures using developmentally appropriate and medically accurate teaching tools and techniques with a goal of increasing knowledge and decreasing anxiety. Incorporates coping technique education and reinforcement into daily interventions. Assesses effectiveness of coping or procedural education based on patient experience.
- Builds and maintains positive, collaborative relationships with interdisciplinary team members, integratin
