Child Life Specialist

7 days ago

Brooklyn, United States NYU Langone Health Full time

NYU Langone Hospital - Brooklyn is a full-service teaching hospital and Level I trauma center located in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The hospital is central to a comprehensive network of affiliated ambulatory and outpatient practices, and serves as NYU Langone Health's anchor for healthcare access, growth, and delivery in the entire borough. 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. Learn more about NYU Langone Hospital - Brooklyn_, and 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.

**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 patients 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.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Documents services provided to patients/families appropriately, effectively, and in a timely manner. Maintains data collection and dissemination as required by Hospital and departmental policy.
- Upholds professional code of ethical responsibility (CLC, 2011) including the establishment of therapeutic relationships with patients and families that are clear, caring, and boundaried
- Participates in ongoing professional development to enhance job performance and contribute to the accomplishment of child life services and to contribute to hospital mission and goals. Demonstrates the ability to evaluate own performance and integrate feedback into practice. Annually develops professional goals with measurable objectives. Prioritizes, plans and organizes work for timely outcomes. Identifies and documents activities to maintain current knowledge, clinical practice, and professional certification.
- Participates in ongoing student and/or volunteer management, program development and evaluation to best meet patient/family and unit/service needs. Develops competencies in teaching, supervising, and providing feedback for students and volunteers as assigned.
- Builds and maintains positive, collaborative relationships with interdisciplinary team members, integrating goals and plans to promote optimal patient care, safety, family-centeredness, and patient/family satisfaction. Participates in team conferences, rounds, staff meetings, new staff member orientation, and in-service education as appropriate. Recommends consults/referrals when patient needs are beyond the scope of child life.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 childs 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.

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