Child Life Specialist

4 weeks ago


Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States Fairview Health Services Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a skilled Child Life Specialist to join our team at Fairview Health Services. The successful candidate will provide psychosocial services to pediatric patients and their families, utilizing play as a therapeutic modality.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide clinical psychosocial services throughout the hospital system based on the competencies of a certified child life specialist (CCLS).
  • Function as an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team, applying a knowledge of child development and family systems to their practice.
  • Assess developmental and emotional states, identify factors that impact a child and family's vulnerability to stress and trauma, and describe and apply the cyclical process of assessment, plan, intervention, and evaluation of child life services.
  • Utilize play as an assessment tool that encourages patients to express their anxieties, misconceptions, and perceptions of hospital experiences.
  • Articulate learning styles and needs of individuals with various developmental levels, emotional states, and of diverse backgrounds and experiences.
  • Implement a team plan for coping support during medical procedures, including parental presence with guidance, comfort positions, role responsibilities, and distraction techniques to help children refocus their attention.
  • Facilitate planning, rehearsal, implementation, and evaluation of coping strategies.
  • Ability to provide opportunities for play for infants, children, youth, and families.
  • Ability to practice within the scope of professional and personal knowledge and skill base, including the supervision of students.
  • Incorporate evidence-based practice and research into child life practice through continuing education.
  • Work as an integral part of the Patient and Family Support Services team in supporting other disciplines in providing patient and family centered care.
  • Utilize and supervise volunteers for child life programming or patient care needs.
Requirements
  • Bachelor's Degree in Child Life, Family or Child Development, Counseling, Child Psychology, Education, Social Work, Nursing, or related field.
  • Completion of child life internship as recognized by the ACLP.
  • Bachelors or masters in child life or closely related field.

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