Child Life Specialist

3 weeks ago


Grapevine, Texas, United States Baylor Scott & White Health Full time
Palliative Care Child Life Specialist

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled Child Life Specialist to join our Palliative Care team. As a Child Life Specialist, you will provide exceptional psychosocial support to children (ages 0-18 years) loved by seriously and/or terminally ill or injured adult patients.

Responsibilities:

  • Partner with adult patients and families to provide support for the children they love.
  • Assess the psychosocial needs of children and facilitate developmentally-appropriate therapeutic interventions to support their unique coping and understanding.
  • Explain serious illness or injury, as well as dying and death to children, and assess their grief and coping throughout the medical journey, death, and into early bereavement.
  • Provide families with educational resources and recommend community organizations for long-term support, including professional counseling if needed.
  • Help educate the medical staff about Palliative Care Child Life Services and work alongside them to ensure excellent family-centered care.
  • Help develop best practices and processes to enhance our Palliative Care Child Life team and the services we provide across the Baylor Scott & White healthcare system.

Requirements:

  • Extensive understanding of child development, child life theory, evidence-based practice, trauma, grief, and developmentally-appropriate therapeutic practices for children.
  • Strong communication skills, including active listening, child-friendly language, empathy, emotional intelligence, and social awareness.
  • Cultural awareness while interacting with patients, families, and medical staff from varied spiritual, ethnic, linguistic, educational, and socio-economic backgrounds.
  • Comfortable educating adults, including medical staff, about children's unique responses to serious medical conditions, visiting their hospitalized loved one, death, and grief.
  • Effective management of own emotions while supporting children and families experiencing highly stressful circumstances.
  • Thorough documentation of interactions with patients and families using professional language, punctuation, spelling, and tone.

Benefits:

  • Immediate eligibility for health and welfare benefits.
  • 401(k) savings plan with dollar-for-dollar match up to 5%.
  • Tuition Reimbursement.
  • PTO accrual beginning Day 1.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree.
  • 3 years of experience.
  • Cert Child Life Specialist (CCLS).
  • Basic Life Support (BLS): BLS within 30 days or hire or transfer.

Belonging Statement:

We believe everyone should feel welcomed, valued, and supported. Our workforce should reflect our communities.



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