Child Life Specialist

Found in: Jooble CA O C2 - 2 weeks ago

Alberta, Canada Alberta Health Services Full time

Your Opportunity:

The Alberta Children's Hospital (ACH) is a warm & vibrant workplace, with team members providing service to children & their families in inpatient units & ambulatory clinics. The Child Life Specialist, as part of the ACH site wide Child Life Service, ensures their clinical practice is patient/family centered, maximizes the child's physical and emotional health through activities and interventions that are evidence based, research informed and aligned with program and clinic services. The Child Life Specialist is responsible for assessment and interventions which support children and their families with coping and adjustment in the hospital setting across emergency, inpatient, and outpatient services. This individual will have the skills required to utilize knowledge of infant/child/adolescent development, the impact of hospitalization on children, pain management and coping techniques, and the principles of family centered care in interacting and intervening with pediatric patients. The Child Life Specialist works as part of an interdisciplinary team providing therapeutic interventions in response to referrals and within the context of regular program offerings. This position will provide primary support to outpatient clinic areas.

Description:

As a Child Life Specialist, you will plan, develop, implement, coordinate and evaluate developmental and normalization activities including therapeutic play programs in order to further the social, emotional, intellectual and physical growth of children and adolescents. You will assess, research, plan, implement and evaluate appropriate play and developmental activities/interventions for children and families (both individual and in group settings). You will provide therapeutic play programs designed to reduce stress, help clients cope with hospitalization, promote development and independence. You will help prepare children for diagnostic, medical and surgical procedures through hospital play, demonstrations and discussions and introduce coping strategies and techniques to assist children and families during procedures. You will also provide diversion experiences and facilitate special events.

  • Classification: Child Life Specialist
  • Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
  • Unit and Program: Child Life, Allied Health
  • Primary Location: Alberta Children's Hospital
  • Location Details: As Per Location
  • Multi-Site: Not Applicable
  • FTE: 1.00
  • Posting End Date: 18-APR-2024
  • Temporary Employee Class: Temp F/T Benefits
  • Date Available: 29-APR-2024
  • Temporary End Date: 24-APR-2026
  • Hours per Shift: 7.75
  • Length of Shift in weeks: 2
  • Shifts per cycle: 10
  • Shift Pattern: Days
  • Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
  • Minimum Salary: $37.35
  • Maximum Salary: $49.73
  • Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable
Required Qualifications:

Completion of bachelor's degree in Child Life, Education, Psychology or other related field. Additional Required Qualifications:

ACLP (Association of Child Life Professionals) Child Life certification required. Minimum 3-5 years of experience working as a Child Life Specialist in a pediatric health care setting. Clinical experience working with children and youth with chronic illness. Demonstrated skills in non-pharmacological pain management techniques used to assist children and youth required. Demonstrated experience with procedural preparation and supporting children/youth through painful procedures. Demonstrated experience prioritizing referrals from multiple clinical areas. Experience planning and facilitating therapeutic group programs. Volunteer training and supervision experience required. Demonstrated ability to teach and deliver education material to families in an engaging and meaningful way. Demonstrated ability to function independently and within a multidisciplinary team environment. Demonstrated understanding of a Family Centered Care service delivery model. Preferred Qualifications:

Medical Hypnosis training preferred, demonstrating ability to apply techniques of medical hypnosis with children/youth in a variety of clinical settings within the hospital. Motivational Interviewing training preferred. Grief and bereavement experience. Connect care trained.

Please note:

All postings close at 23:59 MT of the posting end date indicated.

Security Screening:

A satisfactory criminal record check and/or Vulnerable Sector Search is required prior to your first day of work. Additionally, all employees have an ongoing duty to disclose any charges or convictions that may occur during their employment with AHS.

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Everything we do at AHS reflects a patient and family centred approach; it's about putting patients' and families' experiences, priorities and trust first.

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