Child Life Specialist Full Time

3 weeks ago

Ottawa, Canada CHEO Full time

**Open Date**
- Jan 09 2023 - 04:00:00 PM**Close Date**
- Jan 15 2023 - 11:59:00 PM**Position Title**
- Child Life Specialist Full Time (1.0) / Spécialiste du milieu de l’enfant à temps plein (1.0)**Posting Type**
- OPSEU**Posting Status**
- Active**Position Length**
- Full Time (1.0) / à temps plein (1,0)**Department Group**

**Hours per Week**

**Department**
- Development and Rehabilitation / Développement et de réadaptation**Openings**
- 1**Education**
- Bachelor's Degree / Baccalauréat**Company**
- CHEO**Location**
- Ottawa**Competition**
- 22-1704**Salary Range**
- From / De: $34.54 to / à $42.39 per hour / par heureFrom / De: $34.54 to / à $42.39 per hour / par heure**Description**:
**DESCRIPTION**:
**The child life specialist will provide opportunities for therapeutic and leisure play, promote optimum development of children and youth, and help patients and families adjust to and understand health care experiences. As part of the inter-professional team, the child life specialist will prepare and support children and youth during medical tests and procedures. Initial clinical assignment hematology/oncology, nephrology, PICU and program champion for events, celebrations and virtual groups. This position may involve evening hours and weekend**:
***:

- Assess the psychosocial needs of patients and families using theories of human growth and development and family systems.
- Assess patient’s development level, temperament and coping style and provide a variety of play and therapeutic activities which promote self-expression, understanding, and mastery of medical experiences.
- Plan group processes while incorporating individual therapeutic goals to match patient needs.
- In collaboration with the inter-professional team, develop individual treatment plans in accordance with prognosis, limitations, disease process, nature of illness, and available social supports.
- Organize and prepare activity areas to promote therapeutic activities taking into consideration a variety of mobility needs and a wide age span.
- Use developmentally appropriate medical teaching tools to prepare patients, siblings, and families for diagnostic and treatment procedures.
- Provide emotional support during intensified stress points and utilize stress reduction techniques to facilitate adaptive coping.
- Leads the development, planning, organization and implementation of child life special events, celebrations, and groups. Liaises and communicate with other team members
- Supervise volunteers working within the programs.
- Participates in education and improvement activities.

**QUALIFICATIONS**:

- Police Record Check (PRC) (Essential)
- Baccalaureate in Child Life, Child and Family Studies, Therapeutic Recreation or related field (Essential)
- Current Child Life Certification (CCLS) through Child Life Council (Essential)
- Bilingualism (English/French) (preferred)
- Minimum of two (2) years of experience in a pediatric health care setting (Essential)
- **Please note you will be represented by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU).**

**Description**:
**Le ou la titulaire fournira des occasions de jeux thérapeutiques et ludiques, encouragera le développement optimal des enfants et des adolescents, et aidera les patients et les familles à s’adapter à leurs expériences de santé et à les comprendre. Partie intégrante de l’équipe multidisciplinaire, il ou elle préparera et soutiendra les enfants et les adolescents en vue des tests médicaux et des interventions afférentes. La première affectation de ce poste est en clinique hématologie oncologie, néphrologie, soins intensifs et aussi responsable de coordination d’évènements, célébrations et groupes virtuelles.**:
**Ce poste requiert de travailler en soirée et fin de semaine occasionnelles.**

**RÉSUMÉ DES FONCTIONS**
- Évaluer les besoins psychosociaux des patients et de leur famille à l’aide des théories sur la croissance humaine, le développement et les systèmes familiaux.
- Évaluer le niveau de développement du patient, son tempérament, son style d’adaptation et fournir toute une gamme d’activités thérapeutiques et ludiques visant à promouvoir l’expression de soi, la compréhension et la maîtrise des expériences médicales.
- Planifier des processus à vivre en groupe tout en y incorporant des objectifs thérapeutiques individuels qui correspondent aux besoins des patients.
- De concert avec l’équipe multidisciplinaire, élaborer des plans de traitement individuels en conformité avec le pronostic, les limites, l’évolution et la nature de la maladie, ainsi que la disponibilité des moyens de soutiens sociaux.
- Organiser des aires d’activités afin de faciliter les activités thérapeutiques qui tiennent compte de besoins divers de mobilité et d’une vaste fourchette d’âges.
- Utiliser des outils de développement et d’enseignement médical spécifiques en vue de préparer les patients, leurs

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