Child Life Specialist Certified, Centre-wide

2 weeks ago

Halifax, Canada IWK Health Centre Full time

**Company** : IWK Health**:
**Req ID**:167740
**Department/Program**:Child Life Centrewide, Children's Health Program
**Location**: Halifax
**Type of Employment**:Permanent Hourly FT (100% FTE) x 2 position(s)
**Start Date**: ASAP
**Union Status**: NSGEU Hlthcare, Healthcare Bargaining Unit
**Compensation**: $32.1558**:

- **$40.4037 /hour
**Closing Date**: November 28, 2023 (Applications are accepted until 23:59 Atlantic Time)

IWK Health is a respected academic health sciences centre located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, providing tertiary and primary care for two million children, youth, adults and families each year across the Atlantic region. We have a team of approximately 4000 employees, physicians, volunteers and learners at sites across Nova Scotia. People build careers with IWK Health with our focus on training and mentorship opportunities. We recognize each other’s talent and celebrate our successes. We collaborate in modern facilities or virtually from home, align our work to our values, and enjoy access to enhanced benefits and wellness programs. We are proud to support our patients, families and communities and are grateful for the generous donor support we receive.

**The Opportunity**:
Reporting to the Manager, Child Life Services, with accountability to the Professional Practice Chief of Child Life Services for issues pertaining to professional standards of practice and ethics, the Child Life Specialist will work collaboratively as a member of interdisciplinary care teams.

Child Life Specialists strive to reduce the impact of stressful or traumatic life events and situations which effect the development, health and well being of infants, children, youth and families. Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to: utilizing the Child Life Assessment Intervention Plan to determine the patient and family’s vulnerability and response to stress from their health care experience; assessing and supporting patients and/or families regarding coping strategies during stressful events, medical procedures or changes in a family members medical condition; collaborating with the health care team to develop and support patient goals and the child life plan of care; initiating child life therapeutic interventions consequent to assessment to address their social, emotional and developmental needs; evaluating interventions provided; establishing and maintaining a supportive, helpful and trusting relationship with patients and families, students, volunteers and the health centre’s administration.

The child life specialist acts as an advocate for individual patients’/family’s’ concerns, special needs and rights, makes appropriate referrals within the hospital and community; represents Child Life on committees, rounds, conferences and hospital and community initiatives where there is concern for the psychosocial, emotional and developmental needs of children, youth and families; examines the strengths and areas for improvement in child life service; completing administrative tasks (i.e. Workload Measurement) as required.

**Hours of Work**:
Monday to Friday (7.5 hour days)

**Your Qualifications**:

- Eligibility for Child Life certification at the time of hire is required.
- Certification or successful child life internship experience supervised by a certified child life specialist required.
- Bachelor Degree with a minimum of ten (10) courses that meet child life certification requirements is required.
- Current Certification by Child Life Council preferred; Successful applicant will be required to successfully obtain child life certification within one (1) year of employment as a child life specialist.
- Demonstrated competence in: Growth & Development, Functions of Play, Therapeutic Processes and Boundaries, Ethical Child Life Practice, Behaviour Management, Principles of Learning/Teaching.
- Demonstrated ability to provide non-medical preparation and support for children undergoing tests, surgeries, medical procedures and transition to home or community programs.
- Demonstrated skill in working with children, youth with health or behavioural challenges.
- Demonstrated effective decision making abilities.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, as well as the ability to work as part of an interdisciplinary team,
- Demonstrated initiative to work independently with mínimal supervision.
- Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office.
- Competency in other languages an asset.

Thank you for your interest in IWK Health.

Please note that we only contact applicants selected for interview/testing. If we invite you to participate in an assessment process (such as an interview or testing) you have the right to request accommodation. Please discuss your needs when invited to the assessment process.

This is a Healthcare bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. Successful applicants changing unions, bargaining units or employment status, a

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