Child Life Specialist - Dayton, OH
1 day ago

Job description
Shriners Children's Ohio has an opportunity for a PRN Child Life Specialist. Join a team of professionals committed to improving children's lives. Our top healthcare professionals excel in their practices and provide compassionate, family-centered care to children who need it most.
- Provides evaluation and therapeutic services, direct patient care and patient/family education, in an efficient manner. Services may include therapeutic play, preparation, procedural support, special events, and reintegration programming. The child life specialist utilizes these practices in an effort to facilitate adaptive coping techniques and promote normal growth and development of the patient and family.
- Performs an individualized assessment to collect comprehensive and accurate data necessary to assess development, temperament, coping style, medical plan, cultural preferences and practices and available social supports in order to develop an individualized development plan.
- Plans and implements an individualized treatment plan that identifies goals and evidence based treatment intervention strategies
- Participates in interdisciplinary patient care planning
- Utilizes the EMR to document relevant patient and family information
- Plans, implements or assists with camps/workshops/special events.
- Functions as a team member and develops leadership through activities such as mentoring and providing education to students and other professionals.
This is not an all-inclusive list of this job's responsibilities. The incumbent may be required to perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.
Required:
- Bachelor's degree in Child Life, Child Development or related field
- Certified Child Life Specialist, or be eligible to sit for the certification exam and obtain within 6 months of employment
Preferred:
- Masters degree in Child Life, Child Development or related field
- One year's experience in a hospital child life program
Shriners Children's is an EOE/Drug-Free, Smoke-Free Workplace.
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