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Job Description:

The Child Life Assistant Interacts directly with pediatric patients, families, and other healthcare team members and facilitates age-appropriate activities to help make the healthcare experience easier for patients and families. The Assistant provides activities in a play setting that reduces patient and family distress, increases effective patient and family coping, fosters patient independence, and promotes optimum development. This role is designed as a career path toward other child development roles and most Child Life Assistants are working towards child life certification through the Association of Child Life Professionals while earning a degree and certifications.

Posting Specifics

• Entry Rate: Based on experience

• Shift Details: Full-time, Temporary (12 week) position, with the potential to be become a permanent position in the future.40 hours a week Wednesday-Saturday

• Wednesday - Friday (8:30am - 7:30pm)Saturday (9:00am - 6:00pm) Saturdays ARE required; some holidays may be required.Meetings will be completed when onsite as needed, mandatory meetings may be watched remotely, or recordings can be watched during regularly scheduled shifts.

• Department: Primary Children's Hospital - Salt Lake City

Additional Details:

• This position is in the Forever Young Zone Playroom, Teen-Room, and Hope Garden.

• Child Life Assistants work under the direction of a child life specialist to provide therapeutic safe environments, developmentally appropriate activities, play-based interventions, and support to patients and families.

• Child life assistants also coordinate volunteer training and scheduling.

• Experience with children and knowledge of Child Development is necessary.

• Knowledge of child cognitive, social and skills of child development

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The Child Life Assistant also accurately assesses and prioritizes developmental needs of the pediatric patient and family and updates child life specialist when patient needs are outside scope of practice. Under the direction of a child life specialist, the Assistant develops, implements, advertises, and evaluates developmentally appropriate play / recreational activities and directs parents, students, and volunteers in providing developmentally appropriate toys to patients and families in play space. This position screens and transports patients to play areas, completes appropriate check-in guidelines and policies to ensure child safety and assists in coordinating special events, holidays, and special visitors.

The Child Life Assistant is required to maintain a clean, safe environment in accordance with infection prevention and safety standards. This includes monitoring and providing a supportive child-friendly environment in play spaces, supervising, orienting, and training students and volunteers as needed. May assist with ordering, receiving, organizing, and distributing supplies.

The Child Life Assistant supports the Child Life Assistants, who will oversee the therapeutic activities for the patients. At times, the Assistant may supervise and independently lead the facility “Kids Clubhouse”, coordinating the work of the volunteers in those spaces.

Minimum Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience working with healthy children or children in a medical or hospital setting.

• Knowledge of child development.

• Computer experience in word processing, spreadsheets, and databases or similar applications.

• Able to work independently and be organized.

• Ability to work in a stressful environment related to patient needs including acute, chronic, and complex disease, and grief and bereavement.

• Maintains appropriate boundaries with patients and families.

Preferred Qualifications

• Associates or bachelor’s degree

• Spanish Speaking

• Completed a child life practicum

• Completed a 600-hour child life internship

• Working towards child life certification through the Association of Child Life Professionals

Physical Requirements:

Anticipated job posting close date:

09/30/2024

Location:

Primary Childrens Hospital

Work City:

Salt Lake City

Work State:

Utah

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

$20.00 - $28.29

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

Learn more about our comprehensive benefits packages for our Idaho, Nevada, and Utah based caregivers (https://intermountainhealthcare.org/careers/working-for-intermountain/employee-benefits/) , and for our Colorado, Montana, and Kansas based caregivers (http://www.sclhealthbenefits.org) ; and our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (https://intermountainhealthcare.org/careers/working-for-intermountain/diversity/) .

Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.