Child Life Specialist

Job Description :

Interacts directly with pediatric patients, families and other health team members and facilitates age-appropriate interactions and activities to help make the health care experience easier for patients and families. Reduces patient and family distress, increases effective patient and family coping, fosters patient independence, and promotes optimum development. Provides supervision to volunteers, child life pre-internship students and child life assistants.

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Posting Specifics

• Pay Rate : $24.06 - $37.15 based on experience.
• Shift Details : Full-time (40 hrs / wk)
• This position will be starting a Child Life Specialist role at Intermountain Medical Center (IMC) in Salt Lake City, UT.
• IMC supports primarily adults with support to pediatric patients in the Emergency Department.
• In addition, this position would support children of adult patients on the intensive care units.
• This Child Life Specialist will start with five 8-hour shifts to build a foundation for programming, staff education, and pediatric interventions and support.
• Overtime, this position will ideally be four 10-hour shifts to cover high pediatric volume ED admissions in addition to supporting children of adult patients when a parental figure is diagnosed with a chronic or life-limiting illness.
• Department : Child Life at Intermountain Medical Center
• Additional Details : This is a unique opportunity to start a Child Life program at Intermountain Medical Center supporting pediatric patients in the Emergency Department and children of adult consults.

Required Qualifications

Essential Functions

Skills

Preferred Qualifications

Physical Requirements :

Location :

Intermountain Health Intermountain Medical Center

Work City : Murray

Work State : Utah

Scheduled Weekly Hours :

40

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

$24.06 - $37.15

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.

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