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. Posting Specifics Entry Rate: Based on Experience Shift Details: Full and Part-time positions available at several Intermountain Locations. Primary Location would be Primary Children's Miller Campus (Lehi)
Other Facilities Include : McKay-Dee Hospital, Park City / Heber Hospitals, Primary Children's Hospital (Salt Lake City), Primary Children's Riverton, and St. George Hospital
Additional Details: Child life experience in a medical or hospital setting. A 600-hour Child Life Internship MUST be completed to be eligible for certification. New grads will need to provide their internship completion certificate signed by their Intern supervisor to show incumbent has successfully completed their 600 hours prior to starting. Job Essentials Accurately assesses, prioritizes, and documents pediatric patient and family care.
Develops, implements, and evaluates effective pediatric patient and family centered health care plans.
Provides developmentally-appropriate education, psychological procedural preparation, coping support, comfort management, and play opportunities, to pediatric patients and families.
Participates in selection, supervision, and training of practicum students and volunteers.
Assists with orienting, training and mentoring new employees.
Location: Intermountain Health Heber Valley Hospital, Intermountain Health McKay-Dee Hospital, Intermountain Health Park City Hospital, Primary Childrens at Lehi, Primary Childrens at Riverton, Primary Childrens Hospital, St George Regional Hospital
Work State: Utah
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
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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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.
Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree . Education must be obtained from an accredited institution. Degree will be verified.
Child Life Certification from Association of Child Life Professionals (ACLP) or eligible for Child Life Certification (to be obtained within 9 months of hire date). A 600-hour Child Life Internship MUST be completed to be eligible for certification. Child life experience in a medical or hospital setting. Computer experience in word processing, spreadsheets, and databases or similar applications.
Experience in Child Life Core Competencies which include but are not limited to: 1) Establishing supportive relationships 2) Meeting needs of child and family members, with a focus on social, emotional, and cognitive development. 3) Providing education to and communicating with children, families and team members 4) Providing coping support and comfort management 5) Guiding children in therapeutic play techniques 6) Ongoing assessment and written documentation of clinical care.
Successfully completed a 600-hour child life internship with completion documentation. Physical Requirements: Carrying, Hearing/Listening, Lifting, Manual Dexterity, Pushing/Pulling, Seeing, Speaking, Squatting/Kneeling, Standing, Walking. Preferred Qualifications: Master's degree.
1 year of Child Life work experience in a medical or hospital setting.
Spanish Speaking.
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As the largest nonprofit health system in the Mountain West, Intermountain Health is dedicated to creating healthier communities and helping our patients and caregivers thrive. It's time to think of health in a whole new way, and by partnering with our patients and communities, providing expert care closer to home, and making great health more affordable, we can help more people get and stay well. We proudly invest back into improving the care we deliver, and our pioneering research is making healthcare more personalized, effective, and affordable. Serving patients and communities throughout the Mountain West, primarily in Colorado, Utah, Montana, Nevada, Idaho, and Wyoming, Intermountain includes 33 hospitals, 300+ clinics, a medical group, affiliate networks, homecare, telehealth, health insurance plans, and other services - along with wholly owned subsidiaries including Select Health, Castell, Tellica Imaging, and Classic Air Medical. Our Caregiver Promise: Together, for the healthiest lives We celebrate the different perspectives, backgrounds, experiences, and identities our caregivers bring to their work every day at Intermountain. Across all areas of our i ... ntegrated health system, we proudly share best practices, knowledge, and techniques to better serve our patients, communities, and each other. Here, you'll work alongside collaborative and curious minds who will support you, encourage you, inspire you, advocate for you, and challenge you to be your very best. Our Values Our value statements are core to our culture. They reflect the behavior and attitudes that are important to us, are an agreement for how we treat each other, help us make decisions on how to act, and are a promise of what people can expect from us. Our action-oriented values, inspired and shaped by our own caregivers, speak to what it means to be part of Intermountain. - We are leaders in clinical excellence, delivering safe, best-in-quality care - We believe in what we do, living our mission every day - We serve with empathy, caring for each caregiver, patient, and member with compassion and respect - We are partners in health, collaborating to keep people well - We do the right thing, learning and acting with purpose - We are better together, building community through teamwork and belonging Show more
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