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Imh

Child Life Assistant

Lehi, UT · On-site

$21.02 - $29.72/hr

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 ...

Imh

Child Life Specialist Kids Clubhouse

Lehi, UT · On-site

$24.30 - $37.52/hr

You will work closely with our child life assistant who runs this space supporting programming, therapeutic interventions, and volunteer oversight. Required Qualifications * Bachelor's degree.

Imh

Child Life Specialist Weekends

Lehi, UT · On-site

$24.30 - $37.52/hr

Provides supervision to volunteers, child life pre-internship students and child life assistants. Click on the video link below to see "A Day in the Life of a Child Life Specialist" $1500 Sign-On ...

Imh

$24.30 - $37.52/hr

Provides supervision to volunteers, child life pre-internship students and child life assistants. Click on the video link below to see "A Day in the Life of a Child Life Specialist" $3000 Sign-On ...

Imh

$24.30 - $37.52/hr

Provides supervision to volunteers, child life pre-internship students and child life assistants. Click on the video link below to see "A Day in the Life of a Child Life Specialist" $1500 Sign-On ...

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How much do child life assistant jobs pay per hour?

As of Aug 12, 2026, the average hourly pay for child life assistant in Utah is $15.24, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $13.12 and $16.39 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

How does a child life assistant typically collaborate with child life specialists and healthcare teams to support pediatric patients?

Child Life Assistants work closely with Child Life Specialists and other healthcare professionals to create a supportive environment for children in medical settings. They help implement therapeutic play activities, prepare materials, and assist with distraction techniques during procedures. Regular communication and teamwork with nurses, doctors, and Child Life Specialists are essential to ensure the emotional and developmental needs of pediatric patients are met. This collaborative approach helps provide holistic care and enhances the overall hospital experience for children and their families.

What is a child life assistant?

Child Life Assistants are healthcare professionals who support Child Life Specialists in helping children and families cope with hospitalization, illness, and medical procedures. They assist in providing therapeutic play, activities, and emotional support to pediatric patients. Their role includes preparing play materials, interacting with children, maintaining a safe play environment, and supporting the psychosocial needs of young patients. Child Life Assistants work in hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare settings to make the hospital experience less stressful for children.

What does a child life assistant do?

The job duties of a child life assistant involve providing support for children and their families when they are in a hospital or receiving inpatient medical care in a healthcare facility. Your responsibilities in this career include planning activities for a patient based on their interests, physical abilities, and psychological and social needs. You may involve therapeutic play that is meant to reduce stress and give patients, parents, and siblings normal interactions and experiences while they are in a hospital setting. As a child life assistant, you may also distribute donations of toys and coordinate volunteers and celebrity visits.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a child life assistant, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Child Life Assistant, you need a background in child development or a related field, often accompanied by relevant coursework or experience in pediatric care settings. Familiarity with hospital protocols, educational play tools, and documentation systems is typically required. Compassion, patience, and strong communication skills help build trust with children and support collaboration with healthcare teams. These abilities are crucial for providing emotional support, reducing anxiety, and ensuring a positive experience for young patients in medical environments.
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Child Life Assistant

Imh

Lehi, UT • On-site

$21.02 - $29.72/hr

Full-time

Posted 8 days ago

Job description

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. Under the direction of a child life specialist, the child life 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.
Job Description

Posting Specifics

  • Entry Rate: Based on experience

  • Shift Details: EVERY Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday (8:00am - 6:30pm). 10 hour shifts. Availability to pick up holidays

  • Located at Primary Children's Hospital - Lehi Campus

  • Additional Details: This position will be supporting the in-patient playroom and teen room. Oversight of playroom programming, events, and volunteers alongside a certified child life specialist.

Required 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

  • Associate or bachelor's degree

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

  • Work experience as a child life assistant.

  • Completion of child life pre-internship/practicum

  • Completion of a 600-hour child life internship.

  • Spanish speaking

Essential Functions

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Maintains a clean, safe environment in accordance with infection prevention and safety standards.

  • Monitors and provides a supportive child-friendly environment in play spaces; supervises, orients, and trains students and volunteers as needed.

  • Assists with ordering, receiving, organizing, and distributing supplies.

  • Supervises and independently leads the facility "Kids Clubhouse," coordinating the work of the volunteers in those spaces.

Skills

  • Relationship building

  • Supervision

  • Teamwork

  • Critical thinking

  • Communication

  • Interpersonal skills

  • Patience

  • Decisiveness

  • Emotional intelligence

  • Creativity

Physical Requirements

  • Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and assess issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations to maintain safety

  • Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, documents, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs.

  • Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use for typing, accessing needed information, etc.

  • Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients. Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.

Location:

Primary Childrens at Lehi

Work City:

Lehi

Work State:

Utah

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

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

$21.02 - $29.72

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