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Certified Child Life Specialist

Minneapolis, MN • On-site

Fairview Health Services
Health Care and Social Assistance • 10K+ employees
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$27.34 - $38.59/hr

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement, PTO

Re-posted 25 days ago

Fairview Health Services rating

7.7

Company rating: 7.7 out of 10

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Job description

Job Overview
Job Overview
Fairview is seeking a compassionate Casual Child & Family Life Specialist to support pediatric patients and families at the University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital in Minneapolis. In this role, you'll use therapeutic play, education, and psychosocial support to help children and families cope with illness, hospitalization, and medical procedures. As a valued member of a multidisciplinary care team, you'll apply your expertise in child development and family systems to create a supportive, healing, and family-centered healthcare experience.
Responsibilities
  • Ability to assess patient and family psychosocial needs and implement therapeutic coping plans.
  • Describe and apply formal and informal techniques to assess developmental and emotional state
  • Identify factors that impact a child and family's vulnerability to stress and trauma and how children and families interpret and make meaning of health, illness, and loss
  • Describe and apply the cyclical process of assessment, plan, intervention, and evaluation of child life services
  • Ability to integrate clinical evidence and fundamental child life knowledge into professional decision making.
  • Identify therapeutic approaches that facilitate open-ended, developmentally-supportive play and expressive arts
  • Utilize play as an assessment tool that encourages patients to express their anxieties, misconceptions, and perceptions of hospital experiences.
  • Ability to provide developmentally appropriate preparation, teaching, and education regarding patients' diagnosis, plan of care, and independent coping skills.
  • Identify basic terminology, processes, and expected plan of care for the population served.
  • Articulate learning styles and needs of individuals with various developmental levels, emotional states, and of diverse backgrounds and experiences.
  • Describe common fears, misconceptions and concerns of individuals in each developmental stage.
  • Determine realistic goals and objectives for learning in collaboration with family members and other healthcare professionals and identify an action plan to achieve these goals.
  • Use accurate and developmentally appropriate teaching aids and techniques to increase knowledge and support emotional needs.
  • Ability to facilitate positive coping experiences and provide developmentally appropriate procedural support during stressful, painful, and traumatic healthcare experiences.
  • Identify types of stressful events affecting children and families, including medical procedures, pain, traumatic life events, loss, end of life, and grief work.
  • Describe immediate and long-term coping styles and techniques, as well as their effect on adjustment and behavior.
  • Articulate and apply effective non-pharmacological pain management techniques.
  • Describe sensory, cognitive, and behavioral coping strategies specific to developmental stages and populations.
  • Implement a team plan for coping support during medical procedures, including parental presence with guidance, comfort positions, role responsibilities, and distraction techniques to help children refocus their attention.
  • Facilitate planning, rehearsal, implementation, and evaluation of coping strategies.
  • Ability to provide opportunities for play for infants, children, youth, and families
  • Articulate and implement theories of human growth and development, play, and family systems
  • Demonstrate the ability to assess individual play needs and incorporate play into daily practice.
  • Facilitate opportunities for play to decrease distress, provide enjoyment and comfort, enhance mastery, and promote healing.
  • Plan and implement appropriate play activities and materials for children and families of diverse cultures, varying developmental needs, and physical abilities.
  • Establish safe and engaging play spaces that promote cross cultural connections, facility group play, and encourage children to choose and explore at their own pace.
  • Ability to provide psychosocial support to patients, siblings, and family systems.
  • Identify types of stressful events affecting children and families, including medical procedures, pain, traumatic life events, loss, end of life, and grief work.
  • Understand the role of communication, particularly active listening and empathic responding, in building relationships with families undergoing stress.
  • Understand the role of self-reflection in aiding patients and families in the process of mourning.
  • Establish and maintain a therapeutic, healing and family-centered environment.
  • Promoting family connections and togetherness during times of separation due to hospitalization or illness.
  • Ability to practice within the scope of professional and personal knowledge and skill base including the supervision of students.
  • Take action to ensure personal responsibilities and professional competencies are maintained and do not fall below a level considered acceptable in the field of practice.
  • Communicate concisely with other healthcare professionals, integrating theory and evidence-based practice to obtain and share pertinent information.
  • Consult with other health professionals to initiate collaboration, offer direction, share insight, and coordinate interventions.
  • Maintain appropriate professional boundaries to preserve the therapeutic relationship as defined by the organization and the ACLP.
  • Incorporate evidence-based practice and research into child life practice through continuing education.
  • Other Professional responsibilities, as assigned.
  • Work as an integral part of the Patient and Family Support Services team in supporting other disciplines in providing patient and family centered care.
  • Utilize and supervise volunteers for child life programming or patient care needs.

Required Qualifications
  • B.S./B.A. in Child Life, Family or Child Development, Counseling, Child Psychology, Education, Social Work, Nursing, or related field.
  • Completion of child life internship as recognized by the ACLP
  • Ability to sit for and pass CCLS certification exam within 180 Days
  • Basic Life Support (American Heart Assoc or Red Cross) within 30 Days

Preferred Qualifications
  • B.S./B.A. in child life or closely related field or
  • M.A./M.S. in child life or closely related field
  • 3 years to 5 years' experience as a CCLS
  • Current CCLS certification

Benefit Overview
Fairview offers a generous benefit package including but not limited to medical, dental, vision plans, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, PTO and Sick and Safe Time, tuition reimbursement, retirement, early access to earned wages, and more! Please follow this link foradditional information: https://www.fairview.org/careers/benefits/noncontract
Compensation Disclaimer
An individual's pay rate within the posted range may be determined by various factors, including skills, knowledge, relevant education, experience, and market conditions. Additionally, our organization prioritizes pay equity and considers internal team equity when making any offer. Hiring at the maximum of the range is not typical. If your role is eligible for a sign-on bonus, the bonus program that is approved and in place at the time of offer, is what will be honored.
EEO Statement
EEO/Vet/Disabled: All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to any lawfully protected status

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Fairview Health Services is an industry-leading, award-winning nonprofit that offers an entire network of healthcare services. Fairview is one part of M Health Fairview, a partnership between the University of Minnesota, M Physicians and Fairview Health Services. Together, we combine the University's deep history of clinical innovation and training with Fairview's extensive roots in community medicine. Our care portfolio includes community hospitals, academic hospitals, primary and specialty care clinics, senior facilities, facilitated living centers, rehabilitation centers, home health care services, counseling, pharmacies and benefit management services.

Industry

Health care and social assistance

Company size

10,000+ Employees

Headquarters location

Minneapolis, MN, US

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