Northwell Health
Associate Child Life Specialist
Northwell Health, Kensington Village Mobile Home Park, New York, United States
Overview
Based on current plan-of-care, engages in routine psychosocial activities with children and their families to provide emotional support and identify opportunities to recommend and implement approved coping strategies. Participates in developing, implementing and evaluating psychosocial programs fostering emotional, developmental, intellectual and physical growth of children in a hospital environment and outpatient setting. Participates in orienting other hospital staff to the psychosocial needs of children and their families and fosters positive hospital community relations. Base pay range $64,350.00/yr - $86,060.00/yr 160288 Job Description Provides routine psychosocial care for children and families designed to reduce stress, increase adaptive coping, and enhance developmental integrity by offering opportunities to play, learn, and interact with others in an emotionally and physically safe environment. Uses developmentally appropriate and approved play experiences as a primary tool in helping to assess and meet the child’s psychosocial needs in the health-care setting. Provides varied activities per patient’s plan of care, condition and need. Provides design input for patient activity areas to promote use, orientation, personalization, comfort and security. Sets up and organizes activity areas to carry out planned, approved activities. Creates a welcoming environment. Greets and introduces self and role upon initial contact with patient/family; Recommends appropriate patients to hospital school. Provides opportunities for and facilitates planned play and activities intended to promote self-healing, self-expression, understanding and mastery in an individual and group setting. Recognizes and addresses importance of therapeutic play in facilitating child’s mastery and coping with health-care experience (i.e., medical play, creative arts). Allows patient/family to make choices and decisions to maximize feelings of control (e.g., what position is most comfortable, what coping technique to utilize, what toy to hold). Participates in developing a plan-of-care based on assessment of child’s development, temperament, coping style, medical plan and available social support using therapeutic play as a diagnostic and treatment tool. Monitors, records and reports child’s perception of his/her diagnosis and treatment as revealed through play and other means of communication. Provides basic, approved emotional support and stress reduction techniques during identified stress points. Offers basic support and counsel to family members to assist with their adaptation to the child’s illness and health-care experiences and deal with their own stress and needs. Performs related duties as required. All responsibilities noted here are considered essential functions of the job under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Duties not mentioned here, but considered related are not essential functions. Job Qualifications Bachelors Degree in Child Life, Child Development, Psychology, Sociology or other Psychosocial-related field is required; Masters Degree is preferred. Completion of a Child Life Internship with a minimum of 600 hours, under the supervision of a Certified Child Life Specialist, required. Child Life Certification required within 12 months of hire. Additional Salary Detail: The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future. When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity). Seniority level Not Applicable Employment type Full-time Job function Other Industries Hospitals and Health Care Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Northwell Health by 2x Get notified about new Child Life Specialist jobs in
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Based on current plan-of-care, engages in routine psychosocial activities with children and their families to provide emotional support and identify opportunities to recommend and implement approved coping strategies. Participates in developing, implementing and evaluating psychosocial programs fostering emotional, developmental, intellectual and physical growth of children in a hospital environment and outpatient setting. Participates in orienting other hospital staff to the psychosocial needs of children and their families and fosters positive hospital community relations. Base pay range $64,350.00/yr - $86,060.00/yr 160288 Job Description Provides routine psychosocial care for children and families designed to reduce stress, increase adaptive coping, and enhance developmental integrity by offering opportunities to play, learn, and interact with others in an emotionally and physically safe environment. Uses developmentally appropriate and approved play experiences as a primary tool in helping to assess and meet the child’s psychosocial needs in the health-care setting. Provides varied activities per patient’s plan of care, condition and need. Provides design input for patient activity areas to promote use, orientation, personalization, comfort and security. Sets up and organizes activity areas to carry out planned, approved activities. Creates a welcoming environment. Greets and introduces self and role upon initial contact with patient/family; Recommends appropriate patients to hospital school. Provides opportunities for and facilitates planned play and activities intended to promote self-healing, self-expression, understanding and mastery in an individual and group setting. Recognizes and addresses importance of therapeutic play in facilitating child’s mastery and coping with health-care experience (i.e., medical play, creative arts). Allows patient/family to make choices and decisions to maximize feelings of control (e.g., what position is most comfortable, what coping technique to utilize, what toy to hold). Participates in developing a plan-of-care based on assessment of child’s development, temperament, coping style, medical plan and available social support using therapeutic play as a diagnostic and treatment tool. Monitors, records and reports child’s perception of his/her diagnosis and treatment as revealed through play and other means of communication. Provides basic, approved emotional support and stress reduction techniques during identified stress points. Offers basic support and counsel to family members to assist with their adaptation to the child’s illness and health-care experiences and deal with their own stress and needs. Performs related duties as required. All responsibilities noted here are considered essential functions of the job under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Duties not mentioned here, but considered related are not essential functions. Job Qualifications Bachelors Degree in Child Life, Child Development, Psychology, Sociology or other Psychosocial-related field is required; Masters Degree is preferred. Completion of a Child Life Internship with a minimum of 600 hours, under the supervision of a Certified Child Life Specialist, required. Child Life Certification required within 12 months of hire. Additional Salary Detail: The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future. When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity). Seniority level Not Applicable Employment type Full-time Job function Other Industries Hospitals and Health Care Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Northwell Health by 2x Get notified about new Child Life Specialist jobs in
New Hyde Park, NY .
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