Child Life Specialist PRN

Child Life Specialist PRN

Here at Baylor Scott & White Health we promote the well-being of all individuals, families, and communities. Baylor Scott and White is the largest not-for-profit healthcare system in Texas that empowers you to live well.

Our Core Values are:

• We serve faithfully by doing what's right with a joyful heart.
• We never settle by constantly striving for better.
• We are in it together by supporting one another and those we serve.
• We make an impact by taking initiative and delivering exceptional experience.

The Child Life Specialist PRN will support pediatric patients and families emotionally, socially, and developmentally. They will enhance care quality during illness or injury, including end of life and bereavement.

Essential Functions of the Role:

• Works to provide psychosocial care and advocate for pediatric patients. Ensures they receive medical care under optimal and positive circumstances.
• Provides therapeutic medical play and preparation sessions with patients and families. These sessions effectively teach medical procedures and coping strategies.
• Provides therapeutic opportunities that help a patient express and understand feelings related to medical experiences, illness, or handicaps.
• Provides emotional support to families and patients through various interventions. Promotes acceptance of and coping with illness and medical encounters. Participates in planning safe, developmentally helpful environments for patients and families professionally.
• Provides age and developmentally appropriate activities that effectively promote the cognitive and emotional growth of patients.
• Functions as an effective member of multidisciplinary teams to improve the medical experience of patients and families. Communicates relevant patient observations to the health care team in written and verbal formats. Provides orientation and teaching of Child Life concepts to volunteers, medical, and nursing students as opportunities arise.
• Coordinates and plans special events for patients (i.e., birthday parties, celebrity visitors, etc.), as needed.

Key Success Factors:

• Possesses expansive knowledge of child development, child life theory and evidence-based practice, and childhood trauma and grief and therapeutic interventions.
• Demonstrates exceptional verbal and non-verbal communication skills. This includes appropriate language, facial expressions, listening, emotional regulation, empathy, social awareness, relationship management, self-awareness, affective matching, and presentation skills.
• Displays cultural proficiency and respects patients, families, and medical staff with diverse backgrounds.
• Possesses effective time-management and prioritization skills for all child life tasks and responsibilities, comfort and confidence working with minimal supervision.
• Proactively seeks out opportunities to give education to medical staff about child life services.
• Advocates for the psychosocial well-being of children. Manages intense emotional stress when working with children and families facing serious illness, injury, end-of-life, death, and bereavement.
• Possesses excellent documentation skills with appropriate verbiage, punctuation, spelling and professional tone.
• Cert Child Life Specialist (CCLS) OR obtain certification within 3 months of hire.

We believe that all people should feel welcomed, valued and supported.

Qualifications:

• Education - Bachelor's Degree
• Experience - Less than (1) one year of experience
• Certification/License/Registration:
• Basic Life Support (BLS) or obtain within (30) thirty days of hire or transfer.
• Cert Child Life Specialist (CCLS): OR obtain certification within (3) three months of hire.