Child Life Specialist Inpatient and Outpatient Pediatric units

• Benefits from Day One
• Paid Days Off from Day One
• As a valued member of our child life team at AdventHealth, you’ll join a well-established, cohesive group that fosters mutual support and embraces play. Our clinical ladder provides exciting career advancement potential, complemented by ongoing educational support to help you maintain your child life certification.

Why Choose Us?:

• Supportive Environment: We have a robust child life team that values support, fosters growth opportunities, and encourages teamwork.
• Impact: Your work directly impacts the lives of children and helps empower them for future healthcare experiences.
• Professional Development: We invest in your ongoing learning and encourage professional growth through our child life clinical advancement program.
• Competitive Compensation: Benefit from a competitive salary with ongoing market analysis and comprehensive benefits.

Unit Highlights

• Promote positive coping for patients and families during healthcare experiences by providing support, education, and creative interventions to help children and families navigate healthcare challenges with resilience and emotional regulation.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team and child life peers to foster teamwork and promote exceptional patient care.
• Apply assessment skills to gain a comprehensive understanding of patient and family coping.
• Incorporate a variety of interventions to include play, self-expression, and socialization to reduce stress and anxiety for patients and families while providing opportunities to promote mastery and control.

Schedule: Full Time

Shift: Tuesday-Friday 10:00am-8:30pm and one weekend day every other month. This position serves our inpatient and outpatient pediatric units.

The Community You’ll Be Caring For

• Located on a lush tropical campus, our flagship hospital, 1,368-bed AdventHealth Orlando
• Serves as the major tertiary facility for much of the Southeast, the Caribbean and South AmericaAdventHealth Orlando houses one of the largest Emergency Departments and largest cardiac catheterization labs in the country
• We are already one of the busiest hospitals in the nation, providing service excellence to more than 32,000 inpatients and 125,000 outpatients each year.

The Role You’ll Contribute

Joining AdventHealth is about being part of something bigger. It’s about belonging to a community that believes in the wholeness of each person, and serves to uplift others in body, mind and spirit. AdventHealth is a place where you can thrive professionally, and grow spiritually, by Extending the Healing Ministry of Christ. Where you will be valued for who you are and the unique experiences you bring to our purpose-minded team. All while understanding that together we are even better.

At AdventHealth, child life specialists play a crucial role in promoting positive experiences for both children and families throughout their healthcare experience. Child life specialists focus on the psychosocial development of children, provide emotional support, developmentally appropriate information, and play opportunities to increase understanding and coping with medical procedures, diagnoses, pain management and grief. Child life specialists also address the needs of siblings or other children affected by a patient’s illness/diagnosis. Child life specialists at AdventHealth utilize play and self-expressive activities as primary resources to minimize the stress and anxiety patients and families may face during healthcare experiences. Child life specialists are highly respected and valued by both multidisciplinary team members and administration at AdventHealth. Child life specialists actively participate in outstanding customer service and accepts responsibility in maintaining relationships that are equally respectful to all.

The Value You’ll Bring To The Team

• Assess the developmental needs and risk factors of infants-young adults and provide resources appropriate to promote positive coping skills and diversional needs while establishing therapeutic relationships.
• Utilize researched based best practice methods and modalities of preparing pediatric patients for stressful healthcare experiences and procedures.
• Provide emotional support to assist with patient/family coping and utilize stress reduction techniques to facilitate positive coping during procedures and throughout the healthcare experience.
• Utilize play as a primary resource for patients/siblings to enhance coping, promote opportunities for mastery/control and socialization while utilizing all technology and innovative resources available.
• Support education and skills of interdisciplinary team to advocate/enhance atraumatic care and comfort techniques throughout AdventHealth and serve as a resource for staff.
• Receive and complete referrals from interdisciplinary staff to assist with coping and adjustment of patients with acute and chronic illnesses.
• Provide support at end of life for siblings and family members of pediatric patients including but not limited to age-appropriate education, memory making, and room visits.

Qualifications

The Expertise And Experiences You’ll Need To Succeed

• Bachelor’s degree in Child Life, Education, Recreation Therapy, Child Development, Psychology or related field
• Child life internship must be completed by date of hire
• Must become certified as a child life specialist within one year of date of hire.

This facility is an equal opportunity employer and complies with federal, state and local anti-discrimination laws, regulations and ordinances. The salary range reflects the anticipated base pay range for this position. Individual compensation is determined based on skills, experience and other relevant factors within this pay range. The minimums and maximums for each position may vary based on geographical