Child Life Specialist
Jacksonville, FL, United States11h ago
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- Location
- Jacksonville, FL, United States
- Work style
- Onsite
- Function
- Operations & Strategy
- Focus area
- other
- Posted
- 11h ago
Skills
behavior management
About the role
Position Summary
The Community Hospice Child Life Specialist coordinates and provides therapeutic activities and opportunities for children up to age 21 of Community Hospice patients as they deal with the impending death of their parent or custodial grandparent/family member. Child life interventions will be provided in Community Hospice Centers for Caring, partner long-term care facilities, and Community Hospice patients’ homes. The position supports medical, nursing, pastoral, and social work/psychosocial providers working with the families.
Requires occasional evening and weekend work.
Essential Functions
Provides memory making, legacy building activities, and anticipatory grief/bereavement support to child/children impacted by their loved one’s terminal illness and/or potential death.
Provides child-life focused education to parents/caregivers on topics that include coping strategies, memory making, behavioral management appropriate to the child’s development, behavioral management, memory making, and coping strategies.
Provides therapeutic play activities to facilitate expression of feelings and coping skills for the impacted child(ren).
Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team to screen for patients most appropriate for child life interventions.
Develops individual plans of care based on assessment of the child’s need, development, temperament, coping style, medical situation, and available support.
Provides patients and families opportunities for medical play, memory making, distraction, activity modification, coping, and other child life-associated activities, to support the child and family and, as appropriate, to normalize the situation.
Collaborates with Community Hospice social work/psychosocial specialist on patient/family psychosocial needs to ensure interventions specific to child life focus.
Maintains ongoing inter-team communication related to child(ren) responses to child life interventions and observations.
Helps parents to understand their child's response to child life interventions; assist child(ren) in better understanding their loved one’s illness/condition.
Educates patients, families, and staff on child-life appropriate coping and support techniques.
Demonstrates professionalism by developing, facilitating, and/or accomplishing skills and programs that reflect the state of art of child life.
Contributes to the collaborative plan of care for patients through participation in weekly interdisciplinary team meetings as appropriate and able.
Participates in professional groups and advisory boards related to pediatric and adult hospice and palliative care.
Participates in planning and implementation of organizational remembrance events and support groups.
Participates in education to staff and community on child-life related topics.
Maintains professional certification.
Demonstrates tact, sensitivity, professional attitudes and judgment relating to patients, families and colleagues.
Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Knowledge and Critical Skills
Principles and practices of child development, therapeutic recreation.
Dynamics of family relationships and family systems
Skilled at:
Effective communication and listening skills
Ability to work within framework of interdisciplinary team
Experience
Must have child development/child life or therapeutic recreation experience
License / Certification
Current State of Florida driver’s license with driving record acceptable to Community Hospice insurance carrier.
Must be certified as a Child Life Specialist by the Child Life Certifying Commission under the Child Life Council
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Child Development or Therapeutic Recreation
Must have child development/child life or therapeutic recreation experience
Other Requirements
Medical clearance for communicable diseases and current immunizations required before participant contact.
The knowledge, skills and abilities listed above are typically acquired through the levels of education and experience listed. However, any equivalent combination of education and/or experience, which provide an applicant with the listed knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the essential duties and responsibilities of the job, is acceptable.
This description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, qualifications, or working conditions required of employees in this position. The organization reserves the right to modify or amend the duties of the position or to require that additional tasks be performed as organizational needs change. This description does not constitute a contract of employment, and employment with the organization is at-will, meaning either the employee or the organization may terminate the relationship at any time, with or without cause or notice.
The Community Hospice Child Life Specialist coordinates and provides therapeutic activities and opportunities for children up to age 21 of Community Hospice patients as they deal with the impending death of their parent or custodial grandparent/family member. Child life interventions will be provided in Community Hospice Centers for Caring, partner long-term care facilities, and Community Hospice patients’ homes. The position supports medical, nursing, pastoral, and social work/psychosocial providers working with the families.
Requires occasional evening and weekend work.
Essential Functions
Provides memory making, legacy building activities, and anticipatory grief/bereavement support to child/children impacted by their loved one’s terminal illness and/or potential death.
Provides child-life focused education to parents/caregivers on topics that include coping strategies, memory making, behavioral management appropriate to the child’s development, behavioral management, memory making, and coping strategies.
Provides therapeutic play activities to facilitate expression of feelings and coping skills for the impacted child(ren).
Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team to screen for patients most appropriate for child life interventions.
Develops individual plans of care based on assessment of the child’s need, development, temperament, coping style, medical situation, and available support.
Provides patients and families opportunities for medical play, memory making, distraction, activity modification, coping, and other child life-associated activities, to support the child and family and, as appropriate, to normalize the situation.
Collaborates with Community Hospice social work/psychosocial specialist on patient/family psychosocial needs to ensure interventions specific to child life focus.
Maintains ongoing inter-team communication related to child(ren) responses to child life interventions and observations.
Helps parents to understand their child's response to child life interventions; assist child(ren) in better understanding their loved one’s illness/condition.
Educates patients, families, and staff on child-life appropriate coping and support techniques.
Demonstrates professionalism by developing, facilitating, and/or accomplishing skills and programs that reflect the state of art of child life.
Contributes to the collaborative plan of care for patients through participation in weekly interdisciplinary team meetings as appropriate and able.
Participates in professional groups and advisory boards related to pediatric and adult hospice and palliative care.
Participates in planning and implementation of organizational remembrance events and support groups.
Participates in education to staff and community on child-life related topics.
Maintains professional certification.
Demonstrates tact, sensitivity, professional attitudes and judgment relating to patients, families and colleagues.
Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Knowledge and Critical Skills
Principles and practices of child development, therapeutic recreation.
Dynamics of family relationships and family systems
Skilled at:
Effective communication and listening skills
Ability to work within framework of interdisciplinary team
Experience
Must have child development/child life or therapeutic recreation experience
License / Certification
Current State of Florida driver’s license with driving record acceptable to Community Hospice insurance carrier.
Must be certified as a Child Life Specialist by the Child Life Certifying Commission under the Child Life Council
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Child Development or Therapeutic Recreation
Must have child development/child life or therapeutic recreation experience
Other Requirements
Medical clearance for communicable diseases and current immunizations required before participant contact.
The knowledge, skills and abilities listed above are typically acquired through the levels of education and experience listed. However, any equivalent combination of education and/or experience, which provide an applicant with the listed knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the essential duties and responsibilities of the job, is acceptable.
This description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, qualifications, or working conditions required of employees in this position. The organization reserves the right to modify or amend the duties of the position or to require that additional tasks be performed as organizational needs change. This description does not constitute a contract of employment, and employment with the organization is at-will, meaning either the employee or the organization may terminate the relationship at any time, with or without cause or notice.