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Company | UVA Health |
Address | Charlottesville, VA, United States |
Employment type | FULL_TIME |
Salary | |
Category | Hospitals and Health Care |
Expires | 2023-05-09 |
Posted at | 1 year ago |
This is your opportunity to be a part of the #1 Hospital in Virginia. Functioning as a member of the Child Life Team, a child life specialist collaborates with the interdisciplinary team to meet the psychosocial needs of pediatric patients and their families. The Child Life Specialists is responsible for assessing, educating, preparing and supporting patients during their healthcare experience. The goal of a Child Life Specialists is to increase coping and decrease stress, anxiety and trauma associated with hospitalization. Hours would generally be Monday-Friday, 8AM-4PM, with occasional weekends.
- Functions as an effective team member working with administration team members and volunteers to ensure that appropriate parties are kept informed and those individual and collaborative assignments/responsibilities are met.
- Assist patients with chronic illnesses and their families in coping with diagnosis treatment hospitalization and loss.
- Meets training requirements on an annual basis.
- Prepare children and families for medical procedures.
- Maintains records.
- Recognize and address the importance of therapeutic play in facilitating children’s mastery of and coping with health care experiences.
- Appropriately observe and assess patient and family learning style diagnostic understanding and needs.
- Facilitate supervised medical play opportunities for patients and their siblings to support coping skills.
- In addition to the above job responsibilities, other duties may be assigned.
- Treats children parents and team members with dignity and respect.
- Establishes relationships with team members and families that reflect the key elements of family-centered care.
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