Child Life Specialist
Job Description
- Best in Class Work Environment
- 5x Modern Healthcare Best Places to work
- America’s Greatest Workplaces 2023 – Newsweek
- Greatest Workplace for Women 2023, 2024 – Newsweek
- Greatest Workplaces for Diversity 2024 – Newsweek
- Best Employers for New Grads 2023 – Forbes
- Best Employers by State – Missouri – 2023 – Forbes
- Benefits
- Robust, fully customizable benefits package including Medical/Vision/Dental and more!
- No cost eCare visits
- Employer-provided mental health services for employees and eligible family members
- Retirement with employer match up to 5%
- Tuition discounts and reimbursement available for continuing your education
- Free and convenient parking
- CoxHealth Fitness Center and Child Care discounts
- Cafeteria Discount
- Onsite delivery for CoxHealth Pharmacies and 1906 Employee Store
- Robust, fully customizable benefits package including Medical/Vision/Dental and more!
- Job Summary
- A caregiver who assumes responsibility and accountability for all pediatric patients, during contact with the hospital either as an inpatient or outpatient. Our Specialists provide care for these patients through therapeutic use of self, patient activities, hospital environment adaptation, and education of other health care team members regarding development and children’s reactions to hospital stressors.
- Job Requirements
- Education
- Required: Bachelor’s Degree in Child and Family Development or a related field
- Preferred: Degree emphasis in Child Life with a professional hospital internship
- Experience
- Preferred: Previous pediatric volunteer experience
- Skills
- Performs assessments and goal-directed plans of care to facilitate patient outcomes.
- Evaluates the effectiveness of self and services
- Identifies educational goals for patients, family, staff members, the community, and other hospital departments
- Provides a safe, therapeutic, individualized physical and psychosocial environment for patients and their families
- Licensure/Certification/Registration
- Required: Eligible to set for the Child Life Certification exam, if not a Certified Child Life Specialist (CCLS)
- Preferred: Certified Child Passenger Safety Technician (CPST)
- Education
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Why CoxHealth?
We are a health system that includes six hospitals with over 80 clinics and 537 physicians serving 24 counties. CoxHealth is Missouri’s first hospital system accredited by DNV Healthcare for quality and patient safety. All six hospitals, as well as our outpatient centers and provider-based clinics, hold this national distinction from DNV’s accreditation program, the National Integrated Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. The hospital is also the only facility in the region to receive the ANCC Magnet designation, which recognizes excellence in nursing. We are the only local health system named six times to U.S. News & World Report’s Best Regional Hospitals list, and we are recognized by CareChex as among the Top 10 percent of U.S. hospitals for medical excellence and patient safety in overall medical care.