Job description

Child Life Specialist

The Child Life Specialist contributes to excellent patient experience by assessing, educating, preparing and supporting patients and families in the health care system. The child life specialist collaborates with other health care providers, as well as the community, to promote growth and development and facilitate positive adjustment for patients and families throughout the health care experience.

How You Make a Difference

At Cook Children’s, everyone should feel like family. The Child Life Specialist supports the full patient experience by providing focused psychosocial, emotionally safe care to patients, siblings and families. The Cook Children’s Experience Standards of connection, collaboration and elevating experiences are upheld through a culture of respect that values inclusion, diversity and health equity; empathy, listening, engagement, encouragement, communication, and an appreciation of partnership and teamwork.

How We Make a Difference

The Patient, Family Member Experience team’s mission is to give voice to what patients, families and members see, advocate for how experiences effect well-being, provide support and emotional safety, and elevate people, processes and technology. This role is surrounded by colleagues who are deeply passionate in bettering the human experience and consider their work a calling. Our Promise inspires us to perform at our highest level because we understand the impact we have every day on the lives of the children, families and caregivers we serve.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of bachelor’s degree in Child Life, Child Development or a closely related field.
• Completion of child life internship.
• Certified Child Life Specialist, by exam, preferred within one year of hire
• American Heart Association Health Care Provider BLS is required within 60 days of hire

Cook Children's is an EOE/AA, Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran employer.

Child Life Specialist

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off

Medical specialties:

• Pediatrics

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

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