Associate Child Life Specialist

**Req Number** 189166

Job Description

Based on current plan-of-care, engages in routine psychosocial activities with children and their families to provide emotional support and identify opportunities to recommend and implement approved coping strategies. Participates-in developing, implementing and evaluating psychosocial programs fostering emotional, developmental, intellectual and physical growth of children in a hospital environment and outpatient setting. Participates-in orienting other hospital staff of the psychosocial needs of children and their families and fosters positive hospital community relations.

This position also includes becoming a secondary handler for one of our current facility dogs. A secondary handler is responsible for providing goal oriented therapeutic interventions. The handler integrates the dog into the clinical and psychosocial care while ensuring patient safety, infection control compliance and the overall well being of th...