Child Life Specialist - Pediatric ICU
Hamilton Health Sciences
Location
Hamilton, Ontario
Quick overview
The Child Life Specialist helps children and families adapt to hospitalization through preparation, education, and therapeutic play. They work to minimize psychological trauma and maximize development and adjustment in a high-stress healthcare environment.
Requirements summary
Candidates must have a postgraduate diploma in Child Life Studies and obtain certification upon hire or within one year. A minimum of 1 to 2 years of experience in an acute, tertiary care setting is required.
Job description
As a member of the healthcare team, the Child Life Specialist enables children, adolescents and their families to maintain optimum development, realize normal living patterns, minimize psychological trauma and maximize adjustment as they adapt to changes in health, hospitalization and life situations. Through preparation, education, therapeutic play, and other intervention strategies, the pediatric population is provided with the opportunities for gaining a sense of mastery for play, for learning, for self-expression, for family involvement and for peer interaction. Provide support as needed/assigned to other areas at MCH.
- 1.Postgraduate diploma in Child life Studies, preference given to graduates of the McMaster Child Life Studies program.
- 2.Child Life Certification upon hire, or within a year.
- 3.
- Minimum of 1 to 2 years experience, preference given to those with experience in the last 4 years, as a Child Life Specialist in an acute, tertiary care setting 4.Knowledge, skills and abilities required to interact with infants, children, adolescents and their families in a high stress environment.
- 5.Excellent communication skills and the ability to work within an interdisciplinary team.
- 6.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, changing environment
