Certified Child Life Specialist- $3K Sign on Bonus
Company: Baylor Scott & White Health
Location: Fort Worth
Posted on: June 12, 2021
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Job Description:
JOB SUMMARY Join our unique, non-traditional team of experienced certified
child life specialists, exclusively supporting well-children of
seriously ill adult patients. The Palliative Care Child Life Specialist (PC CLS) possesses a
strong foundational skillset from traditional pediatric child life
practice and utilizes an expansive knowledge of child development,
and childhood trauma and grief education; to support adult patients
with serious medical conditions, loved by children (ages 0-18). The
PC CLS initiates developmentally-appropriate therapeutic
interventions designed to assess and enhance children's coping,
promote understanding, address concerns, and prepare them for
upcoming situations with their loved one. Provides education for
adults and children via: disclosure and explanation of medical
conditions, preparation for a death and/or bereavement support
following a death, typical behavioral and emotional responses to
stress and trauma, red flag behaviors, and childhood grief. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS INCLUDE: Serving on adult Supportive & Palliative Care team, attending
daily and/or weekly team meetings, as well as palliative care
training. Assessing psychosocial needs of children and families, prior to
implementing therapeutic interventions. Understanding and providing developmentally-appropriate
explanations to children and involved adults including: diagnosis
teaching, anticipatory grief, death, and grief after loss. Implementing developmentally and situationally-appropriate
bibliotherapy and therapeutic interventions to promote
understanding, teach coping strategies, provide normalcy, and
promoting expression of feelings. Initiates legacy and memory-making activities; and advocates for
children to have a choice to visit and/or say goodbye to their
loved one. Provides education for involved adults in regard to their
children's: healthy coping, common concerns, typical behavioral
changes, and resources for additional community and professional
support. Actively participates in development of best practices,
procedures and processes with the Palliative Care Child Life
team. KEY SUCCESS FACTORS Demonstrates communication skills including;
developmentally-appropriate verbiage, facial expressions, active
listening, emotional regulation, empathy, social awareness,
relationship management, self-awareness, affective matching and
presentation skills. Possesses effective time-management and prioritization skills
for all child life tasks and responsibilities, often while working
independently or with minimal supervision. Displays cultural competence with patients, families and medical
staff with diverse spiritual, ethnic, language, educational and
socio-economic differences. Advocates for psychosocial well-being of children by: promoting
open and honest communication, educating medical staff about the
need for and importance of allowing children to make bedside visits
on all units, providing opportunities for children to say goodbye,
and inclusion during memorializing their loved one. Manages the intense emotional stress inherent when working with
children and families experiencing serious illness or injury,
end-of-life, death and bereavement. BENEFITS Our competitive benefits package includes the following Note: Benefits may vary based upon position type and/or
level QUALIFICATIONS Cert Child Life Specialist (CCLS) BLS CPR within 30 days or hire
Keywords: Baylor Scott & White Health, Fort Worth , Certified Child Life Specialist- $3K Sign on Bonus, Other , Fort Worth, Texas
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