Job Summary
The Child Life Specialist plays a crucial role in aiding children and their families to adapt to hospital settings, various medical diagnoses, and treatment processes by utilizing developmentally suitable play techniques and support mechanisms. This position encompasses collaboration with a diverse healthcare team to formulate tailored care plans while offering both emotional and psychosocial assistance to patients and their families.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate adjustment to the hospital experience for children and their families.
- Implement developmentally appropriate play and activities to support emotional well-being.
- Work alongside the multidisciplinary team to design personalized care plans.
- Provide emotional and psychosocial support throughout diagnosis and treatment processes.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Child Life, Child Development, or a related behavioral science.
- Completion of a clinical internship in Child Life.
- Certification as a Child Life Specialist by the ACLP must be attained within one year of employment.
- Basic Life Support certification is required.
Stanford Medicine Children's Health provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
