$5,000 SIGN ON BONUS

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Child Life Specialist—Children of Adult Patients

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This CCLS position covers 2 Baylor Scott & White campuses, splitting time in Grapevine and Irving, Texas. 

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Shift: M-F, 8:00-4:30pm with no weekends, evenings, or holidays required.

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Job Summary

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As a Palliative Care Child Life Specialist, you will utilize your child life knowledge, skills and experience providing exceptional psychosocial support to children (ages 0-18 years) loved by seriously and/or terminally ill or injured adult patients. You will provide education and guidance to adults as they navigate their own difficult medical journey, with their children. You’ll engage children in age-appropriate discussions and therapeutic interventions to address their concerns, and to help them cope, and understand, their loved one’s condition. You'll support children experiencing loss and help families understand how children grieve. You’ll receive extensive training as we prepare you to support children experiencing significant life changes resulting from trauma, serious illness or injury, and the death of a loved one.

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What You'll Do

\n\nYou’ll partner with adult patients and families to provide support for the children they love.\nYou’ll assess the psychosocial needs of children and facilitate developmentally-appropriate therapeutic interventions to support their unique coping and understanding.\nYou’ll explain serious illness or injury, as well as dying and death to children, and assess their grief and coping throughout the medical journey, death, and into early bereavement.\nYou’ll be alert for signs of neglect or abuse of children you support, and report instances promptly.\nYou’ll provide families with educational resources and recommend community organizations for long-term support including professional counseling, if needed.\nYou’ll help educate the medical staff about Palliative Care Child Life Services and work alongside them to ensure excellent family-centered care.\nYou’ll help develop best practices, and processes to enhance our Palliative Care Child Life team and the services we provide across the Baylor Scott & White healthcare system.\n\n

What Will Make You Successful in The Role

\n\nYou have an extensive understanding of child development, child life theory, evidence-based practice, trauma, grief, and developmentally-appropriate therapeutic practices for children.\nYou have strong communication skills including active listening, child-friendly language, empathy, emotional intelligence, and social awareness.\nYou demonstrate cultural awareness while interacting with patients, families, and medical staff from varied spiritual, ethnic, linguistic, educational, and socio-economic backgrounds.\nYou are comfortable educating adults, including medical staff, about children’s unique responses to serious medical conditions, visiting their hospitalized loved one, death, and grief.\nYou effectively manage your own emotions as you support children and families experiencing highly stressful circumstances.\nYou thoroughly document interactions with patients and families using professional language, punctuation, spelling, and tone.\n\n

Belonging Statement

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We believe everyone should feel welcomed, valued, and supported. Our workforce should reflect our communities.

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BENEFITS

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Our competitive benefits package includes the following

\n\nImmediate eligibility for health and welfare benefits\n401(k) savings plan with dollar-for-dollar match up to 5%\nTuition Reimbursement\nPTO accrual beginning Day 1\n\n

Note: Benefits may vary based upon position type and/or level

QUALIFICATIONS

\n\n\n\tEDUCATION - Bachelor's\n\tEXPERIENCE - 3 Years of Experience\n\n\n

\nCERTIFICATION/LICENSE/REGISTRATION 

\n\n\n\tCert Child Life Specialist (CCLS)\n\t Basic Life Support (BLS): BLS within 30 days or hire or transfer.
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