Child Life Specialist - Ochsner Children's Hospital - Jeff Hwy - Ft

Ochsner Health

Jefferson Highway, Louisiana, USA
Fully remote
Reduce emotional distress
Optimize development
Normalize hospital experience
This job interacts directly with patients and family members, as a member of the multidisciplinary health care team, to reduce emotional distress and trauma associated with illness, injury and health care, and to increase effective coping

Job Summary

  • This job interacts directly with patients and family members, as a member of the multidisciplinary health care team, to reduce emotional distress and trauma associated with illness, injury and health care, and to increase effective coping.
  • Works to optimize development, normalize the hospital experience, promote the expression of feelings, enhance healthy independence, foster family strengths, and psychologically prepare patients and family members for stressful encounters throughout their healthcare experiences.
  • Provides assessments, interventions, and therapeutic techniques from infancy to adolescents and acts as integral part of patient care team, advocating for patient and family needs.

Matching Summary

This job interacts directly with patients and family members, as a member of the multidisciplinary health care team, to reduce emotional distress and trauma associated with illness, injury and health care, and to increase effective coping.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • reduce emotional distress
  • optimize development
  • normalize hospital experience
  • promote expression of feelings
  • enhance healthy independence
  • psychologically prepare patients

Nice-to-have

  • family centered care initiatives
  • adapt behavior to patient population
  • professional development
  • maintain clinical knowledge

Key Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree
  • 1 year of experience
  • Basic Life Support (BLS) certification

Work Rights

Not specified

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