Child Life Specialist - Specialty Support Services - St. Mary
Ochsner Lsu Health System of North Louisiana
Shreveport, Louisiana, US
On-site
Reduce emotional distress and trauma
Optimize development and normalize experience
Enhance healthy independence and foster strengths
Ochsner LSU Health System is seeking a Child Life Specialist to work on-site in Shreveport, Louisiana, focusing on reducing emotional distress in pediatric patients and their families through therapeutic interventions and support. The role requires a Bachelor's degree and at least one year of relevant experience, with a preference for candidates holding a Master's degree
Job Summary
This job assumes responsibility for and 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 health care 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
Match Score: 85
Ochsner LSU Health System is seeking a Child Life Specialist to work on-site in Shreveport, Louisiana, focusing on reducing emotional distress in pediatric patients and their families through therapeutic interventions and support. The role requires a Bachelor's degree and at least one year of relevant experience, with a preference for candidates holding a Master's degree.