Career Center

General Description:

The Child Life fellowship is a one-year grant funded position to support the child life team with clinical needs, and allows new graduates to gain a year of paid experience before an entry-level role in the field.   Assists the Child Life Department in researching and designing activities that promote the social, emotional, intellectual and physical growth of children.

Essential Responsibilities:

Responsibilities listed in this section are core to the position.  Inability to perform these responsibilities with or without an accommodation may result in disqualification from the position. 

• Provides normalizing playroom and bedside activities, procedural preparations and support, sibling support, bereavement support and teaching positive coping techniques.
• Utilizes health care play, developmentally appropriate activities, as well as works with volunteer workers and educational materials to assist children and families in adjusting to the hospital environment.
• Coordinates internal (in-services, grand rounds, etc) and external (appropriate community agencies, Child Life Conference, etc) professional development and training opportunities.
• Assesses patient's psychosocial/developmental needs and provide therapeutic interventions
• Provides developmentally appropriate activities
• Promotes play as a healing and therapeutic modality for patients and families
• Provides clinical child life services hospital wide on Saturdays

General Responsibilities:

• Performs other duties as assigned