• Job Description

  Req#: 25003564

  All the benefits and perks you need for you and your family:

  • $3,000 Relocation available for eligible candidates (see terms below)
  • This position starts at a minimum hourly rate of $26!!
  • Benefits from Day One
  • PTO from Day One
  • Debt-free Education (Certifications and Degrees without out-of-pocket tuition expense) * For eligible positions
  • Clinical Ladder career advancement opportunities
  • Retirement plan

  Our promise to you:

  Joining AdventHealth is about being part of something bigger. It’s about belonging to a community that believes in the wholeness of each person, and serves to uplift others in body, mind and spirit. AdventHealth is a place where you can thrive professionally, and grow spiritually, by Extending the Healing Ministry of Christ. Where you will be valued for who you are and the unique experiences you bring to our purpose-minded team. All while understanding that together we are even better.

  Unit Highlights:

  As a valued member of our child life team at AdventHealth, you’ll join a well-established, cohesive group that fosters mutual support and embraces play. Our clinical ladder provides exciting career advancement potential, complemented by ongoing educational support to help you maintain your child life certification.

  · Promote positive coping for patients and families during healthcare experiences by providing support, education, and creative interventions to help children and families navigate healthcare challenges with resilience and emotional regulation.

  · Collaborate with multidisciplinary team and child life peers to foster teamwork and promote exceptional patient care.

  · Apply assessment skills to gain a comprehensive understanding of patient and family coping.

  · Incorporate a variety of interventions to include play, self-expression, and socialization to reduce stress and anxiety for patients and families while providing opportunities to promote mastery and control.

  Why Choose Us?:

  · Supportive Environment: We have a robust child life team that values support, fosters growth opportunities, and encourages teamwork.

  · Impact: Your work directly impacts the lives of children and helps empower them for future healthcare experiences.

  · Professional Development: We invest in your ongoing learning and encourage professional growth through our child life clinical advancement program.

  · Competitive Compensation: Benefit from a competitive salary with ongoing market analysis and comprehensive benefits.

  Schedule: Full Time

  Shift : Weekdays 8:00am-4:30pm and one weekend day every other month. This position supports our Neonatal Intensive Care unit.

  The community you’ll be caring for: Located on a lush tropical campus, our flagship hospital, 1,368-bed AdventHealth Orlando

  • We offer great benefits with immediate Health Insurance coverage
  • Career growth and advancement potential
  • Serves as the major tertiary facility for much of the Southeast, the Caribbean and South America
  • AdventHealth Orlando houses one of the largest Emergency Departments and largest cardiac catheterization labs in the country
  • We are already one of the busiest hospitals in the nation, providing service excellence to more than 32,000 inpatients and 125,000 outpatients each year

  The role you’ll contribute:

  Joining AdventHealth is about being part of something bigger. It's about belonging to a community that believes in the wholeness of each person, and serves to uplift others in body, mind and spirit. AdventHealth is a place where you can thrive professionally, and grow spiritually, by Extending the Healing Ministry of Christ. Where you will be valued for who you are and the unique experiences you bring to our purpose-minded team. All while understanding that together we are even better. At AdventHealth, child life specialists play a crucial role in promoting positive experiences for both children and families throughout their healthcare experience. Child life specialists focus on the psychosocial development of children, provide emotional support, developmentally appropriate information, and play opportunities to increase understanding and coping with medical procedures, diagnoses, pain management and grief. Child life specialists also address the needs of siblings or other children affected by a patient's illness/diagnosis. Child life specialists at AdventHealth utilize play and self[1]expressive activities as primary resources to minimize the stress and anxiety patients and families may face during healthcare experiences. Child life specialists are highly respected and valued by both multidisciplinary team members and administration at AdventHealth. Child life specialists actively participate in outstanding customer service and accepts responsibility in maintaining relationships that are equally respectful to all.

  The value you’ll bring to the team:

  • Meets all requirements for CLS job description.
  • Maintain child life certification by attending professional development webinars, in services, and conferences.
  • May assist in application review and interview process for child life students and serve as a child life mentor.
  • A minimum of 4000 hours as a CCLS is required to mentor child life interns.
    •CCLS required to observe a minimum of one perinatal/NICU/pediatric bereavement and one adult bereavement within
    first six months of CCLS 1 level

  *Terms : 12-month Employment Contract Required for Relocation

  • Relocation Eligibility:
  • Must live 50 miles outside of campus address.
  • Rehires that are less than 12 months from separation date are not eligible.

  The expertise and experiences you’ll need to succeed:

  • Professional child life certification through the Child Life Professional Certification Examination (CCLS)
  • Minimum of Bachelor's degree in Child Life, Education, Recreation Therapy, Child Development or related field

• About the company

  AdventHealth is a Seventh-day Adventist non-profit health care system headquartered in Altamonte Springs, Florida, that operates facilities in 9 states across the United States.

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