Child Life Specialist
- Location
- Dayton, OH
- Listed
- 4 days ago
Current Employees
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About the role
Shriners Children's Ohio has an opportunity for a Child Life Specialist. Join a team of professionals committed to improving children's lives. Our top healthcare professionals excel in their practices and provide compassionate, family-centered care to children who need it most.
Key Responsibilities
- Provides evaluation and therapeutic services, direct patient care and patient/family education, in an efficient manner. Services may include therapeutic play, preparation, procedural support, special events, and reintegration programming. The child life specialist utilizes these practices in an effort to facilitate adaptive coping techniques and promote normal growth and development of the patient and family.
- Performs an individualized assessment to collect comprehensive and accurate data necessary to assess development, temperament, coping style, medical plan, cultural preferences and practices and available social supports in order to develop an individualized development plan.
- Plans and implements an individualized treatment plan that identifies goals and evidence based treatment intervention strategies
- Participates in interdisciplinary patient care planning
- Utilizes the EMR to document relevant patient and family information
- Plans, implements or assists with camps/workshops/special events.
- Functions as a team member and develops leadership through activities such as mentoring and providing education to students and other professionals.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Child Life, Child Development or related field
- Certified Child Life Specialist, or be eligible to sit for the certification exam and obtain within 6 months of employment
- CPR/BLS per facility policyValid Drivers License per facility policy
Preferred Qualifications
- Masters degree in Child Life, Child Development or related field
- One year's experience in a hospital child life program
Compensation is determined based on years of relevant experience and departmental equity.
Company Overview
Shriners Children's is an organization that respects, supports, and values each other. Named as the 2025 best mid-sized employer by Forbes, we are engaged in providing excellence in patient care, embracing multi-disciplinary education, and research with global impact. We foster a learning environment that values evidenced based practice, experience, innovation, and critical thinking. Our compassion, integrity, accountability, and resilience define us as leaders in pediatric specialty care for our children and their families.
With 20+ hospitals, outpatient clinics, ambulatory care centers and outreach locations across the globe, we provide excellent care to children up to age 18 regardless of their family's ability to pay or insurance status. Please click here to learn more about our locations.
From Shriners Childrens's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on November 6, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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