Child Life Activity Coordinator

In collaboration with Child Life Specialists, Child Life Activity Coordinator provides support to patients in the hospital setting by evaluating and facilitating patient activity and events. These interventions occur at the bedside, during special events, and in the patient activity areas. The goal of the Child Life Activity Coordinator is to provide opportunities for play and to support the overall operational needs of the Child Life department.

This position will support the our 10th floor which is a 19-bed unit that houses all long-term patients either on inpatient rehab or trach/vented patients.

Duties & Responsibilities

POPULATION SPECIFIC CARE

• Neonate - <30 days
  Infancy - >30 days to 1yr
  Toddlers - >1yr to 3yrs
  Pre-Schoolers - >3yrs to 5yrs
  School age - >5yrs to 13yrs
  Adolescent - >13yrs to 18yrs
  Adult - >18yrs to 65yrs

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
An employee in this position may be called upon to do any or all the following essential functions. These examples do not include all the functions which the employee may be expected to perform.

• 1. Provides developmental and recreational play opportunities for patients and families.
  2. Ensures activity rooms are available to patients and families during designated hours.
  3. Maintains required patient care documentation and reporting of play sessions.
  4. Assists Child Life Specialist in planning, conducting, and evaluating activities for patients and families.
  5. Assists with special events and departmental programming, helps with promoting events to patients and families, , assists patients with getting to events, or bedside visits. Helps with set up and clean-up of events.
  6. Provides training, instruction, and guidance to Patient Activity Volunteers
  7. Maintains clean, safe, and developmentally appropriate Child Life areas (activity rooms, etc.).
  8. Supports the supply process thorough ordering, receiving, organizing, and distributing child life supplies (non-medical patient equipment, toys, activities, etc.).
  9. Partners with Association of Volunteers to assist with donations.
  

SCOPE & LEVEL
Guidelines: Trains in the field and assists higher level personnel to acquire learning through practical experience.
Complexity: Performs routine and/or basic tasks common to the field. Procedures, methods, and techniques to be used are well established and options to be considered are well defined. Tools, work aids, and materials to be used are specific.
Decision Making: Duties assigned are primarily routine, repetitive, and restricted in intricacy with little or no discretion in how they are carried out.
Communications: Contacts with team members, clients or the public where explanatory or interpretive information is exchanged, gathered, or presented and some degree of discretion and judgment are required within the parameters of the job function.
Supervision Received: Under close supervision, the team member receives training to develop skills and abilities in a specific line of work or general occupational area. Work product is subject to close, continuous inspection.
Provides developmental and recreational play opportunities for patients and families.

• Ensures activity rooms are available to patients and families during designated hours.
• Maintains required patient care documentation and reporting of play sessions.
• Assists Child Life Specialist in planning, conducting, and evaluating activities for patients and families.
• Assists with special events and departmental programming, helps with promoting events to patients and families, assists patients with getting to events, or bedside visits. Helps with set up and clean-up of events.
• Provides training, instruction, and guidance to Patient Activity Volunteers
• Maintains clean, safe, and developmentally appropriate Child Life areas (activity rooms, etc.).
• Supports the supply process thorough ordering, receiving, organizing, and distributing child life supplies (non-medical patient equipment, toys, activities, etc.).
• Partners with Association of Volunteers to assist with donations.

Minimum Qualifications

• Degrees

  • High School diploma or GED

• Experience
  • Minimum Experience Required:Two years of experience working with children

• Equivalency

  • Two years experience above stated requirements may substitute for associate's degree.

Schedule/Shift

• 40hrs FT
• M-F 9a-530p

Salary Information
Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience.

Hourly Range: $18.44 to $27.67

Benefits Information
Here, you matter. As a Children's Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career.

As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.

Children's Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.

EEO Statement
It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information. The position is expected to stay open until the posted close date. Please submit your application as soon as possible as the posting is subject to close at any time once a sufficient pool of qualified applicants is obtained.

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