Certified Child Life Specialist Neonatal Intensive Care UnitOrlando, FL

Certified Child Life Specialist

At AdventHealth Orlando, what started as a converted farmhouse in rural Central Florida has become Central Florida's major tertiary health care facility. Patients come from the Southeast, the Caribbean and even as far as South America for our proven expertise and compassionate health care.

With a variety of Orlando hospital jobs, we invite you to start or elevate your career with a new job at AdventHealth Orlando. We constantly seek out Orlando nurses, medical assistants, nurse assistants, patient care and health administration professionals who share our passion for whole-person health care.

Every day, our fellow team members show up to work, unified by one shared mission: Extending the Healing Ministry of Jesus Christ. As a faith-based health care organization, our story is one of hope as we strive to heal and restore the body, mind and spirit. Though our facilities are spread across the country, this unwavering belief binds us together. Across every office, exam and patient room, we're committed to providing individualized, holistic care. This is our Christian mission, and it inspires us to help make communities healthier and happier.

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 for eligible positions
• Clinical Ladder career advancement opportunities
• Retirement plan

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:

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-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 accept 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.

Qualifications:

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

This facility is an equal opportunity employer and complies with federal, state and local anti-discrimination laws, regulations and ordinances.

Category: Pediatrics

Organization: AdventHealth Orlando

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: 1 - Day

Req ID: 25003564

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not tolerate discrimination based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, age or disability/handicap with respect to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion, wages, benefits and other terms and conditions of employment.