Certified Child Life Specialist

Certified Child Life Specialist (CCLS) PRN
Overview
Become a Child Life Specialist with Hands of Hope. Do you value the time you spend with your patients? We are looking for Child Life Specialists to join our team who are committed to creating meaningful patient experiences. As a Child Life Specialist at Georgia Hospice Care, you’ll provide skilled social services to patients in the home on an intermittent basis, coordinated with the physician’s orders, plan of care, and with other team members. You’ll assist families along their health care journeys with love and compassion. Hands of Hope offers access to a supportive leadership team and professional development opportunities with room for advancement.
Essential Functions
Assesses patients to identify the psychosocial, financial and environmental needs of patients as evidenced by documentation, clinical records, case conferences, team report, call-in logs, and on-site evaluation.
Makes the initial Child Life Specialist evaluation visit and reevaluates the patient’s Child Life Specialist needs during each following visit.
Communicates significant findings, problems, and changes in condition or environment to the Supervisor, the physician and/or other personnel involved with patient care.
Reports unsafe conditions and the outcome of each visit to the appropriate Supervisor as appropriate by the end of the day.
Implements the plan for patient safety, using the patient, family, and community resources.
Participates in implementation and development of the Plan of Care to ensure quality and continuity of care and proper discharge planning.
Verifies the Plan of Care prior to each visit and provides care according to physician’s orders, assessment data, and established standards and guidelines.
Initiates and revises the Plan of Care in response to identified patient care issues.
Writes physician orders to cover additional visits and changes to the plan of care, per agency policy.
Incorporates patient care goals established in the plan of care, as evidenced by documentation in clinical note.
Performs appropriate skilled services/interventions in accordance with accepted standards of practice and certified by the patient’s physician.
Counsels and instructs and includes the patient and family in following the Plan of Care and meeting Child Life Specialist and related needs.
Assures the continuity of quality patient care delivered.
Maintains communication with clinical staff providing updates and changes in schedules, patient data or needs, physician orders or special instructions.
Participates in patient care conferences offering clinical suggestions.
Ensures clinical notes indicate continuing communication and coordination of services with physician, other staff and disciplines.
Qualifications
EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree in relevant field and CCLS certification from the Child Life Council.
LICENSURE: Current CCLS certification.
EXPERIENCE: 2 years of Child Life Specialist experience in a healthcare setting.
REQUIRED: Reliable transportation. Ability to sit, stand, bend, move intermittently and lift at least 25 lbs and bear the weight of an average adult effectively.
Benefits
Tuition Reimbursement
Immediate Access to Paid Time Off
Employee Referral Program Bonus Eligibility
Matching 401K
Annual Merit Increases
Years of Service Award Bonuses
Pet Insurance
Financial and Legal Assistance Program
Mental Health and Counseling Programs
Dental and Orthodontic Coverage
Vision Insurance
Health Care with Low Premiums
$500 Matching Health Savings