Specialist - Child Life Services I

3 weeks ago

Doha, Qatar Sidra Medicine Full time

The Specialist - Child Life Services I under the supervision of the Supervisor - Child Life Services, competently provides safe and effective child life support to Women, Children and Families within Sidra Medicine. This position assesses and provides services in response to the identified psychosocial and developmental needs of children and their families. This position provides education and coping support to children and families to reduce the stress and anxiety accompanying hospitalization and other aspects of health care. The Specialist - Child Life Services I will be responsible for supporting training of, and working with Child Life Assistants and volunteers, as well as providing educational experiences for Child Life students. The Specialist - Child Life Services I works in collaboration with other members of the health care team and strives to provide evidence-based care by integrating research with practice; promotes continuous improvement and helps to generate innovative ideas within child life specialty practice; maintains a commitment to life-long learning and creates, utilizes and/or disseminates new knowledge to patients and their families, the public and other internal /external health professionals.

**KEY ROLE ACCOUNTABILITIES**:

- Under the supervision of the Child Life Services Supervisor makes decisions related to the plans of care for women/children.
- Makes day to day decisions regarding assessment and interventions that impact patients and families and collaborating staff/colleagues.
- Makes recommendations to the supervisor regarding decisions that have a unit/service impact.
- Responsible for maintaining up to date mandatory Life Support Training requirements as directed by MoPH and Sidra (e.g. BLS, AED etc).

Essential Function 1

**Assesses, meaningfully interacts with, and provides a safe, therapeutic and healing environment for children and families**:

- Implements Child Life services using evidence-based practice.
- Establishes and maintains therapeutic relationships.
- Uses developmentally appropriate play as a primary tool in assessing and meeting psychosocial needs.
- Utilizes therapeutic play and other creative modalities to meet individual development and emotional needs.

**Therapeutic play refers to specialized activities that are developmentally supportive and facilitate the emotional well-being of a pediatric patient. Therapeutic play typically consists of at least one of the following types of activities: 1) the encouragement of emotional expression (e.g. reenactment of experiences through healthcare play), 2) instructional play to educate children about medical experiences, and 3) physiologically enhancing play (e.g. blowing bubbles to improve breathing).
- Creates an environment where play is valued and encouraged.
- Prepares and maintains a safe, inviting, and developmentally responsive play environment appropriate for patients and families.
- Plans and implements varied developmentally supportive activities.
- Applies formal and informal assessment techniques to assess psychosocial needs, and continue cyclical process of assessment, plan, intervention, and evaluation.
- Assesses patient and family knowledge level, misconceptions, previous experience, and unique social, cultural and learning needs.
- Assesses patient and family responses to stress.
- Supports the central role of the family, valuing strengths and needs; works to maintain family units.
- Utilizes effective communication skills in the process of supporting children and families.
- Provides support to siblings, parents, and other friends and family members in order to improve understanding of the patient’s situation and familiarization with the health care environment.
- Paces interactions in response to a child’s and family’s lead.
- Demonstrates respect for diversity.
- Participates in interdisciplinary care conferences, psychosocial rounds, and nursing report.
- Maintains good interpersonal relations with patients, families, visitors, and other employees, following departmental and hospital-wide philosophy.
- Communicates concisely with others, integrating theory and evidence-based practice to obtain and share pertinent information.
- Provides input about facility design and provisions to promote orientation, comfort, healing, security, and normalization.
- Ensures that the department’s resources, playrooms, and activity areas are maintained appropriately and cleaned per hospital guidelines, adhering to MOPH standards.
- Ensures that infection control procedures are adhered to at all times and provides assistance to the Department in this regard. This would include wiping down table surfaces, toy washing, and acting as liaison with Housekeeping and Infection Control staff.

Essential Function 2

**Provides teaching for and assists with potentially stressful patient and family health care events**:

- Utilizes knowledge of child development (neonate to adolescent) and family-centered care

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