Activity Coordinator- PRN (As Needed)- DC - Child Life and Integrated Care
Washington, District of Columbia
Employer: Children's National Hospital
Industry: Non-Clinical Professional
Salary: Competitive
Job type: Full-Time
The Activity Coordinator provides opportunities for children to gain a sense of mastery, through play and learning experiences. The Activity Coordinator is responsible for providing therapeutic and diversionary play activities to an assigned group of pediatric patients and/or siblings to promote normalization of the hospital environment, positive adaptation to the hospital and a family centered care focus. Requires excellent communication, group management and organizational skills. The Activity Coordinator will demonstrate a strong commitment to a team approach.
Qualifications:
Minimum Education
Associate's Degree Child development or related field (Required)
Minimum Work Experience
1 year Job related experience working with children or two years of college education in child development or related field is required. (Required)
Required Skills/Knowledge
Knowledge of child and adolescent growth and development, high level of interpersonal communication skills, effective oral and written communication skills, ability to work independently and as a team member with proven knowledge of medical terminology. Candidate must have experience working with individuals from diverse backgrounds and cultures.
Functional Accountabilities
Hospital Environment/Developmental Needs
Organizational Accountabilities (Staff)
Organizational Commitment/Identification
Qualifications:
Minimum Education
Associate's Degree Child development or related field (Required)
Minimum Work Experience
1 year Job related experience working with children or two years of college education in child development or related field is required. (Required)
Required Skills/Knowledge
Knowledge of child and adolescent growth and development, high level of interpersonal communication skills, effective oral and written communication skills, ability to work independently and as a team member with proven knowledge of medical terminology. Candidate must have experience working with individuals from diverse backgrounds and cultures.
Functional Accountabilities
Hospital Environment/Developmental Needs
- Introduces patient programming and supportive services to patients, parents, and siblings
- Plans, facilitates and supervises group and spontaneous play opportunities for assigned patient care area(s)
- Encourages socialization and peer interaction between patients and families by organizing and providing a monthly calendar of scheduled activities for play spaces
- Supervise and/or monitor play activities for assigned patient care area(s)
- Maintains play space as a "safe", welcoming and supportive environment by ensuring medical procedures/consults/meetings occur outside of area
- Encourages caregiver involvement in play area activities for normalization and informs patients, families and health care team of available resources
- Provides input to the Child Life Specialist about observed specific needs of individual children; determine when the needs of individual children should be attended to by child life specialists, nursing and/or medical professionals and outside the general scope of the activity coordinator role
- Responsible for ongoing supervision and support to volunteers in playroom, play spaces or bedside
- Delivers toys/activities to patient rooms that support adjustment to hospitalization, encourage play and promote normal growth and development as requested by Child Life Specialist, Nursing or self-referral
- Provides one on one interaction with patients as determined by Child Life Specialist or self-referral
- Provides opportunities for choice and encourages involvement in decision making
- Recognizes and builds on strength of families by acknowledging and utilizing parent's knowledge of patient's abilities, interests and needs
- Identifies patients for volunteer support and provides guidance to volunteers in the selection of age/developmentally appropriate activities
- Engages and collaborates with hospital programs and ancillary services to enhance patient support as appropriate
- Organizes play space to be a welcoming environment for patients and families
- Inventories, restocks and maintains play space materials in collaboration with Child Life Specialist
- Cleans toys/games/equipment daily in accordance with hospital toy washing policy
- Completes required documentation of Toy Cleaning Log
- Facilitates contact with EVS, Facilities and Bio-Med to ensure play space and equipment are well maintained
- Adheres to hospital policy regarding visitors and siblings in play space
- Safely assists patients to and from play space and special events
- Reports concerns/safety incidents to Director of the department for follow up and documents safety concerns per department and hospital policy
- Meet with Department Director for regular supervision, preparing agenda and discussing areas of concern
- Respond to requests for services as stated in department standards
- Participate in Child Life meetings as appropriate and in departmental staff meetings
- Meet all departmental requirements for chart recording, statistics, and other professional documentation and submit documents in a timely manner
- Participate in departmental performance improvement activities
- Plan absences in collaboration with Child Life and Integrative Care team members
- Participate in professional development activities
- Participate in planning of community outreach and advocacy events
Organizational Accountabilities (Staff)
Organizational Commitment/Identification
- Anticipate and responds to customer needs; follows up until needs are met
- Demonstrate collaborative and respectful behavior
- Partner with all team members to achieve goals
- Receptive to others' ideas and opinions
- Contribute to a positive work environment
- Demonstrate flexibility and willingness to change
- Identify opportunities to improve clinical and administrative processes
- Make appropriate decisions, using sound judgment
- Use resources efficiently
- Search for less costly ways of doing things
- Speak up when team members appear to exhibit unsafe behavior or performance
- Continuously validate and verify information needed for decision making or documentation
- Stop in the face of uncertainty and takes time to resolve the situation
- Demonstrate accurate, clear and timely verbal and written communication
- Actively promote safety for patients, families, visitors and co-workers
- Attend carefully to important details - practicing Stop, Think, Act and Review in order to self-check behavior and performance
Created: 2024-08-22
Reference: 2400023H
Country: United States
State: District of Columbia
City: Washington
ZIP: 20010
Similar jobs:
-
Patient Experience Coordinator (PRN)
Medstar in Washington, District of Columbia💸 $48235.20 per year -
Nurse Clinical Program Coordinator - PRN (as needed) - Department of Urology, DC.
Children's National Hospital in Washington, District of Columbia -
Senior Patient Access Operations Coordinator (PRN | As Needed)
Children's National Hospital in Washington, District of Columbia -
Clinical Program Coordinator, RN (PRN) - Sickle Cell Program
Children's National Hospital in Washington, District of Columbia -
Patient Experience Coordinator (PRN)
Medstar in Washington, District of Columbia💸 $48235.20 per year -
Patient Family Library & Resource Coordinator - PRN (As Needed) - DC
Children's National Hospital in Washington, District of Columbia