Child Life Specialist

Company Overview

Shriners Children’s is an organization that respects, supports, and values each other. Named as the 2025 best mid-sized employer by Forbes, we are engaged in providing excellence in patient care, embracing multi-disciplinary education, and research with global impact. We foster a learning environment that values evidenced based practice, experience, innovation, and critical thinking. Our compassion, integrity, accountability, and resilience define us as leaders in pediatric specialty care for our children and their families.

With 20+ hospitals, outpatient clinics, ambulatory care centers and outreach locations across the globe, we provide excellent care to children up to age 18 regardless of their family’s ability to pay or insurance status. Please click here to learn more about our locations.

Job Description

The Child Life Specialist Provides evaluation, therapeutic play, preparation, procedural support, special events and reintegration programming.  The Child Life Specialist is responsible to work with children, from infancy through adolescence, in a family centered care environment. This position provides services in an outpatient setting. The Specialist utilizes these practices in an effort to facilitate coping techniques and promote normal growth and development of the patient and family.

Key Responsibilities:

• Performs individualized assessments of patient's development, temperament, coping style, medical plan, cultural preferences and practices and available social supports in order to develop an individualized development plan.

• Plans and implements an individualized treatment plan that identifies goals and evidence based treatment intervention strategies

• Participates in interdisciplinary patient care planning

• Utilizes the EMR to document relevant patient and family information

• Plans, implements or assists with workshops/special events.  

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Child Life, Child Development or related field

• Certified Child Life Specialist, or be eligible to sit for the certification exam

Preferrred Qualifications:

• Masters degree in Child Life, Child Development or related field 

• One year’s experience in a  child life program

Compensation is determined based on years of relevant experience and departmental equity.