Child Job Description
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Child Examples
Child Job Description
- Effectively and efficiently, manage the project finances and assets as per the existing WVU policies and procedures
- Maintains knowledge of Kids Zone and facility policies and procedures
- Collaborates with the unit CLS and/or CL Manager, to plan and implement developmentally appropriate activities and projects for individual and groups of patients
- Communicates patient and family information with the CLS and unit team in order to provide customized experiences to meet the patient's needs
- Maintains accurate statistics for the daily, evening and weekend activity center programming and enters data weekly
- Maintains the Child Life activity areas in an organized, clean and safe manner
- Manages and utilizes technology tools, hospital resources (playground, sensory room, library, ) and applications in providing appropriate activities for patients
- Orients and supervises volunteers and work study students to assure safe, developmentally appropriate and effective patient and family experiences in activity center programs
- Responsible for unit-based communication with patients and families about special programs, activity center and atrium events, guest visitors and family resources
- Assists Lead Teacher maintain a healthy and safe classroom environment (indoors and outdoors)
- Experience in webinar platforms such as Adobe Connect, GotoWebinar, iMeetLive, WebEx or similar platforms
- Three plus years preferred conducting child and family psychotherapy
- Previous experience conducting child psychotherapy group therapy preferred
- Ability to adapt care and treatment to reflect age specific needs, cultural values, personal needs, psychosocial needs, and religious beliefs of the patients
- Demonstrated knowledge of and skill in adaptability, planning, organization, creativity/innovation, interpersonal relations, oral communication, problem solving, written communication
- Documented experience dealing with a wide variety of neurosurgical, neurological, psychiatric and general medical/surgical patients
Child Job Description
- Provides support and distraction during medical procedures and other potentially stressful events
- Initiate child development assessments on children, especially with concerns and work with
- Serve as a child welfare subject matter expert, as part of the software development lifecycle activities
- Create artifacts and formal deliverables relative to project initiatives
- Contribute to project work plans, and other formal project management deliverables relative to project initiatives
- Serve as the liaison between various stakeholder groups and other third-party vendors
- Communicate and/or translate business challenges to IT and assist in developing solutions
- Prepare written reports, presentations, and materials for clients
- Manage assigned daily project functions and client interaction
- Design and implement an emergent curriculum founded on Developmentally Appropriate Practice and NAEYC Accreditation standards
- 2000 hours of formal post-doctoral training program in neuropsychology in medical settings with neurology, neuro-rehabilitation and/or neurosurgical services or an equivalent combination of training, supervision and experience
- Knowledge of social services agencies, state regulations and APA standards as they relate to client treatment, patient rights and client/patient confidentiality, and other ethical issues
- Must be able to utilize proper body mechanics while assisting with transfers of individuals weighing up to 250 pounds
- Coursework in early childhood education or child development or a CDA (a plus!)
- Must be either Director qualified in the state of Colorado or within 12 months from getting Director certification
- Must be Group Leader qualified by the state of Colorado
Child Job Description
- Plan and facilitate developmentally appropriate learning experiences, activities and interactions
- Create and maintain a safe, organized, well supplied and varied learning environment
- Provides quality direct patient care for a group of young children including serving meals, assisting with feeding, diapering, dressing, providing developmentally appropriate behavioral guidance within daily scheduled activities
- Demonstrate professional practices
- Model non-discriminatory practices toward students, faculty, and staff
- Deliver a global inter-agency training to relevant practitioners on Caring for Child Survivors
- Provide real-time remote support to practitioners delivering and coordinating services to child and adolescent survivors of sexual abuse
- Assists the patient, family and health care team in identifying the psychosocial and developmental factors which impact the health care experience for the patient/family
- This position will not have direct reports
- Shares observations of child's emotional behavior or physical condition as appropriate
- Previous management experience in a licensed child care facility required
- Board Eligible / Certified in Psychiatry
- Carrying, Hearing/Listening, Lifting, Pulling/Pushing, Seeing, Sitting, Speaking, Standing, Walking
- Certificate in Early Childhood Development
- Or Associate degree
- Six months experience in an early childhood program
Child Job Description
- Supervises volunteers and assists with students
- Document all section meetings and ensure action points are followed up on in coordination with sections
- Ensure loading monthly documents on the shared drive and updating folders on that same folder
- Compile documents of monthly reports and field visits onto shared drive
- Summarizes information reflecting current obligations and future program and/or budgetary implications
- Processes and examines the information and data in accordance with instructions received, making necessary abstracts and computations
- Coordinate the project strategic and operational planning and budgeting, implementation, in-line with the project document and WVU strategic priorities
- In close consultation with the WVU DME team, work out an appropriate project M&E framework and champion its operationalization
- Consistent with the project reporting requirements/standards, coordinate evidence based, timely and quality reporting for accountability to District Leaders, donors and the community
- Undertake stakeholder mapping and analysis of child protection actors in the project area to inform building of partnerships, networks and collaborations for effective joint mobilization, awareness raising and social accountability
- Experience as a Child Development Teacher
- Master degree in Child Life or related field preferred
- Must be certified under the specifications for Child Life Certification by the Child Life Council, inc
- Obtain American Heart Association BLS provider within 6 months of hire or transfer into position
- Facilitation of interventions to support coping and minimize stress and anxiety
- Working relationships to support a collaborative approach to caring for ill children
Child Job Description
- In-line with WVU Human Resources Manual, contribute to project staff recruitment, development and retention , ensuring value based staff supervision, mentoring and on-job support
- Contribute to resource mobilization for project activities identifying fundable ideas and sharing the concepts with the GAM team
- Play a representational role for UNICEF and WVU project interests at the Local Government levels, in close consultation with WVU technical and management teams
- Continued growth as an early childhood profession through participation in required trainings in early childhood education or related areas
- Observe and assess the needs of infants, children, youth and families using formal and informal techniques
- Introduces coping strategies to help reduce anxiety and enhance cooperation with the health care team
- Offers opportunities for play and expressive activities to encourage normal growth and development
- Promotes family –centered care by providing information, advocacy and support to families of pediatric patients
- Properly and accurately document and chart on child and family interventions
- Participate in interdisciplinary/ departmental team meetings and communicate developmental and psychosocial needs of children
- Ability to supervise and direct the workflow of the department and to integrate Child Life services within the organization
- A Bachelors Degree in Child Development or related field is preferred
- Working towards Child Life certification is preferred
- Completion of Child Life Internship is preferred
- A minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in Child Life/Child Development, Psychology, Art Therapy or related field
- Ability to organize and plan work efficiently within set time limits