Per Diem Specialist Child Life-Days

Job description

Location New York, New York Shift: Day (United States of America) Description: Per Diem Child Life Specialist At NewYork-Presbyterian Komansky Children’s Hospital of the Children’s Hospital of New York, together with our affiliate Weill Cornell Medicine, we’re committed to improving the health of infants, children, and adolescents through high-quality and comprehensive patient care, medical education, scientific research, and child and family advocacy. Step into a dynamic Child Life Department to work side-by-side with respected leaders in our field. Our Child Life Specialists (CLS) provide support services to pediatric patients based on their expertise in child development and the impact that illness, injury, disability, and hospitalization has on this process. Therapeutic interventions and programming elements are designed to reduce distress, increase adaptive coping as well as protect and enhance developmental integrity. Our child life team specializes in helping children and families cope with medical situations by individualizing care to meet their social, emotional, developmental, and educational needs through assessment and therapeutic intervention. At the Children’s Hospita...