Child Life Specialist (Social Services Practitioner III - Per Diem)

Social Services Practitioner III - Per Diem, Child Life Specialist

Masters Degree in Child Life REQUIRED!

Child Life Certification Required within 12 months of hire.

The Riverside University Health System Medical Center in Moreno Valley is seeking a Social Services Practitioner III - Per Diem to work as a Child Life Specialist.

The Child Life Specialist position plans, implements, and evaluates the Child Life program within RUHS-MC.

Child Life Specialists provide emotional, social, and educational services to the pediatric patients at RUHS, adult patients with children wanting to visit, crisis response during pediatric traumas, grief support for children, developmentally appropriate diversion activities, as well as medical education to children undergoing surgery.

Child Life Specialists supervise child visits for patients expected to expire and provide additional support to families with grieving children.

Under general direction, performs difficult social service casework dealing with complex individual and family problems or social service casework for patients and their families in healthcare facilities; plans, organizes, implements, and evaluates all clinical services provided to pediatric patients and needs of children in required assignments; may participate in and assist with conducting in-service training programs; may provide leadership as a program consultant in the utilization of casework concepts and methodology; performs other related duties as required.

The Social Services Practitioner Ill - Per Diem is a broad range journey to advanced level classification of the professionally trained social caseworker in the Social Services Practitioner - Per Diem series and reports to an appropriate supervisory or manager level position.

Incumbents are characterized by the responsibility for performing full scope social service casework often requiring difficult diagnosis and intensive treatment services.

Depending on area of assignment, incumbents may be required to have a master's degree from an accredited college or university in social work, social welfare, social or behavioral sciences, or social/ human services.

The Social Services Practitioner Ill - Per Diem is distinguished from the Social Services Supervisor by the latter's responsibility to provide full time supervision of staff performing casework.

The Social Services Practitioner Ill - Per Diem is not a natural progression underfill to the Social Services Supervisor.

Per Diem personnel are distinguished from regular employees in that they receive additional compensation in lieu of County fringe benefits and work assignments are flexibly scheduled or on an as needed basis.

Schedule
Sunday from 8:00 am to 6:30 pm - - Monday and Tuesday from 4:00 pm to 11:00 pm -- Every other Wednesday 4:00 pm to 11:00 pm

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