Child Life Specialists
Support patients and families by providing developmentally appropriate and therapeutic interventions.
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World-Class
Child Life Specialists (CLS) are assigned to every inpatient unit and many outpatient areas, including Fetal Diagnoses and Treatment, Day Surgery, Radiology, Proton Therapy, and two Pediatric and Adolescent Specialty Care Centers.
Supportive
CLS benefit from highly competitive starting salaries, a $4k sign-on bonus, relocation and education assistance, paid volunteer time, robust new employee orientation with a clinical supervisor, and certification exam fee coverage (if obtained after first 90 days).
Career-Focused
CHOP offers unique career opportunities, including professional development hours across the enterprise; annual Associate of Child Life Professionals (ACLP) membership after one year of employment; and clinical group supervision involvement.
About Our Department
Child Life Specialists support an extensive range of programs, including Patient Events, Broadcasting & Media, Patient Technology, Hospital School Program, Art Therapy, Music Therapy, Dance Movement Therapy, Facility Dogs, Robotic STEAM Programming, Donor Relations, and more.
$4K sign-on bonus for Child Life Specialists
170+ Child Life, Education and Creative Arts Therapy employees
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