<p>The Activity Coordinator provides opportunities for children to gain a sense of mastery, through play and learning experiences. The Activity Coordinator is responsible for providing therapeutic and diversionary play activities to an assigned group of pediatric patients and/or siblings to promote normalization of the hospital environment, positive adaptation to the hospital and a family centered care focus. Requires excellent communication, group management and organizational skills. The Activity Coordinator will demonstrate a strong commitment to a team approach. Minimum Education</p> <p>Associate's Degree Child development or related field (Required)</p> <p>Minimum Work Experience</p> <p>1 year Job related experience working with children or two years of college education in child development or related field is required. (Required)</p> <p>Required Skills/Knowledge</p> <p>Knowledge of child and adolescent growth and development, high level of interpersonal communication skills, effective oral and written communication skills, ability to work independently and as a team member with proven knowledge of medical terminology. Candidate must have experience working with individuals from diverse backgrounds and cultures.</p> <p>Functional Accountabilities</p> <p>Hospital Environment/Developmental Needs</p> <ul> <li>Introduces patient programming and supportive services to patients, parents, and siblings </li><li>Plans, facilitates and supervises group and spontaneous play opportunities for assigned patient care area(s) </li><li>Encourages socialization and peer interaction between patients and families by organizing and providing a monthly calendar of scheduled activities for play spaces </li><li>Supervise and/or monitor play activities for assigned patient care area(s) </li><li>Maintains play space as a "safe", welcoming and supportive environment by ensuring medical procedures/consults/meetings occur outside of area </li><li>Encourages caregiver involvement in play area activities for normalization and informs patients, families and health care team of available resources </li><li>Provides input to the Child Life Specialist about observed specific needs of individual children; determine when the needs of individual children should be attended to by child life specialists, nursing and/or medical professionals and outside the general scope of the activity coordinator role </li><li>Responsible for ongoing supervision and support to volunteers in playroom, play spaces or bedside </li></ul> <p>Developmentally Appropriate Activities</p> <ul> <li>Delivers toys/activities to patient rooms that support adjustment to hospitalization, encourage play and promote normal growth and development as requested by Child Life Specialist, Nursing or self-referral </li><li>Provides one on one interaction with patients as determined by Child Life Specialist or self-referral </li><li>Provides opportunities for choice and encourages involvement in decision making </li><li>Recognizes and builds on strength of families by acknowledging and utilizing parent's knowledge of patient's abilities, interests and needs </li><li>Identifies patients for volunteer support and provides guidance to volunteers in the selection of age/developmentally appropriate activities </li><li>Engages and collaborates with hospital programs and ancillary services to enhance patient support as appropriate </li></ul> <p>Patient/Family Environment</p> <ul> <li>Organizes play space to be a welcoming environment for patients and families </li><li>Inventories, restocks and maintains play space materials in collaboration with Child Life Specialist </li><li>Cleans toys/games/equipment daily in accordance with hospital toy washing policy </li><li>Completes required documentation of Toy Cleaning Log </li><li>Facilitates contact with EVS, Facilities and Bio-Med to ensure play space and equipment are well maintained </li><li>Adheres to hospital policy regarding visitors and siblings in play space </li><li>Safely assists patients to and from play space and special events </li><li>Reports concerns/safety incidents to Director of the department for follow up and documents safety concerns per department and hospital policy </li></ul> <p>Professional Environment & Standards</p> <ul> <li>Meet with Department Director for regular supervision, preparing agenda and discussing areas of concern </li><li>Respond to requests for services as stated in department standards </li><li>Participate in Child Life meetings as appropriate and in departmental staff meetings </li><li>Meet all departmental requirements for chart recording, statistics, and other professional documentation and submit documents in a timely manner </li><li>Participate in departmental performance improvement activities </li><li>Plan absences in collaboration with Child Life and Integrative Care team members </li><li>Participate in professional development activities </li><li>Participate in planning of community outreach and advocacy events </li></ul> <p>Organizational Accountabilities</p> <p>Organizational Accountabilities (Staff)</p> <p>Organizational Commitment/Identification</p> <ul> <li>Anticipate and responds to customer needs; follows up until needs are met </li></ul> <p>Teamwork/Communication</p> <ul> <li>Demonstrate collaborative and respectful behavior </li><li>Partner with all team members to achieve goals </li><li>Receptive to others' ideas and opinions </li></ul> <p>Performance Improvement/Problem-solving</p> <ul> <li>Contribute to a positive work environment </li><li>Demonstrate flexibility and willingness to change </li><li>Identify opportunities to improve clinical and administrative processes </li><li>Make appropriate decisions, using sound judgment </li></ul> <p>Cost Management/Financial Responsibility</p> <ul> <li>Use resources efficiently </li><li>Search for less costly ways of doing things </li></ul> <p>Safety</p> <ul> <li>Speak up when team members appear to exhibit unsafe behavior or performance </li><li>Continuously validate and verify information needed for decision making or documentation </li><li>Stop in the face of uncertainty and takes time to resolve the situation </li><li>Demonstrate accurate, clear and timely verbal and written communication </li><li>Actively promote safety for patients, families, visitors and co-workers </li><li>Attend carefully to important details - practicing Stop, Think, Act and Review in order to self-check behavior and performance </li></ul>