Full-time

Child Life Specialist

Posted by Alberta Health Services • June 09, 2026

📍 edmonton, division no. 11, Canada
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Description

Seeking a compassionate and skilled Certified Child Life Specialist to join an interdisciplinary health‑care team dedicated to supporting children, adolescents, and families through the health‑care experience. This role offers a meaningful opportunity to make a lasting impact by promoting coping, resilience, and development during hospitalization. As a Certified Child Life Specialist, you will plan, develop, implement, coordinate, and evaluate therapeutic play and normalization activities that support the social, emotional, intellectual, and physical development of children and adolescents. Your practice will be grounded in family‑centered care and evidence‑informed child life interventions. You will assess patient and family needs and research, plan, implement, and evaluate developmentally appropriate play and therapeutic interventions in both individual and group settings. These interventions are designed to reduce stress, support coping with illness and hospitalization, and pr...

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