Overview Your Opportunity: The Alberta Children's Hospital (ACH) is a warm & vibrant workplace, with team members providing service to children & their families in inpatient units & ambulatory clinics. The Child Life Specialist, as part of the ACH site wide Child Life Service, ensures their clinical practice is patient/family centered, maximizes the child’s physical and emotional health through activities and interventions that are evidence based, research informed and aligned with program and clinic services. The Child Life Specialist is responsible for assessment and interventions which support children and their families with coping and adjustment in the hospital setting across emergency, inpatient, and outpatient services. This individual will have the skills required to utilize knowledge of infant/child/adolescent development, the impact of hospitalization on children, pain management and coping techniques, and the principles of family centered care in interacting and intervening with pediatric patients. The Child Life Specialist works as part of an interdisciplinary team providing therapeutic interventions in response to referrals and within the context of regular program offerings. This position will provide care within the inpatient units and sitewide Child Life Services. Responsibilities Plan, develop, implement, coordinate and evaluate developmental and normalization activities including therapeutic play programs to foster the social, emotional, intellectual and physical growth of children and adolescents. Assess, research, plan, implement and evaluate appropriate play and developmental activities/interventions for children and families (individual and group settings). Provide therapeutic play programs designed to reduce stress, help clients cope with hospitalization, promote development and independence. Prepare children for diagnostic, medical and surgical procedures through hospital play,



demonstrations and discussions; introduce coping strategies to support children and families during procedures. Provide diversion experiences and facilitate special events. Qualifications Required: Completion of bachelor’s degree in Child Life, Education, Psychology or related field. Additional Required Qualifications: ACLP (Association of Child Life Professionals) Child Life certification required. Minimum 1-3 years of experience working as a Child Life Specialist in a pediatric acute health care setting. Clinical experience in emergency department and PICU required. Demonstrated skills in non-pharmacological pain management techniques used to assist children and youth. Demonstrated experience with procedural preparation and supporting children/youth through painful procedures. Demonstrated experience prioritizing referrals from multiple program areas/units. Experience planning and facilitating therapeutic group programs for children and youth. Volunteer training and supervision experience. Demonstrated ability to teach and deliver education material to families in an engaging and meaningful way. Demonstrated ability to function independently and within a multidisciplinary team setting. Demonstrated understanding of a Family Centered Care service delivery model. Clinical experience and education working with trauma, grief and loss. Preferred Qualifications: Medical Hypnosis training, demonstrating ability to apply techniques of medical hypnosis with children/youth in a variety of clinical settings within the hospital. Motivational Interviewing training. Additional Details Classification: Child Life Specialist Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH Unit and Program: Child Life, Allied Health Primary Location: Alberta Children 's Hospital Location Details: As Per Location Multi-Site: Not Applicable FTE: 0.60 Posting End Date: 30-JAN-2026 Employee Class: Regular Part Time Date Available: 02-MAR-2026 Hours per Shift: 7.75 Length of Shift in weeks: 2 Shifts per cycle: 6 Shift Pattern: Days, Evenings, Weekends Days Off: As Per Rotation Minimum Salary: $39.62 Maximum Salary: $52.76 Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable #J-18808-Ljbffr

📌 Child Life Specialist - C$39.6 - C$52.8 An Hour - Part Time (Calgary)
🏢 Alberta Children's Hospital
📍 Calgary