Activity Coordinator

Hospital Environment/Developmental Needs

• Introduces patient programming and supportive services to patients, parents, and siblings
• Plans, facilitates and supervises group and spontaneous play opportunities for assigned patient care area(s)
• Encourages socialization and peer interaction between patients and families by organizing and providing a monthly calendar of scheduled activities for play spaces
• Supervise and/or monitor play activities for assigned patient care area(s)
• Maintains play space as a safe, welcoming and supportive environment by ensuring medical procedures/consults/meetings occur outside of area
• Encourages caregiver involvement in play area activities for normalization and informs patients, families and health care team of available resources
• 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
• Responsible for ongoing supervision and support to volunteers in playroom, play spaces or bedside

Developmentally Appropriate Activities

• 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
• Provides one on one interaction with patients as determined by Child Life Specialist or self-referral
• Provides opportunities for choice and encourages involvement in decision making
• Recognizes and builds on strength of families by acknowledging and utilizing parent’s knowledge of patient’s abilities, interests and needs
• Identifies patients for volunteer support and provides guidance to volunteers in the selection of age/developmentally appropriate activities
• Engages and collaborates with hospital programs and ancillary services to enhance patient support as appropriate

Patient/Family Environment

• Organizes play space to be a welcoming environment for patients and families
• Inventories, restocks and maintains play space materials in collaboration with Child Life Specialist
• Cleans toys/games/equipment daily in accordance with hospital toy washing policy
• Completes required documentation of Toy Cleaning Log
• Facilitates contact with EVS, Facilities and Bio-Med to ensure play space and equipment are well maintained
• Adheres to hospital policy regarding visitors and siblings in play space
• Safely assists patients to and from play space and special events
• Reports concerns/safety incidents to Director of the department for follow up and documents safety concerns per department and hospital policy

Professional Environment & Standards

• Meet with Department Director for regular supervision, preparing agenda and discussing areas of concern
• Respond to requests for services as stated in department standards
• Participate in Child Life meetings as appropriate and in departmental staff meetings
• Meet all departmental requirements for chart recording, statistics, and other professional documentation and submit documents in a timely manner
• Participate in departmental performance improvement activities
• Plan absences in collaboration with Child Life and Integrative Care team members
• Participate in professional development activities
• Participate in planning of community outreach and advocacy events