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🥝 Child Life Assistant

Intermountain Health | Salt Lake City, United States | Posted June 23, 2026

Job Description

**Job Description:**

The Child Life Assistant Interacts directly with pediatric patients, families, and other healthcare team members and facilitates age-appropriate activities to help make the healthcare experience easier for patients and families. Under the direction of a child life specialist, the child life assistant provides activities in a play setting that reduces patient and family distress, increases effective patient and family coping, fosters patient independence, and promotes optimum development. This role is designed as a career path toward other child development roles and most Child Life Assistants are working towards child life certification through the Association of Child Life Professionals while earning a degree and certifications.

**Posting Specifics**

+ **Entry Rate:** Based on experience
+ **Shift Details:** **PRN, Part-time (16 hrs/wk & 26 hrs/wk)** **positions available. May include Weekdays, Weekends and Holidays. (see addit...

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