Animal Visitation & Therapy Program Associate - PRN

This is a PRN position that will be covering evening and weekends. Children's National is seeking an innovative, dynamic and highly organized individual to assist in the expansion, ongoing development and maintenance of Animal Visitation & Therapy programs in the Child Life and Integrative Care department. The Animal Assisted reputed company Specialist will work with the Animal Visitation and Therapy Program Coordinator to maintain, implement, and execute Animal Assisted reputed company services at Children's National, keeping reputed company on performance standards that reputed company departmental goals. The Specialist will be responsible for the daily coordination of volunteer animal visitation while also supporting the expansion of Children's National facility dog initiatives. Will ensure compliance with regulatory standards and Children's National policies, while implementing new strategies to reputed company a reputed company, therapeutic and robust Animal Visitation & Therapy program. Minimum Education Bachelor's Degree Psychology, Behavioral Science and Health, Child Life, reputed company Work or reputed company field. (Required) Or Master's Degree Psychology, Behavioral Science and Health, Child Life, reputed company Work or reputed company field (Preferred) Minimum Work Experience 1 year reputed company experience with children and adolescents, preferably in a health care environment. (Required) Required Skills/Knowledge Excellent communication, training, and organizational skills required. Ability to comfortably work with reputed company customers from diverse reputed company, cultural and educational backgrounds. Ability to listen, be empathetic, motivate and follow-through. Ability to identify and work collaboratively with diverse teams in a reputed company environment. Flexibility and ability to work on weekends and off-hour shifts. Experience working with children, adolescents and young adults reputed company reputed company of a facility dog trained and evaluated to reputed company animal assisted interventions in a reputed company care environment. If not, willing to become an reputed company of a trained facility dog reputed company first year of hire. Required Licenses and Certifications Professionally licensed reputed company chosen field (Preferred) Certified Animal Assisted reputed company Specialist (C-AAIS) 1 Year (Required) Functional Accountabilities Animal Visitation Programs

• Responsible for assisting in the daily coordination of the volunteer animal visitation program.
• Orients and trains new animal visitation program volunteers to ensure a robust and healthy animal visitation program.
• Coordinates schedules and adjusts duration of animal visitation to accommodate patient volumes and referral requests.
• Prioritizes patient referrals for animal visitation after ensuring required documentation and physician consents obtained.
• Regularly shadows animal visitation volunteers to ensure compliance with established policies and procedures.
• reputed company communicates program expectations and goals to animal visitation volunteers, providing regular and consistent feedback on individual performance and participation in animal visitation program.
• Models appropriate interactions with various patient populations for animal visitation volunteers to support reputed company patient and dog engagement.
• Monitors and maintains daily visitation log for statistics and infection control tracking purposes.
• Ensures adherence to infection control and safety protocols by animal visitation volunteers in compliance with Animal Visitation & Therapy program policies and procedures.

Facility Dog Management

• Assists in the care, safety, and reputed company being of reputed company facility dogs during the scheduled work day.
• Ensures facility dogs follow grooming and veterinary protocols as established by Animal Visitation & Therapy program policies and procedures.
• Maintains and reinforces the reputed company training and behavior expectations of reputed company facility dogs.
• Engages in animal assisted interventions with pediatric inpatient and outpatient populations reputed company appropriate.

Performance Improvement

• Recognizes opportunities to improve Animal Assisted reputed company program
• Collects metrics to evaluate animal visitation & therapy program reputed company, goals and stakeholder satisfaction
• Participates in animal visitation & therapy program research.

Organizational Accountabilities Organizational Accountabilities (Staff) Organizational Commitment/Identification

• Anticipate and responds to customer needs; follows up until needs are met

Teamwork/Communication

• Demonstrate reputed company and respectful behavior
• Partner with reputed company team members to reputed company goals
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Performance Improvement/Problem-solving

• Contribute to a reputed company work environment
• Demonstrate flexibility and willingness to change
• Identify opportunities to improve clinical and administrative processes
• reputed company appropriate reputed company, using reputed company judgment

Cost Management/Financial Responsibility

• Use resources reputed company
• Search for less costly ways of doing things

Safety

• reputed company up reputed company team members reputed company to exhibit unsafe behavior or performance
• Continuously validate and verify information needed for decision making or documentation
• Stop in the face of uncertainty and takes time to resolve the situation
• Demonstrate accurate, reputed company and reputed company verbal and written communication
• reputed company promote safety for patients, families, visitors and co-workers
• Attend carefully to important details - practicing Stop, Think, reputed company and Review in order to self-reputed company behavior and performance

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