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Activity Coordinator

Children's National Medical Center
United States, D.C., Washington
Aug 03, 2025
Description

The Activity Coordinator provides opportunities for children to gain a sense of mastery, through play and learning experiences. The Activity Coordinator is responsible for providing therapeutic and diversionary play activities to an assigned group of pediatric patients and/or siblings to promote normalization of the hospital environment, positive adaptation to the hospital and a family centered care focus. Requires excellent communication, group management and organizational skills. The Activity Coordinator will demonstrate a strong commitment to a team approach.

Arabic and/or Spanish speaking preferred.

Qualifications

Minimum Education
Associate's degree child development or related field (Required)

Minimum Work Experience
1 year job related experience working with children or two years of college education in child development or related field is required. (Required)

Required Skills/Knowledge
Knowledge of child and adolescent growth and development, high level of interpersonal communication skills, effective oral and written communication skills, ability to work independently and as a team member with proven knowledge of medical terminology. Candidate must have experience working with individuals from diverse backgrounds and cultures.

Functional Accountabilities
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

Primary Location : District of Columbia-Washington
Work Locations :
CN Hospital (Main Campus)
111 Michigan Avenue NW
Washington 20010
Job : Non-Clinical Professional
Organization : Patient Services
Position Status : R (Regular) - FT - Full-Time
Shift : Variable
Work Schedule : 10:00am-6:30pm
Job Posting : Aug 1, 2025, 6:58:52 PM
Full-Time Salary Range : 37336 - 58468.8
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