Job Description
**Job Description:**
The Child Life Program Manager is responsible for providing leadership, program development and coordination of patient and caregiver education and support programs. Acts as a primary liaison between healthcare teams and key community and internal partners. This position requires the knowledge of and ability to research evidence-based practices for child development and health experiences, and to analyze and interpret data to make recommendations about areas of focus for outreach efforts.
**Education Qualifications:**
Key Responsibilities:
+ Promotes the continuous development of children to optimize their responses to medical care, to minimize psychological stress and trauma, and to increase understanding and coping with illness and health care experiences
+ Assesses patients and families with the goal of planning interventions
+ Provides children with opportunities for gaining a sense of mastery, for play, for learning, for sel...
The Child Life Program Manager is responsible for providing leadership, program development and coordination of patient and caregiver education and support programs. Acts as a primary liaison between healthcare teams and key community and internal partners. This position requires the knowledge of and ability to research evidence-based practices for child development and health experiences, and to analyze and interpret data to make recommendations about areas of focus for outreach efforts.
**Education Qualifications:**
Key Responsibilities:
+ Promotes the continuous development of children to optimize their responses to medical care, to minimize psychological stress and trauma, and to increase understanding and coping with illness and health care experiences
+ Assesses patients and families with the goal of planning interventions
+ Provides children with opportunities for gaining a sense of mastery, for play, for learning, for sel...
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- Location Duluth, MN
- Job Type Full-time
- Category other-general
- Posted Date June 06, 2026
- Application Deadline June 11, 2026