Texas Children's Hospital
Child Life Activity Coordinator - Cancer & Hematology Center
6701 Fannin St, Houston, TX 77030
Full-time
First seen by offpeak October 23, 2026
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At our company, our mission starts with our people. Guided by our HEART values of Humility, Excellence, Accountability, Respect, and Trust, we strive to create a workplace where teammates feel valued, supported, and empowered to do their best work every day. As Child Life Activity Coordinator - Cancer & Hematology Center, you’ll provide a comprehensive play program that supports normal growth and development, socialization, and healing through play. You’ll create safe, engaging, and developmentally appropriate experiences that help patients and families feel supported throughout their care journey.
- Prioritizes patient play and activity needs through daily reports, verbal consultations, and collaboration with the interdisciplinary team
- Develops and facilitates developmentally appropriate play-based programs, activities, and special events for patients of all ages
- Creates welcoming, safe, and supportive activity areas that encourage self-expression, family involvement, and peer interaction
- Plans weekly and monthly calendars of developmentally appropriate activities and special events
- Provides bedside toys and activities based on patient needs and interdisciplinary team referrals
- Responds to activity consults and self-referrals within established time frames
- Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team to identify individualized patient care goals that can be supported through normalizing play
- Assesses school-services eligibility, educates families, and initiates services for eligible patients
- Maintains activity-room inventory, monitors purchases, manages supplies, and supports budget adherence
- Ensures activity areas, toys, and games are clean, organized, safe, and compliant with infection-control and visitor policies
- Safely assists patients to and from activity rooms and special events and communicates identified safety concerns to leadership
- Trains, guides, and supervises volunteers to support safe, engaging, and effective patient activities
- Collaborates with Volunteer Services to support volunteer satisfaction, retention, and participation
- Participates in staff meetings, departmental initiatives, performance-improvement activities, and professional-development opportunities
- Builds positive working relationships with patients, families, volunteers, and interdisciplinary team members
- Promotes department and organization-wide activities and responds to correspondence in a timely, professional manner
- Coordinates the volunteer dog program, when assigned, including volunteer support, safety and infection-control compliance, staff education, and program operations
- Bachelor’s degree required
- One year of experience working with children in a hospital or non-hospital environment preferred