Activity Coordinator

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.

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
  
  

Organizational Accountabilities

Organizational Accountabilities (Staff)

Organizational Commitment/Identification

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

Teamwork/Communication

• Demonstrate collaborative and respectful behavior
• Partner with all team members to achieve goals
• Receptive to others’ ideas and opinions
  
  

Performance Improvement/Problem-solving

• Contribute to a positive work environment
• Demonstrate flexibility and willingness to change
• Identify opportunities to improve clinical and administrative processes
• Make appropriate decisions, using sound judgment
  
  

Cost Management/Financial Responsibility

• Use resources efficiently
• Search for less costly ways of doing things
  
  

Safety

• Speak up when team members appear 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, clear and timely verbal and written communication
• Actively promote safety for patients, families, visitors and co-workers
• Attend carefully to important details - practicing Stop, Think, Act and Review in order to self-check behavior and performance
  
  

Primary Location

District of Columbia-Washington

Work Locations

CN Hospital (Main Campus)

Job

Non-Clinical Professional

Organization

Patient Services

Position Status

R (Regular)

Shift

Variable

Work Schedule

10:00-6:30p

Job Posting

Nov 23, 2025, 6:16:35 PM

Full-Time Salary Range

37336