The Child Life Specialist serves as a subject matter expert and consultant to clinicians, nursing, medical assistants, and operational leaders by providing hands-on demonstrations, coaching, and guidance related to developmentally appropriate communication, procedural preparation, coping strategies, positioning, distraction techniques, and behavior-reward approaches tailored to ambulatory workflows. + Working knowledge of child growth and development, family dynamics, therapeutic play, developmental assessment, the learning process, group process and behavior management, the reactions of children and their families to illness and healthcare encounters, interventions to support coping, collaboration with other healthcare professionals, basic medical terminology and children's illnesses.