Child Life Activity Coordinator - Cancer & Hematology Center

About the job

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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required
• One year of experience working with children in a hospital or non-hospital environment preferred

About Us

Since 1954, Texas Children’s has been leading the charge in patient care, education and research to accelerate health care for children and women around the world. When you love what you do, it truly shows in the smiles of our patient families, employees and our numerous accolades such as being consistently ranked as the best children’s hospital in Texas, and among the top in the nation by U.S. News & World Report as well as recognition from Houston Business Journal as one of this city’s Best Places to Work for ten consecutive years.

Texas Children’s comprehensive health care network includes our primary hospital in the Texas Medical Center with expertise in over 40 pediatric subspecialties; the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI); the Feigin Tower for pediatric research; Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women, a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility focusing on high-risk births; Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus, a community hospital in suburban West Houston; Texas Children’s Hospital The Woodlands, the first hospital devoted to children’s care for communities north of Houston; and Texas Children’s Hospital North Austin, the new state-of-the-art facility providing world-class pediatric and maternal care to Austin and Central Texas families. We have also created Texas Children’s Health Plan, the nation’s first HMO focused on children; Texas Children’s Pediatrics, the largest pediatric primary care network in the country; Texas Children’s Urgent Care clinics that specialize in after-hours care tailored specifically for children; and a global health program that is channeling care to children and women all over the world. Texas Children’s Hospital is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine, one of the largest, most diverse and successful pediatric programs in the nation.

To join our community of 15,000+ dedicated team members, visit texaschildrenspeople.org for career opportunities.

Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.

Additional Information

• Job Identification: 428227
• Job Category: Clinical Support
• Posting Date: 2026-10-23
• Job Schedule: Full time
• Locations: 6701 Fannin St, Houston, TX, 77030, US ()