Gaming Technology Specialist

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A career at Children's Colorado will challenge you, inspire you, and motivate you to make a difference in the life of a child. Here, it's different.

The Gaming Technology Specialist builds relationships with patients and their families through gaming system and recreational play therapy. The Specialist develops, coordinates and implements gaming related programs that support CHCO's Child Life and Seacrest Studio goals and objectives.

The Gaming Technology Specialist is part of the Children's Hospital Colorado Child Life team and is responsible for providing overall gaming implementation, strategy, training, and technical support (various XR platforms, PlayStation, Nintendo, Xbox, PC, iPads, etc.). This role leads installing, testing, maintaining, troubleshooting and supporting gaming systems, peripherals, and related hardware within the context of the Child Life Department, along with documenting and assessing the use of these technologies in clinical application (from recreational play to procedural support and everything in between). The Gaming Technology Specialist serves as part of the Extended Reality Program, a group of multidisciplinary leaders spearheading the use of XR tech in the hospital.

Department Name: Seacrest Studios
Job Status: 40 hrs FT
Shift: M-F 8-430p

• Education: High school diploma or equivalent is required.
• Experience: Minimum of two (2) years of related experience in the gaming field and/or health care setting.

POPULATION SPECIFIC CARE

Toddlers - >1yr to 3yrs

Pre-Schoolers - >3yrs to 5yrs

School age - >5yrs to 13yrs

Adolescent - >13yrs to 18yrs

Adult - >18yrs to 65yrs

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

An employee in this position may be called upon to do any or all of the following essential functions. These examples do not include all of the functions which the employee may be expected to perform.

1. Provides overall gaming implementation, strategy, training and technical support to the program.
2. Creates and leads the life cycle of system implementation and upkeep, including the installation, training and technical support
3. Utilizes industry knowledge to implement best practices on all applicable gaming systems, equipment, and emerging technologies
4. Disseminates technical knowledge, including formal training across the Child Life team and other individuals and departments across the hospital
5. Coordinates the development and maintenance of departmental resources
6. Installs, maintains, troubleshoots, updates and repairs gaming systems and related peripheral equipment
7. Coordinates with clinicians to develop care plans related to gaming in both inpatient and outpatient setting
8. Works closely with patients and families to deploy appropriately-assigned gaming technologies
9. Collaborates with team members on research related to gaming system implementation and outcomes with relation to patient care
10. Serves as a representative of the program between program, department, CHCO and community partners.
11. Leads special projects involving gaming and XR technologies, including but not limited to presentations for leadership, donors, partners, and other key stakeholders

SCOPE & LEVEL

• Guidelines: Fully qualified, full performance or journey level. Guidelines are generally but not always clearly applicable, requiring the employee to exercise judgment in selecting the most pertinent guideline, interpret precedents, adapt standard practices to differing situations, and recommend alternative actions in situations without precedent.
• Complexity: Duties assigned are generally complex and may be of substantial intricacy. Work assignment is performed within an established framework under general instructions but requires simultaneous coordination of assigned functions or projects in various stages of completion.
• Decision Making: Exercises judgment and discretion, and is responsible for determining the time, place and sequence of the work performed.
• Communications: Contacts with team members, clients or the public where explanatory or interpretive information is exchanged, defended, and gathered and discretion and judgment are required within the parameters of the job function.
• Supervision Received: Performs work with minimal supervisory oversight. Under general supervision, the employee receives assignments and is expected to carry them through to completion with substantial independence. Work is reviewed for adherence to instructions, accuracy, completeness, and conformance to standard practice or precedent. Recurring work clearly covered by guidelines may or may not be reviewed.

Ability to Perform Essential Functions of the Job

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Audio-Visual: Color Discrimination - Fair
• Audio-Visual: Depth Perception - Fair
• Audio-Visual: Near Vision: Good
• Audio-Visual: Far Vision: Good
• Audio Visual: Hearing: Good
• Motion: Bend up to 1/3 of the time
• Motion: Reach up to 1/3 of the time
• Motion: Carry up to 1/3 of the time
• Motion: Pull up to 1/3 of the time
• Motion: Push up to 1/3 of the time
• Weight Lifted/Force Exerted: Up to 10 lbs. or more of the time
• General Activity: Stand/Walk up to 4hrs a day
• Use of hands/feet: Precise Motion Function (or fine manipulation)

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Exposure: Exposure to blood/body fluid: Regular/Frequent.
• Exposure: Exposure to cold/heat: Occasional.
• Exposure: Exposure to infectious diseases: Occasional.
• Exposure: Exposure to dampness: Occasional.
• Mental and Emotional Requirements: Makes decisions under pressure.
• Mental and Emotional Requirements: Manages stress appropriately.
• Mental and Emotional Requirements: Works with others effectively.

It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information.

The position is expected to stay open until the posted close date. Please submit your application as soon as possible as the posting is subject to close at any time once a sufficient pool of qualified applicants is obtained.

Colorado Residents: In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

Here, you matter. As a Children's Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development resources to help you advance and grow.

As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.

Children's Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.