Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatrics
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent: 22.5 hours
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (One Saturday a month)
- Job ref
- Healthcare Play specialist
- Employer
- St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Georges University Hospital
- Town
- tooting
- Salary
- £34,089 - £41,498 pro rota pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
- Interview date
- 08/08/2024
Employer heading
Senior Play Specialist
Band 5
Job overview
St George's Hospital is a large teaching hospital in the UK Tooting. Founded in 1733, it is provides care for up to 3.5 million patients. We have a very busy paediatric service here at St Georges but have a dedicated team members working together to provided a great Healthcare Play service. Come join us.
Main duties of the job
- To create an environment in which play occurs naturally at all times.
- To create an attractive, child-orientated environment including the child/young persons own work.
- To encourage play to maintain the child/young person’s link with family and home and to help the child/young person to adjust to the hospital situation.
- To provide appropriate play for normal growth (social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development) and to continue during hospitalisation, using knowledge of child development.
- To help familiarise the child/young person with strange apparatus and procedures to reduce stress and anxiety and to help the child/young person to understand his/her treatment illness.
- To take on individual referrals for children/young people experiencing difficulty in managing hospital admission/procedures, using evidence based practice to assess, plan, implement and evaluate therapeutic interventions.
- To prioritise own caseload in accordance with the individual/service needs of the play team under the supervision of the Lead Healthcare Play Specialist.
- To support children/young people using distraction therapy before, during and following painful or unpleasant treatment / procedures.
- To support play specialist staff and students to carry out duties and manage daily to daily demands of the service
- To take on referrals for patients needing support to access their medical needs
- To be involved in the organisation and delivery of the play component of pre-admission programmes
Working for our organisation
t Georges University Hospital has an wonderful opportunity for a part time senior band 5 Healthcare Play Specialist.
The post holder will be required to provide a safe, welcoming friendly environment for the patients and families organising play and leisure activities across the various children and young people wards and departments.
As part of your role you will need to support students and play specialists. There will be lots of opportunity for you to add to existing skills, whilst continuing to learn and develops an individual and alongside the service needs
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To observe the child/young persons development and emotional level and report observations to the appropriate staff and help the child/young person to express and explore feelings.
- To observe and assess the child/young persons anxieties and communicate these to the appropriate staff.
- To establish effective communication where the information may be complex and sensitive, both verbally and written, with all members of the multi-disciplinary team in child health and in other departments where children/young people are treated.
- To contribute to the written care plan of each child/young person and document interventions in the child/young person’s medical records.
- To attend and participate in multi – disciplinary ward meetings, child protection case conferences, discharge planning meetings.
- Take on referrals for patients needing additional input such as child protection medicals.
- Provide support to Junior staff and students
**Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document, which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification**
Person specification
application form
Essential criteria
- Foundation degree healthcare play specialism
- NQV level 3 childcare and education
Desirable criteria
- Guided imagery
- Makaton training
combined
Essential criteria
- experience of working in a hospital with children and young people
Desirable criteria
- experience of working in a trauma hospital
face to face
Essential criteria
- 3 years post qualification experience as a healthcare play Specialist
Desirable criteria
- young minds or mental health training
We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust – being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful – and behave in a way that reflects these. More information on the vision and values of St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is attached below.
Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applicants are received. Please check your email regularly as all candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted and informed by email.
If you are appointed to the post, as part of your pre-employment check we will be required to verify your identity. The document/s you present for this purpose will be checked for their authenticity by scanning all known security features. These features will include:
- The machine readable zone
- An ultra violet image
- An infra red image
As part of your pre-employment checks, we will also be required to obtain satisfactory, written references. Please ensure that the referee details which you provide on your application form are correct. We require at least one written reference from your current or most recent line manager. We are only able to accept references from a professional work email address.
Telephone: 02082963786
Text: 07501066267
Email: [email protected].
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Tracy Gibbons
- Job title
- Lead Play specialist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02087250331
- Additional information
Please feel free to email myself directly regarding this post.
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