Health Play Specialist
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Job overview
Health Play Specialist
West Middlesex site base
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated Health Play Specialist to join the Play Team at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital. The successful candidate will be working alongside a team of Play Support workers, Health Play Specialists, Senior Health Play Specialist and a Youth worker, as well as part of the Multi-Disciplinary team. This role is based at West Middlesex, but there is cross cover to our other site at Chelsea and Westminster as required.
The Play and Youth Service works closely with the Physiotherapists and provide joint MDT care within our wards.
The role requires you to have excellent verbal and communication skills, and a clear understanding of safeguarding processes and patient confidentiality. The successful candidate will have a working knowledge of child development theories, and how to implement them to support development through play. The successful candidate will hold a Fda in Healthcare Play Specialism or a recognised health play specialist qualification and will be registered with HPSET.
Main duties of the job
The Health Play Specialist will be required to work both autonomously, and as part of the team, and will be required to organise their working day to fit in with the needs of the patients and families.
Play and therapeutic support is central to a patient’s care pathway, and with this in mind, the successful applicant will need to be able to work creatively to ensure that long-term patients have access to a wide variety of stimulating play activities and support. As well as being able to provide a high level of procedure support to our patients before, during and after hospital procedures.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This role will enable the post holder to gain experience in covering a variety of paediatric areas including Children's Outpatients, HDU, Day Surgery and General Paediatric Inpatients.
The Play service runs from 08:00 - 18:00, and may include some Bank Holidays, weekends and evenings when necessary.
Please note only applicants who hold a recognised Health Play Specialist qualification will be considered.