# Health Play Specialist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/health-play-specialist/805409d2-e48e-4298-80e8-b64b7e68d77e - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/health-play-specialist/805409d2-e48e-4298-80e8-b64b7e68d77e.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust - **Location:** St Helier Hospital and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Play specialist - **Grade:** Band 4 - **Salary:** £33,262 - £36,027 pa incl HCAS Outer pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent: 5 days a week - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-27T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-08T12:10:51.518Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Epsom/Epsom_St_Helier_University_Hospitals_NHS_Trust/Health_Play_Specialist/Health_Play_Specialist-v8256032 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8256032?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.epsom-sthelier.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Health Play Specialist- Band 4 Full time and part time options are available Would you like to work in Epsom General Hospital. Are you a newly qualified or experienced Health Play Specialist and wanting a step in the door to working within the NHS and provide play and support to Children and their Families in acute care. If so, then this post is for you, you will have the opportunity to support all ages and a variety of medical conditions. The Health Play Specialist works within the MDT on the ward, ensuring that all Children and Young People have a positive admission experience. ### Main duties of the job You will be working to organise play activities to help children prepare for clinical procedures, safeguarding reviews and to work through their concerns and worries through a range of techniques suitable. The work that you will be doing will be supported by a combination of evidence based practice and theoretical knowledge which will enable you to be able to plan, implement, review and evaluate therapeutic play programmes that support children (from birth) and young people emotionally and developmentally. You will also be providing support to parents, carers and the wider family, including siblings, and will offer advice on how they can use play to help their children make sense of what's happening to them. The Foundation degree in Healthcare Play Specialism, Edex /BTEC in Specialised play for the sick child or the previous HPSC/HPSEB, or international equivalent, is required for this post along with current registration with HPSET. Students currently undertaking the FdA Healthcare play specialism are welcome to apply or those working towards the registration. For further details / informal visits contact: ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see the attached supporting Job description/Person Specification documents which contains more information about the role ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of working with children aged 0 -18 years and understanding their developmental process. - Experience leading play / recreation activities for babies, children and young people - Experience of working with children in a healthcare setting **Desirable** - Ability to deal with conflict in a professional manner. - Supervisory Skills/ Mentoring students ### Qualifications **Essential** - Registered and Qualified Health Play Specialist holding the Foundation Degree in Healthcare Play Specialism - NNEB/NVQ Level 3 or equivalent training involving normal childcare development ### Knowledge and Skills **Essential** - Knowledge of child development and the ability to apply therapeutic play intervention for children - Recognition of the effects of hospitalisation on the child and family - Awareness of child safeguarding processes - Knowledge of professional and ethical issues, including professional boundaries **Desirable** - Knowledge of current best practice in clinical area - Basic competency of Word andExcel ## Documents - [dbs policy (pdf, 101.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=677) - [we're here to care (doc, 39.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=678) - [ai toolkit for candidates (pdf, 1.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2413) - [jd supplementary information (pdf, 151.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1953) - [a day in the life of an aca/driver (pdf, 2.7mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1961) - [health play specialist casey 2026 (pdf, 767.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10569330) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.