# Hospital Play Team Worker

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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- **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/hospital-play-team-worker/f97ed6c3-8964-4168-b22f-1097dc2a9d95
- **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/hospital-play-team-worker/f97ed6c3-8964-4168-b22f-1097dc2a9d95.md

## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Preston
- **Region:** North West
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Healthcare support worker
- **Grade:** Band 3
- **Salary:** £25,760 - £27,476 Per annum, pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part time - 20 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-10T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-27T12:30:31.801Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Lancashire/Preston/Lancashire_Teaching_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Hospital_Play_team_Worker/Hospital_Play_team_Worker-v8184877
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8184877?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.lancsteachinghospitals.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Where every day you can make a child smile—even on their toughest days.

Are you creative, energetic, and passionate about making a difference? Do you believe glitter is a coping strategy and that playtime is serious business? If so… we want YOU!

Create play experiences that truly connect with each child by tailoring activities to their emotional state and developmental stage. These experiences are shaped through thoughtful observation, warm interactions, and meaningful conversations with the child or young person—and with their parents or carers—throughout their time in our care.

Deliver individualised play sessions both on the ward and in the sensory room, ensuring each session is carefully designed to support the child or young person’s emotional, physical, and developmental needs. These sessions aim to offer comfort, stimulation, and a safe space for self‑expression during their healthcare journey.

### Main duties of the job

### 🧩 About the Role

As a Hospital Play Worker, you’ll be a superhero in plain clothes (cape optional). You’ll support children and young people during their hospital stay by:

- 🎭 Creating fun, imaginative play sessions to help children feel at ease
- 🩺 Using play to help prepare patients for procedures
- 💬 Providing distraction, comfort, and reassurance during difficult moments
- 🤝 Working closely with nurses, doctors, and families to make the hospital feel a little more like home
- 🎨 Transforming even the dullest waiting area into a magical world of creativity

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

### 1. Therapeutic & Developmental Play

- Provide daily play and art activities in playrooms, or at the bedside.
- Use play to support normal developmental milestones and promote emotional wellbeing.
- Tailor activities based on age, ability, developmental stage, and emotional need.
- Help children regain skills affected by illness or hospitalisation.

## Person Specification

### Knowledge and Experience

**Essential**

- Experience working with children and young people
- An understanding of safeguarding children
- Understanding of child development and the role of play in healthcare
- Awareness of safeguarding and infection control procedures

**Desirable**

- Experience of working with children
- Experience with adolescents and children with dysregulated behaviour
- Experience with adolescents and children with additional needs and neurodiversity
- Experience of working with children in a hospital setting
- Evidence of working within a MDT team

### Qualifications and Education

**Essential**

- GCSE Maths and English Grade C and above or equivalent
- Level 3 or equivalent childcare and education/child development/play qualification
- Evidence of continued professional development

**Desirable**

- Up to date: Child Protection/ First Aid/ Food Safety/ Inclusion training/ safeguarding
- A clear Enhanced DBS – Child & Adult

## Documents

- [what we can offer you (pdf, 6.7mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2464)
- [creating your best application (pdf, 6.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2433)
- [job description and person specification (pdf, 464.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10488705)

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