Health Play Specialist / Nursery Nurse | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 05 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £25,147 - £27,596 pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 05 May 2024 |
| Location: | 317 02 Royal Victoria Infirmary, NE1 4LP |
| Company: | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6106140/317-2024-12-19-DR |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has become available for a Hospital Play Specialist/Nursery Nurse to join our Children and Young Peoples medical day unit within the Great North Children’s Hospital. Ward 2b is a nurse led unit providing care and support for children and young people with chronic conditions requiring complex treatment including endocrine, respiratory, metabolic, oncology, renal, gastroenterology and rheumatology.
• Interview date: 22nd April 2024
• 15 hours /week (2 days)
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
• Provide support , teaching and guidance to parents/carers and children/young people whilst undergoing investigations and treatments.
• Supporting children and young people with both learning difficulties and disabilities when coming into hospital. Working closely with the pre assessment and learning disability teams.
• Provide a range of child centred activities to enhance the patient experience within the hospital environment.
• Take an active role in health promotion and education.
• Work within a multi- disciplinary team to support children and young people ensuing their holistic needs are met.
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, we have around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 2 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Health Play Specialist
• The Health Play Specialist role will, under the accountability of the Ward Sister/Charge Nurse to offer normalising and specialised play for children and young people with complex healthcare needs and their families, considering age, stage of development, medical condition and background to promote emotional health and optimal development, this will include the effects of hospitalisation, ill health and treatments required.
• The Play Specialist is required to have knowledge and experience of developmental, emotional and social play for all age ranges and abilities of children in hospital.
• Inform, educate, support and advise other healthcare specialists, nursing staff, and families in the role of play.
• Use play to help and assist in alleviating anxieties, pain, or emotional trauma caused to the child, young person and their families, which can often occur in the unfamiliar hospital environment, aiding them to engage in hospital life, promoting their understanding of their healthcare needs, investigations and treatments.
• The post holder is expected to be a fully integrated member of the department team.
• Contribute to the maintenance, consistency and development of the play service throughout the Trust.
• Receive requests from relevant healthcare professionals and other HPS for a patient to be seen following a referral to a medical consultant and his team.
• To escort children and young people to theatre (where appropriate) in line with Trust policy, to aid and promote understanding and coping mechanisms.
Nursery Nurse
• To assist in therapeutic assessments and carry out play programmes for children and young people in hospital, according to their individual needs and as part of the overall care plan.
• To monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of play using reflective practice to achieve best outcomes.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
This advert closes on Monday 15 Apr 2024
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