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Play Team Professional Lead
| Posting date: | 04 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £29,970.00 to £36,483.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £29970.00 - £36483.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 July 2025 |
| Location: | 317 02 Royal Victoria Infirmary, NE1 4LP |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9317-25-0942 |
Summary
Access, analyse, document and record interventions in line with Trust policy Ensure equity of play provision across GNCH Interview Date: Monday 21 July 2025 Post 1 - Permanent or Fixed Term - 37 hours 30 minutes/week Post 2 - Fixed Term - 19 hours 30 minutes/week 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 NO AGENCIES PLEASE Provide a professional lead and role model to play staff, being professionally responsible for the play service across GNCH and coordinating the play team. Ensuring a high standard of service delivery To ensure consistency of play service delivery across GNCH and wider scope where appropriate across the Trust. Being able to practice safely and effectively within the scope of professional practice. Ensure all play staff are aware of and maintain the Society of Health Play Specialists Professional Standards Be able to practise within the legal and ethical boundaries of the profession, exercising your professional duty of candour Ensure staff are recruited to the play team with appropriate qualifications and skills Provide Mentorship to those working towards HPS qualification To organise and lead the play team meetings. Encouraging and maintaining regular attendance by all play staff. Creating an agenda for the meeting to include training and development items. Being able to communicate important messages to staff and act as a professional point of contact Be able to practise as an autonomous professional, exercising own professional judgement. Assist in service redesign, innovation, and excellence in service delivery. They will be an active champion for babies children and young people (BCYP), advocating for and ensuring that they are heard, while understood play service provision for them in hospital settings Take the lead in setting aims and objectives of the play service Lead on types of therapeutic play and distraction available for BCYP and families taking into account children with additional needs Ensure all play staff maintain any professional registration codes of conduct were necessary Plans develops and implements programmes of therapeutic play Lead on types of therapeutic play and distraction available for children and families taking into account children with additional needs Advise any issues/developments positive or negative about any aspect of play provision and service. Be responsible for professional standards and development of the play team. Inform, educate, support and advise other healthcare specialists, nursing staff, and families in the role of play. Ensure an outstanding and equitable play service is provided across GNCH Liaise closely with ward managers and attend appropriate meetings and contribute as required Keep up to date and adhere to national legislation, local policies, advice, and guidance. Take personal responsibility to meet the Professional Standards Immediately report any breach of the Professional Standards resulting in any disciplinary process by your employer or any police caution to SoHPS. Participate in Play Service Projects and produce reports as requested. These include audit of services 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.