Health Play Specialist
| Posting date: | 12 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £27,485.00 to £30,162.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £27485.00 - £30162.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 November 2025 |
| Location: | Gillingham, ME75NY |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9275-25-0490 |
Summary
We are a Friendly multidisciplinary team that provide Emergency care to Children and young persons that attend with minor injuries, illness and critical illness/ trauma. You will be working alongside experienced nurses, doctors and physicians assistants to ensure that our patients and families have a positive hospital experience. We understand and welcome play and distraction as integral to the hospital journey. We actively promote a culture of child and young person-centred care, that is maintained by the expertise of our diverse team. Health Play specialism is essential to achieve this. As a play specialist, you will utilise a variety of skills and expert knowledge acquired through experience, training and discussion with the multi professional team to provide play preparation, distraction and emotional support for the children undergoing a variety of procedures to a successful outcome. To provide,manage, contribute and develop the maintenance of an age appropriate environment where play and recreation occurs naturally and participate in quality initiatives in the play and clinical teams. Encourage play to maintain the childs link with family and home and to help the child adjust to the Emergency care situation. To provide, manage and lead appropriate play and recreational activities to enable normal cognitive, social and emotional development to continue during hospitalisation and treatment. To plan, implement and evaluate interventions to achieve therapeutic goals, in collaboration with the referrer, the child/young person and their family, managing own caseloads and demonstrating effective time management. To observe and assess the childs anxieties and communicate those to the appropriate staff. To provide stimulating activities through play for all ages and abilities to aid recovery. To encourageparents and all members of staff to participate in play To create an attractive child-oriented environment which includes the childrens work Lead and manage appropriate play and recreational activities to enable normal cognitive, social and emotional development to continue during hospitalisation and treatment. Through play provisions, contribute to clinical judgements based on the patients individual needs. Be influential in clinical decisions regarding patient compliance and an ability to use clinical judgements based on the patients individual needs. Develop and maintain an age appropriate environment where play and recreation occur naturally. Provide activities that can smoothly transition the care between hospital departments and external units.