Play Specialist

5 months ago

Boston, United Kingdom United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust Full time

We are recruiting for a full time Registered Health Play Specialist on the Children and Young Person's Unit at Pilgrim Hospital, Boston.

As a Registered Health Play Specialist, you will join the current Play Team working across Children’s Services. The team are proactive, determined to provide quality intervention and find the best solutions for patients, families and those we work alongside.

You will have excellent therapeutic, developmental play and communication knowledge and skills, have experience in supporting children and young people through diagnostic and medical / treatment procedures and the ability to work autonomously and with other members of the multidisciplinary team.

If you are passionate about therapeutic play and supporting families and are able to build good relationships with children, young people, families and the people you work with then we would like to hear from you.
- Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide support for children and their families.
- Take on individual referrals for children experiencing difficulty in coping with the diagnosis and treatment and managing hospital admission / procedures. Using evidence based practice to assess, plan, implement and evaluate therapeutic interventions that may be needed in either the hospital and or the home environment.
- Provide therapeutic play interventions for specific medical procedures.
- Document therapeutic interventions and outcomes.
- Develop skills, knowledge and be responsible for own practice, through continued professional development.
- Promote an awareness of the emotional needs of children in hospital and the importance of play, within the multi-disciplinary team.
- Supervise Hospital Play Specialist students on placement.
- Provide leadership for junior staff, as delegated by manager.

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20/21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.

Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement - “Outstanding Care Personally Delivered” - stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.

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