Play Specialist - Nottingham, United Kingdom - Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Description
NHS AfC:
Band 4
Main area
- Play Service
Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
Contract
- Fixed term: 18 months
Hours
- Full time hours per week
Job ref
Site
- Queens Medical Centre
Town
- Nottingham
Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 per annum
Salary period
- Yearly
Closing
- 09/07/2023 23:59
We offer a wide range of services from our medical to surgical wards, day case and outpatients, oncology, rheumatology, neurology, orthopaedics, ENT, Burns and Plastics, Cleft lip and Palate, children's high independency and intensive care and long term ventilation.
Main duties of the job
To provide therapeutic intervention including preparation, distraction and post procedural play.
To be able to devise and implement play programmes for rehabilitation
To be able to produce procedure plan for our referral patients to help them through invasive and non invasive procedures.
Working for our organisation
Nottingham Children's Hospital is recognized nationally and internationally for our standards of care excellence.
We produce research that has the potential to change clinical practice around the UK and across the world, and we're leading the way in a number of new innovations to further improve clinical practice and patient and staff experience.
To further this, we have become the first children's hospital in the UK and in Europe, to achieve the Pathway to Excellence accreditation.
The accreditation means that Nottingham Children's Hospital is internationally recognized as an excellent place for nurses to work, with high job satisfaction, professional opportunity and retention, which enables our staff to deliver outstanding patient care.
The programme is recognized globally as enabling nursing excellence, instilling a strong sense of professional pride and offers proven strategies to help ensure that the care that we deliver to our patients is of the highest standards.
In addition to the brief list above you must familiarise yourself with the full job description and person specification attached to this advert prior to applying.
The post holder will be required to work some of the shift unsupervise.
To provide a welcoming, child friendly atmosphere with a caring, attitude towards children and their families.
To act as the child's advocate ensuring the child's best interests come first.
Understand the need and the use of preparation, distraction, post procedural and passive play and implement this to support the child and family through MRI Scans and treatment needed.
To initiate and participate in preparation and distraction for invasive/painful procedures.
Work with the child's family as a whole, respecting their needs and wishes whilst providing the best care for the child.
Be responsible for the general maintenance of toys and equipment as required.
To be responsible to the child and their family to ensure that correct preparation for procedures is given.
Attend ward/play staff meetings.
Liaise with play manager concerning professional development needs.
To take an active role in the training of nursery nursing, nursing, medical and Hospital Play Specialist students and completing their reports.
To demonstrate and teach members of the multi-disciplinary team (this may include going into the school of nursing) the theories and usage of play preparation within the department.
Participate in the provision of on-going education for children and their families about recreation and play activities.
Participate in audits which provide information of the quality and quantity of care provided by Children's Services.
Assist in monitoring and evaluating the service given to patients and their carers.
Following individual performance management (IPM), liaise with the Hospital Play Specialist Lead in agreeing how identified training and development needs are to be met.
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- HPSET Registered
- Healthcare Play Specialist Foundation Degree
- Level childcare
- Safeguarding Training
Essential criteria
- Minimum 2 years experience in a childcare setting
- minimum 1 year experience in a children's hospital
- safeguarding course
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