Job summary
- Main area
- Play specialist children's services
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 337-NP-7175BS-E
- Employer
- London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northwick Park Hospital
- Town
- Harrow
- Salary
- £29,460 - £31,909 per annum inc hca
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Play Specialist
Band 4
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
- Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
- St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
- Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
- Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
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Our vision at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust is to put “Quality at our HEART”. Find out more about our ambitious strategy
We are clear that our vision can only be achieved by our staff, who are our most valuable asset.
Our vision is driven by our HEART values and behaviours which were developed together with our staff.
- H onesty
- E quity
- A ccountability
- R espect
- T eamwork
These values describe how we interact with each other and our patients and must underpin everything we do to achieve our vision.
LNWUH is a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
To work with a play team in supporting and promoting play within the trust as well as the paediatric department.
Main duties of the job
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work in our play team! We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Hospital Play Specialist to join our team. You will be an integral part of providing high quality care to the children of Brent, Harrow and Ealing. The successful applicant will work closely with the MDT to support children, young people and their families throughout the whole paediatric department. We have a 27 bedded inpatient unit, an 8 bedded Assessment unit, a 4 bedded day care unit, a POSCU centre and an outpatient department which makes up our very busy unit. The post holder must be passionate and committed to meeting the needs of children, young people and their families and strive to make their visit to the hospital as fun and painless as possible.
Working for our organisation
Based at Northwick park Hospital , you would also be supporting Ealing hospital outpatient and day-care
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To supporting play within the department
Distraction play with our children who may be having a procedure
Person specification
Hospital Play Qualification
Essential criteria
- Hospital Play Qualification
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in a hospital
Communication skills
Essential criteria
- Good communication skills
Desirable criteria
- communication skills with non verbal children
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jackie waldon
- Job title
- Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 073884900615
- Additional information
Jacks Place children's ward
Northwick Park Hospital
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