# Health Play Specialist

**Company**: Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £34,186 to £37,389 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Join our team in a central London children's department as a qualified Health Play Specialist. You'll have the opportunity to grow in a role that offers varied shifts, from fast-paced to longer-term input with patients and families. Your skills will help you provide specialised play interventions, support families in celebrating key events and milestones, and contribute to multi-professional team care.

Key highlights:

- Offer specialised play from birth to teens

- Be part of exciting developments for babies, children, and young people, including those with additional needs

- Help families celebrate key events and milestones

- Work with a friendly team of play specialists, play workers, and volunteers

- Enjoy a central and accessible location

Responsibilities:

- Introduce play as a tool to communicate and support babies, children, and young people

- Assess, plan, and deliver specialised play interventions

- Build partnerships with families and siblings

- Contribute to multi-professional team care

- Document play input and share important information with other professionals

- Create a welcoming, safe, and age-appropriate environment for all

Requirements:

- Hold the Health Play Specialist qualification or due to qualify in summer 2026

- Registered with SOHPS

- Experience and confidence with specialised play interventions in healthcare

- Familiarity with games, activities, and devices enjoyed by all ages and stages

Benefits include career development, flexible working, wellbeing, staff recognition scheme, Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan, or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

## Skills

### Required
- Health Play Specialist qualification
- SOHPS registration
- specialised play interventions
- communication skills

### Nice to have
- additional training relevant to role
- communication strategies
- experience working with adolescents

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