Hospital Play Specialist Team Leader | Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk - Jobboard; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare facility in Nottingham is looking for a Hospital Play Specialist Team Leader to provide leadership for a play team and implement specialized therapeutic interventions for children. Applicants must be qualified and registered as a Hospital Play Specialist. This role involves managing play services, ensuring a safe and welcoming environment for children and families, and providing developmental play activities across various wards. The position offers significant opportunities for job and personal development.

Benefits

Endless personal development opportunities

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Must hold the correct play specialist qualifications and be registered with HPSET.
• Experience in managing a play team and developing play services.
• Ability to provide therapeutic interventions and specialized play.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for technical and junior staff through role modelling.
• Supervise HPS and degree level students on practice placement.
• Contribute to safeguarding and sourcing funds for environmental improvements.

Skills

Play intervention techniques

Team leadership

Organizational skills

Education

Hospital Play Specialist qualifications

NNEB or CACHE Diploma in Nursery Nursing

Job description

This is a new exciting opportunity for a Hospital Play Specialist Team Leader to join Nottingham children's hospital. We offer a wide range of learning across various different specialities.

The successful applicant must hold the correct play specialist qualifications and be registered with the society of healthcare play specialists with an active live pin number.

The job includes providing therapeutic intervention for our patients whilst also having extra responsibilities including management over the play team and developing the hospital play service at Nottingham Children's Hospital.

The Play and Development Service is made up of qualified health play specialists and nursery nurses who provide play and recreation for children and young people on wards, clinics, day surgery and in the community.

The play service provides normal and everyday play as well as specialist and therapeutic play for children and young people in our care. This includes:

• play preparation

• distraction

• post procedural play

• normal and developmental play

The role includes providing leadership for technical and junior staff through role modelling and teaching and the management of Band 5 play specialists and below. The post holder will also supervise HPS and degree level students on practice placement.

The post holder will take an active role in improving the safety and quality of services for children, contributing to safeguarding and sourcing funds for environmental improvements, building partnerships with external funders.

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

The post holder will be required to provide a safe, welcoming child friendly environment for the patients and families organising play and leisure activities across the various children’s wards, whilst implementing specialised play and therapeutic intervention as necessary. This role will also require management skills as you will be in a senior role and step up as deputy when the play lead is absent.



The post holder should be a qualified Hospital Play Specialist (HPS) and registered with HPSET. They may also hold the NNEB or CACHE Diploma in Nursery Nursing or BTEC National Diploma in Nursery Nursing/Childhood Studies or equivalent.




This advert closes on Sunday 10 Aug 2025