Hospital Play Team Worker | Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Are you creative, energetic, and passionate about making a difference? Do you believe glitterisa coping strategy and that playtime is serious business? If so… we want YOU! Create play experiences that truly connect with each childby tailoring activities to their emotional state and developmental stage. These experiences are shaped through thoughtful observation, warm interactions, and meaningful conversations with the child or young person-and with their parents or carers-throughout their time in our care. Deliver individualised play sessions both on the ward and in the sensory room, ensuring each session is carefully designed to support the child or young person's emotional, physical, and developmental needs. These sessions aim to offer comfort, stimulation, and a safe space for self-expression during their healthcare journey. About the Role As a Hospital Play Worker, you'll be a superhero in plain clothes (cape optional). You'll support children and young people during their hospital stay by:

• Creating fun, imaginative play sessions to help children feel at ease
• Using play to help prepare patients for procedures
• Providing distraction, comfort, and reassurance during difficult moments
• Working closely with nurses, doctors, and families to make the hospital feel a little more like home
• Transforming even the dullest waiting area into a magical world of creativity
We have 10000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria. Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns. You'll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you'd never have done. You'll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path. You'll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of. 1. Therapeutic & Developmental Play
• Providedaily play and art activitiesin playrooms, or at the bedside.
• Use play to support normal developmental milestones and promote emotional wellbeing.
• Tailor activities based on age, ability, developmental stage, and emotional need.
• Help childrenregain skillsaffected by illness or hospitalisation.