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Job Description
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- Excellent communication skills with adults and children with complex care needs
- Enthusiastic and motivated with a good conscientious attitude.
- Flexibility to meet service demand.
- Problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Ability to work within a team setting.
- Ability to work autonomously.
- Able to plan implement and evaluate play programmes.
- Basic IT skills
- Excellent use of the English language demonstrated through effective written and verbal communication and presentation skills
- Experience of working with children who have complex needs.
- Play therapy within a school, hospital or hospice environment
- Experience of bereavement support within in a healthcare setting.
- NNEB or equivalent qualification
- Excellent communication skills with adults and children with complex care needs
- Enthusiastic and motivated with a good conscientious attitude.
- Flexibility to meet service demand.
- Problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Ability to work within a team setting.
- Ability to work autonomously.
- Able to plan implement and evaluate play programmes.
- Basic IT skills
- Excellent use of the English language demonstrated through effective written and verbal communication and presentation skills
- Experience of working with children who have complex needs.
- Play therapy within a school, hospital or hospice environment
- Experience of bereavement support within in a healthcare setting.
- NNEB or equivalent qualification
Job summary
Play leaders are key members of the Zoes Place team, working with nurses, Health Care Assistants, fundraising staff, play specialists and outside agencies. The play leader will develop age- appropriate play plans for children with complex care needs, contributing towards the holistic care of the children we support. Within the care team, the postholder will promote an awareness of the emotional needs of children and the importance of play, working in partnership with parents, siblings, carers and care staff and encouraging positive play experiences. The postholder will ensure that all care and interactions are of the highest standards.
Main duties of the job
Establish and maintain effective communication with children, families and professionals across health and social care services.
Ensure that all children receive the appropriate play and stimulation related to their emotional / developmental needs. Organise and facilitate said play with support.
Devise individualised play plans for children.
Create individual developmental and play assessments for every child, adjusting when the childs needs have changed, with support.
Ensure that individual childrens care plans are followed to the highest standards.
Provide psycho-social, emotional and physical care and support to children and families.
Create a warm, welcoming, caring and safe environment, which is child-friendly.
Through the provision of play provide support for the families and siblings that are under stress and in crisis, demonstrating commitment to family-centred care.
Inform, educate, support and advise families about the role of play.
Normalise the hospice environment to replicate activities which can be done in other settings.
Advocate for the child and family, recognising challenges and supporting decisions and choices.
Arrange trips and activities for children in line with Zoes Place Patient outings and transport policy and Sibling outings and activities policy.
Create opportunities for legacy building (memory-making) for families by providing them with options and resources.
About us
Zoes Place Baby Hospice supports babies and young children who have complex illnesses or disabilities from birth to age five.
We work to ensure that very unwell children can enjoy the best possible quality of life and we support their families throughout their journey.
Zoe's Place offer respite, palliative and end of life care for children, as well as support for the whole family. With a range of play therapies and fun activities, our team of specialists work together to make every moment of childhood count.
Details
Date posted
18 June 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
Depending on experience £24,762 to £27,277
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time
Reference number
B0035-25-0002
Job locations
Zoe's Place Baby Hospice
High Street
Normanby
Middlesbrough
Cleveland
TS6 9DA
Job descriptionJob description
Job responsibilities
Play leaders are key members of the Zoes Place team, working with nurses, Health Care Assistants, fundraising staff, play specialists and outside agencies. The play leader will develop age- appropriate play plans for children with complex care needs, contributing towards the holistic care of the children we support. Within the care team, the postholder will promote an awareness of the emotional needs of children and the importance of play, working in partnership with parents, siblings, carers and care staff and encouraging positive play experiences. The postholder will ensure that all care and interactions are of the highest standards.
Job responsibilities
Play leaders are key members of the Zoes Place team, working with nurses, Health Care Assistants, fundraising staff, play specialists and outside agencies. The play leader will develop age- appropriate play plans for children with complex care needs, contributing towards the holistic care of the children we support. Within the care team, the postholder will promote an awareness of the emotional needs of children and the importance of play, working in partnership with parents, siblings, carers and care staff and encouraging positive play experiences. The postholder will ensure that all care and interactions are of the highest standards.
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Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Zoe’s Place Baby Hospice
Address
Zoe's Place Baby Hospice
High Street
Normanby
Middlesbrough
Cleveland
TS6 9DA
Employer's website
https://www.zoes-place.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Zoe’s Place Baby Hospice
Address
Zoe's Place Baby Hospice
High Street
Normanby
Middlesbrough
Cleveland
TS6 9DA
Employer's website
https://www.zoes-place.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
About the company
National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.
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