Health play specialist

Knowledge

K1: Standards of personal and professional conduct, possible conflicts of care and how to report breaches of professional standards. Back to Duty

K2: Limits of your practice. Back to Duty

K3: Lone working, personal and others’ safety, employer’s policies and the need to maintain the safety of service-users. Back to Duty

K4: Responsibilities to escalate and disclose information through the appropriate channels in regards to safeguarding and Prevent. Back to Duty

K5: Employers’ guidelines on reporting risks, incidents and escalation process. Back to Duty

K6: Registration requirements, continuous reflection and improvement to practice. Back to Duty

K7: National legislation, local policies, workplace procedures, advice, and guidance including relating to culture, equality, diversity, and inclusion. Back to Duty

K8: Professional duty of care and steps to reduce the risk of harm to service-users, carers, and colleagues. Back to Duty

K9: The importance of maintaining own health and wellbeing. Back to Duty

K10: Importance of ongoing professional development and training, professional registration and incorporating changes to own role. Back to Duty

K11: The nature and severity of a problem in professional situations. Back to Duty

K12: Developmental needs of the service-user and how to use normalising interventions, preparation, distraction, and post procedural play techniques by initiating, continuing, modifying and ceasing play. Back to Duty

K13: Play techniques and use of resources to improve the service users experience and wellbeing. Back to Duty

K14: Coping strategies in order to minimise service-user's distress and anxiety during clinical procedures. Back to Duty

K15: The importance of choice and control through service-user centred care that support positive outcomes. Back to Duty

K16: Partnership and team working approaches to ensure that clinical procedures are planned and managed. Back to Duty

K17: How sharing information, interventions and accurate records contributes to the management and the care provided for a service-user. Back to Duty

K18: Play interactions that enable a child and their family to understand their condition and learn the sensory and factual information they need to prepare for any treatment or procedure or to make any necessary lifestyle changes. Back to Duty

K19: The importance of gaining consent before providing care and support to service-users to maintain their own health and well-being. Back to Duty

K20: How to make and receive referrals in line with organisational policy. Back to Duty

K21: The importance of participation in training, mentorship, coaching and supervision in order to support service users, health professionals, colleagues, students, and apprentices. Back to Duty

K22: How to provide support and guidance to ensure that safe practice can be monitored and maintained when working with junior staff. Back to Duty

K23: How to supervise and delegate to others ensuring the knowledge, skills and experience required to work safely and effectively. Back to Duty

K24: The purpose of supporting the multidisciplinary team and other professionals to understand the needs and preferences of service-user's and how play and health services impact their care. Back to Duty

K25: Needs of different service-users and how to adapt practice or make reasonable adjustments to promote inclusive service provision. Back to Duty

K26: Ways to use, record and store data and information related to service-users securely and in line with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements and local and national policies, including the safe use of digital technology. Back to Duty

K27: Different communication skills and strategies to maximise understanding for service-users and to facilitate assessment and engagement of those with protected characteristics. Back to Duty

K28: Communication support systems which can assist the service-user and how interpersonal skills can encourage active participation. Back to Duty

K29: The importance and impact of team and partnership working to service delivery in and across different sectors and the value of sharing skills knowledge and expertise. Back to Duty

K30: The value of enabling and engaging service-users in planning and evaluating therapeutic play techniques to support treatments and interventions to meet their needs and goals. Back to Duty

K31: Evidence-based practice, audit procedures, systematic practice evaluation and continuous improvement. Back to Duty

K32: Information gathering to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions. Back to Duty

K33: Theoretical concepts underpinning play, therapeutic play and the development of service-user. Back to Duty

K34: Processes to devise, implement and review developmental and individual therapeutic play plans for the service-user. Back to Duty

K35: Normalising, developmental and therapeutic play activities within safe environments for service-users. Back to Duty

K36: Physical, psychological, social, cultural, and environmental needs, challenges and perspectives of service-users. Back to Duty

K37: The importance of continuous self-reflection, seeking and responding to support and feedback to develop professional knowledge and skills. Back to Duty

K38: Quality control, quality assurance and the role of audit and review in quality management and outcome measures. Back to Duty

K39: Socio-cultural diversity of the community and the specific local context of practice, and work-related policies and services that can impact on individual needs within a diverse society. Back to Duty

K40: The impact of economic inequality, poverty, and exclusion on and the ability to access services. Back to Duty

K41: Potential new and emerging areas of practice in play. Back to Duty

K42: Leadership theories and styles, and the impact these can have on service-users and the organisation. Back to Duty

K43: Current and developing sustainable principles and techniques. Back to Duty

Skills

S1: Maintain standards of personal and professional conduct, avoid possible conflicts of care and report breaches of professional standards. Back to Duty

S2: Work within the remit of your professional boundaries, inform appropriate practitioners if the care or treatment is not within the scope of your professional boundaries or expertise. Back to Duty

S3: Refer and delegate to appropriate practitioners wherever you find yourself unable to maintain objectivity and professional boundaries. Back to Duty

S4: Comply with lone working policies considering your own personal and others' safety. Back to Duty

S5: Adhere to safeguarding and prevent policies following procedures to escalate and disclosure of information, through the appropriate channels. Back to Duty

S6: Adhere to employers’ guidelines on reporting risks, incidents and escalation process. Back to Duty

S7: Reflection and improvement to practice to enable registration. Back to Duty

S8: Adhere to up to date national legislation, local policies, workplace procedures, advice, and guidance, supporting the rights of service users, colleagues and visitors, including relating to culture, equality, diversity, and inclusion. Back to Duty

S9: Exercise a professional duty of care ensuring no act or omission is detrimental to the condition or safety of service-users in your care or their families, carers and colleagues, to deal with concerns. Back to Duty

S10: Maintain own health and wellbeing, seeking advice and changing practise to reduce possible risks. Back to Duty

S11: Take personal responsibility for ongoing professional development and training opportunities and professional registration. Back to Duty

S12: Assess professional situations, determining the nature and severity of a problem acting within your professional scope of practice. Back to Duty

S13: Use normalising interventions, preparation, distraction, and post procedural play techniques by initiating, continuing, modifying, and ceasing play, based on the developmental needs of all service-users, to build on their abilities and enhance their experience. Back to Duty

S14: Apply play techniques selecting appropriate play resources to improve the service user's needs, experience and wellbeing. Back to Duty

S15: Apply coping strategies in order to minimise service-user's distress and anxiety during clinical procedures. Back to Duty

S16: Facilitate choice and control through service-user centred care, using play-based techniques that support positive outcomes. Back to Duty

S17: Work in partnership and with other professions as part of a team to ensure that clinical procedures are planned and managed. Back to Duty

S18: Share information, interventions and accurate records agreeing goals and priorities with other identified professionals to contribute to the management and the care provided for a service user. Back to Duty

S19: Guide a child and their family to understand their condition and learn the sensory and factual information they need to prepare for any treatment or procedure or to make any necessary lifestyle changes through play interactions. Back to Duty

S20: Encourage and help service-users to maintain their own health and well-being, and support them so they can make informed decisions ensuring patient consent is gained. Back to Duty

S21: Make and receive referrals in line with organisation’s referral policy. Back to Duty

S22: Participate in training, mentorship, coaching and supervision in order to support service users, health professionals, colleagues, students, and apprentices. Back to Duty

S23: Provide support and guidance to ensure that safe practice can be monitored and maintained when working with junior staff. Back to Duty

S24: Supervise and delegate to others ensuring the knowledge, skills and experience required to work safely and effectively. Back to Duty

S25: Raise awareness within the multidisciplinary team and other professionals of the needs, preferences and the impact of service-user's care through play and health services. Back to Duty

S26: Adapt practice or make reasonable adjustments to meet the needs of different service-users to take account of new developments, changing contexts and promote inclusive service provision. Back to Duty

S27: Use, record and store data and information related to service-users securely and in line with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements and local and national policies, including the safe use of digital technology. Back to Duty

S28: Use and adapt communication skills and strategies to maximise understanding for service-users and to facilitate assessment and engagement of those with protected characteristics. Back to Duty

S29: Undertake work collaboratively with others as part of a professional team in and across different sectors sharing skills knowledge and expertise. Back to Duty

S30: Engage service-users in planning and evaluating therapeutic play techniques to support treatments and interventions to meet their needs and goals. Back to Duty

S31: Engage in evidence-based practice and participate in audit procedures evaluating systematic practice, working towards continual improvement. Back to Duty

S32: Gather information to assess service-users, use information to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions and revise plans as necessary. Back to Duty

S33: Apply the theoretical concepts underpinning play, therapeutic play and the development of service-user. Back to Duty

S34: Devise and implement developmental and individual therapeutic play plans for the service-user including specific and timely reviews. Back to Duty

S35: Conduct normalising, developmental and therapeutic play activities, support procedures, treatments, therapy, or other actions within safe environments for service-users. Back to Duty

S36: Identify and assess physical, psychological, social, cultural, and environmental needs and challenges of service-users. Back to Duty

S37: Identify the importance of self reflection, using research, apply reasoning, problem-solving skills and feedback, to inform own practice and improve areas of personal performance. Back to Duty

S38: Participate in quality assurance programs. Back to Duty

Behaviours

B1: Show respect, compassion, and uphold the rights, dignity, values, and autonomy of all individuals whilst maintaining high standards of care. Back to Duty

B2: Recognise that you are personally responsible for own actions and decisions. Back to Duty

B3: Adopt an empathetic approach and demonstrate discretion. Back to Duty

B4: Promotes equality, diversity and inclusion within the team, the wider organisation and service users. Back to Duty

B5: Be adaptable, reliable and consistent, resilient and self-aware. Back to Duty