Play Specialist

As a vital member of the multi-professional team the play specialists contribute to the provision of high standards of patient care by organising and supervising therapeutic play for children before and during their hospital stay. Our Play Specialists create warm, caring and safe environments for children and their families and continually look for and initiate ways to improve children's experiences of healthcare.
Play Specialists provide important support to healthcare colleagues by ensuring children and young people have access to age and developmentally appropriate play preparation for procedures, distraction and access to play opportunities during their stay in hospital.

We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as ‘Outstanding’ and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England:

• Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021.


• National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all that we do.


• We are rated the sixth highest trust in the South East and in the top 25% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment.


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