Workforce Development

NHS Futures is ‘for everyone in health and care, supporting secure collaboration across organisations at no cost’. Health Play Specialist have a dedicated folder under the Children & Young People Nursing Network, providing a forum to share ideas and information

Here you will find documents and reports from organisation we work with. The SoHPS Managers and Leads Group is a space for Play Specialists who are in a Play Manager post or have leadership responsibilities in the absence of a

Innovative practice is not new to the health play specialist profession, creative thinking and problem solving are essential in supporting babies, children, young people and their families day-to-day in healthcare settings. However, there is limited opportunity to share and build

Writing Play Policy, Operating Procedures and Governance documents can be daunting and time consuming. These SoHPS approved document templates are available to download and adapt to meet the needs of your service and/or to upload to your organisations policy template.

The Play Well Toolkit is a quality checklist to Benchmark your service against 7 Quality Standards and assess your progress in meeting the recommended standards for health play services in England. Although not yet adopted by the devolved administrations in

The Workforce Development Strategy, published by Starlight, on behalf of SoHPS, Skills for Health and Starlight, was launched at the SoHPS conference in June 2024 Broad purposes: To provide a strategic framework for the health play professional sector to grow

The aim of SoHPS Workforce Development workstream is to support the development of the profession by: Engaging with external organisations Attending key meetings with national health and play strategic bodies Raising awareness of the profession and registration requirements by presenting