Joe Fox
Position:
Play specialist, plastic reconstructive surgery ward
Employer:
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children
Monday
Meet with the nurse-in-charge and tidy up the playroom that seems to have been trashed over the weekend - not uncommon. Assess priority children and organise play activities for them.
I've worked at Great Ormond Street for 24 years and am currently on a busy surgical ward that treats children for cranio-facial, cleft lip and palette, ear reconstruction and birthmark conditions. The multi-disciplinary team includes specialist nurses, speech therapists, psychologists, social workers and teachers as well as consultants, doctors and nurses - and I am proud to work with them all. My role is to help children through a stay in hospital, offering them therapeutic play activities which can also prepare them psychologically for treatment.
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