Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Teenage Cancer Trust Teenage/Young Adult Youth Support Coordinator

Liverpool On-site 0-2 yrs exp Hospitals and Health Care 1,497 employees

Youth SupportActivity CoordinationPatient CarePeer SupportCase Management

Requirements

The candidate must be able to design and implement support programs and transition pathways for teenagers and young adults. Ability to involve patients in service evaluation and utilize communication technologies is required.

Job Description

To work as part of the Teenage and Young adult (TYA) cancer service to provide age appropriate activities and support to facilitate cognitive, social and emotional development of young people aged 13-24 years. The role will involve working in a range of paediatric, adult and TYA-specific clinical areas at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, and some non-hospital settings e.g. for peer support activities

Taking referrals from clinical staff and identifying appropriate individual, group and peer-support activities to meet the needs of young people.
Co-ordinating, and providing diversionary 1:1 and group activities in the hospital setting ensuring they are well-planned, appropriate and safe for all participants.
Taking the lead on design and organisation of agreed patient group activities outside the hospital setting, with input from paediatric and TYA team colleagues as appropriate to ensure they are well-planned, appropriate and safe for all participants
Contributing to the design and implementation of programmes to support transition, both in relation to age/development and stages of the cancer care pathway
Developing age-appropriate methods for involving teenagers and young adults in the evaluation and development of services, taking a key role in supporting their involvement.
Contributing to the development and use of communication technologies to meet the needs of teenagers and young adults with cancer.

This role may include working across hospitals sites within the NHS Trust and may require travel around the region at times.

Sponsorship - We are an approved sponsoring organisation. Applications will be considered from applicants requiring sponsorship alongside all other applications. Please be aware, not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible role and requirements on the government website.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Caroline Bains Job title: Lead Nurse for Cancer Services Email address: caroline.bains@alderhey.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01512525470

Skills

Youth SupportActivity CoordinationPatient CarePeer SupportCase ManagementService EvaluationCommunication TechnologyProgram DesignStakeholder Collaboration

About Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust is one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals, treating more than 450,000 children and young people every year. It is one of only four stand-alone paediatric trusts in the UK and is staffed by more than 4,000 employees. We offer 20 specialist services including being the designated national centre for head and face surgery and a Centre of Excellence for children with cancer, heart, spinal and brain disease. It is a teaching hospital and trains 550 medical and 400 nursing students each year. Alder Hey hosts the UK Medicines for Children Research Network (MCRN) with a Department of Health grant worth £22m and is also the lead centre for the Cheshire, Merseyside and North Wales MCRN. It leads the field in paediatric pharmacovigilance, being recently awarded the only paediatric NHS programme grant (£2m) for work in this area. In 2015 Alder Hey became Alder Hey in the Park. The new hospital is built in Springfield Park, next door to the old site. The new Alder Hey sits right in the heart of the park, surrounded by green space which can be seen from almost every window.