BAND 5
37.5 hrs per week, 12 month Fixed Term Contract
Funded by UCLH Charity Cancer Fund
Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Services/Play and Youth Services Team.
An exciting opportunity has arisen at UCLH for a Senior Youth Support Coordinator to join a highly respected Play and Youth services team!
To be successful in this role, you will have relevant qualifications and experience in either youth work, play specialism, teaching or relevant health or social care qualification and you will have extensive experience of working with young people.
We are looking for an exceptional individual who must enjoy working with TYA, be emotionally resilient, have compassion, sensitivity and a sense of humour to work within the busy young people’s cancer service. You will be supporting patients during their treatment and will be vital in reducing their hospital anxiety. You will be proactive in creating and maintaining an age-appropriate environment throughout the young people’s area and facilitate group activities and individual therapeutic sessions with patients.
As a YSC, you will be regularly supporting families under stress.
You will need to be able to engage easily with young people and be able to work effectively with your MDT colleagues to enhance the young person’s hospital experience.
You will work as part of a supportive team where play and recreation is valued and respected as an integrated part of young people’s treatment.
The post holder will be responsible for providing both individually tailored and group support. You will work in partnership with other YSC colleagues and contribute to a wide range of appropriate recreational activities. The YSC role involves enabling and encouraging patients to socialise and remain active as young people throughout their cancer journey, living with and beyond cancer.
The post holder will need to be able to work flexible hours including weekends and Bank Holidays.
The post holder will also need to have a diploma or equivalent in a relevant subject such as youth work, psychology, social sciences or play specialism.
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
- University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
- National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
- Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
- University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
- Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
- University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
- The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
- University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*
- UCLH top trust to work at in England - In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the third year in a row.
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