An exciting opportunity has arisen to join one of the leading paediatric arts for health programmes in the country. As Arts Project Coordinator, you will primarily support the Arts for Health Manager in delivering a range of arts and culture based participatory and environmental projects at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. You will supervise a range of freelance arts professionals, liaise with hospital staff on the implementation of projects and work with our cultural partners in the North West region and beyond.
The ideal candidate will have an arts, art administration, health degree or equivalent, experience of working with children and young people, preferably in a healthcare setting and a minimum of 3 years’ work experience post degree. A proven record of participation event / project / workshop management, delivery, and evaluation is also essential.
The arts for health programme recently won a Liverpool City Region Culture and Creativity Award in Health and Wellbeing.
To provide creative and administrative support to enable the successful delivery of defined participatory and environmental projects within a range of Arts for Health Programmes underway in the Trust. You will be responsible for managing small scale projects, providing support to artists, patients and healthcare staff, liaising with cultural and educational partners, maintaining project documents, supporting evaluation of projects, assisting in project planning, and arranging meetings.
As one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions. In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state of the art facility.
Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children’s medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world’s leaders in children’s healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of children’s specialists. Alongside this is our Innovation Hub, a dedicated space where clinicians and industries can come together to create new products and technologies.
We know that a children’s hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learn and grow. At Alder Hey we are here to look after a child and their family and that includes mums, dads, brothers and sisters.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Vicky Charnock Job title: Arts for Health Manager Email address: vicky.charnock@alderhey.nhs.uk Telephone number: 0151 228 4811
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