Teenage Cancer Trust Teenage/Young Adult Youth Support Coordinator
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 24/08/2026
- Closes
- 14/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role involves providing age-appropriate activities and support to young people aged 13-24 years within the Teenage and Young Adult (TYA) cancer service. The coordinator will facilitate cognitive, social, and emotional development through individual, group, and peer-support activities. Responsibilities include coordinating activities in hospital and non-hospital settings, contributing to transition programmes, and involving young people in service evaluation. The position is fixed-term for 5 months with potential for extension.
Essential criteria
- Diploma or equivalent in relevant subject such as youth work, psychology or social sciences
Desirable criteria
- Degree or Post-graduate qualifications in Youth Work or similar
- Training relevant to area of work eg Counselling, Teaching, Play specialism, Duke of Edinburgh Award leader, communication technology, youth participation
- Membership/registration with a youth worker group
- Minimum of 2 years' experience of working with young people within age range 13-25
- Proven ability in project work involving youth participation/engagement
- Experience of organising and running a range of youth-focussed activities including residential and non-residential group and peer support activities
- Experience of undertaking risk assessment and addressing risk/safeguarding issues for 1:1 and group activities with young people
- Budget management experience
- Experience of work with young people with cancer or chronic health conditions
- Experience of working with vulnerable children or adults
- Aptitudes and skills
- Excellent communication skills, engagement and cooperation/motivational techniques with young people from a rage of ages and backgrounds
- Ability to coordinate, organise and facilitate a programme of 1:1 and group activities that benefit young people
- Confident of own knowledge, aware of learning needs, seeks guidance as appropriate
- Awareness of child protection/safeguarding law and effective disclosure management
- Able to communicate effectively with a range of professionals
- Able to organise own workload
- IT skills (Word processing, email and internet)
- Negotiation skills
- Particular knowledge or skills that will contribute to post e.g. creative, music, physical activity, communication technology
- Positive and compassionate attitude, problem-solving approach
- Enthusiasm for role and potential for contribution of youth work to patient care
- Team player with good working relationships
- Appropriately assertive, able to listen to others views, supportive of others
- Flexible, adaptable, uses initiative, and able to explain own decisions
- Creative, imaginative, able to critically evaluate the effectiveness of role/activities and willing to adapt accordingly
- Special requirements
- Self motivated
- Able to lead evening activities/groups if required, by prior arrangement.
- Clear about personal accountability especially regarding non-hospital based working
- Emotionally resilient, clear personal and professional boundaries and risks in this role
- Qualifications and Training
- Diploma or equivalent in relevant subject such as youth work, psychology or social sciences
- Degree or Post-graduate qualifications in Youth Work or similar
- Training relevant to area of work eg Counselling, Teaching, Play specialism, Duke of Edinburgh Award leader, communication technology, youth participation
- Membership/registration with a youth worker group
- Minimum of 2 years' experience of working with young people within age range 13-25
- Proven ability in project work involving youth participation/engagement
- Experience of organising and running a range of youth-focussed activities including residential and non-residential group and peer support activities
- Experience of undertaking risk assessment and addressing risk/safeguarding issues for 1:1 and group activities with young people
- Budget management experience
- Experience of work with young people with cancer or chronic health conditions
- Experience of working with vulnerable children or adults
- Aptitudes and skills
- Excellent communication skills, engagement and cooperation/motivational techniques with young people from a rage of ages and backgrounds
- Ability to coordinate, organise and facilitate a programme of 1:1 and group activities that benefit young people
- Confident of own knowledge, aware of learning needs, seeks guidance as appropriate
- Awareness of child protection/safeguarding law and effective disclosure management
- Able to communicate effectively with a range of professionals
- Able to organise own workload
- IT skills (Word processing, email and internet)
- Ne
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Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
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Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Teenage Cancer Trust Teenage/Young Adult Youth Support Coordinator
The closing date is 14 September 2026
Job summary
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.
Fixed term: 5 months (until 31/3/2027) With the opportunity to extend beyond this date.
Main duties of the job
- 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 stag
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