Job vacancy: Arts Project Coordinator, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool

Job summary

Main area: Arts for Health
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract: Fixed term: 36 months (N/A)
Hours: Part time - 30 hours per week (Occasional evening work)
Job ref: 411-COR-25-7095119

Employer: Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Alder Hey
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 Pro Rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 28/04/2025 23:59

Arts Project Coordinator

NHS AfC: Band 5

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.

We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.

As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.

You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:

Great flexible working opportunities
Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
Generous annual leave and pension scheme
Extensive staff health and well-being programmes

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To support the visiting freelance artist/musician team at Alder Hey through coordinating activities.

To develop relationships with regional and national arts/cultural/educational organisations through partnership programmes with Alder Hey.

To support the Arts for Health Manager with major arts programmes underway in the Trust.
To manage some small scale projects as part of the overall arts for health programme.
To support environmental arts projects for the Alder Hey campus.

To support the Arts for Health Manager with arts interventions for individual patients through the Arts for Health social prescribing programme.
To collect qualitative evaluation data for individual projects from patients, staff and artists for presentations and analyse data for reports.

To collect and maintain specific project data such as patient numbers for monthly Key Performance Indicators and evaluation reports.
Oversee and support arts events throughout the hospital

Person specification

Education and Training

Essential criteria

Degree on arts, arts administration, health or related subject

Desirable criteria

• Further qualification in arts, arts management, health or social care.

Skills

Essential criteria

• Clear communicator with excellent writing and verbal presentation skills
• In-depth knowledge of administrative procedures, project management or information analysis
• Proven relationship management skills, able to build and maintain positive and productive relationships across a range of stakeholders
• Good numeracy for maintaining project budgets and evaluation data.
• Experience in the use of the Microsoft TM Office toolset email, web browsers and project management tools.

Experience

Essential criteria

• A minimum of 3 years’ work experience post degree.
• Proven experience of arts project management.
• Experience of working with artists in a range of disciplines to deliver projects
• Experience of working with children and young people.
• Experience of working with arts/cultural/educational organisations.
• Experience of evaluating arts projects
• Effective time management skills and the ability to prioritise own workload
• Experience of project change and delivery
• Ability to provide and receive complex information; persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training skills are required
• Experience of supporting projects and their supporting documentation such as risk and issue logs, lessons learnt and communication plans
• Experience of effectively communicating with a range of stakeholders using a variety of methods

Desirable criteria

• Experience of delivering participatory projects within healthcare environments.
• Awareness of NHS Safeguarding and Infection Control principles
• Experience of supporting environmental arts projects for healthcare environments.

Personal Attributes

Essential criteria

• A passion for contemporary arts and culture
• Professional, calm and efficient manner
• Reliable, adaptable and dependable
• Team focused

We reserve the right to close vacancies without notice when we have received a sufficient number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply regularly as we will contact you using this regarding your application. All candidates will be notified via email whether or not they have been shortlisted.

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are committed to creating a well-managed, flexible working environment that supports staff and promotes their welfare and development. We actively promote equality and diversity and operate a Zero Tolerance policy to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment.

Should you require any assistance during the application stages please contact recruiting manager of vacancy or the recruitment team at [email protected] or call 0151 282 4599

Please declare within the supporting information if artificial intelligence (AI) has been used in your application.

Please note, the selection processes at Alder Hey Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right skills and values, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain vigilant against candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills.

Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Silver

Mindful employer. Being positive about mental health.

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Vicky Charnock
Job title: Arts for Health Manager
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 0151 228 4811
Additional information: Please contact via email only

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