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
Employer heading

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
Job overview
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.
Main duties of the job
To
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, arranging meetings.
Working for our organisation
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.
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
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
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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