Teenage Cancer Trust Youth Support Co-ordinator inLondon inLondon PUBLISHED WED 15 JAN 2025

We are looking for an exceptional individual who would like an opportunity of working as a Teenage Cancer Trust Youth Support Coordinator for Teenage and Young Adult (TYA) Cancer Services within a highly respected play and youth services team. You will need a relevant qualification in youth work, health play specialism, psychology, social work, or teaching as well as extensive, relevant experience of working with young people in a social/healthcare setting.

You will need to enjoy working with TYA, be emotionally resilient as well as have compassion, sensitivity, and a sense of humour. This post will work within the YP inpatient ward, supporting patients who are admitted to the ward and will be vital in reducing the anxiety surrounding hospital treatments. You will be proactive in creating and maintaining an age-appropriate environment throughout the YP’s area and facilitate group activities and individual therapeutic support sessions with patients.

Working alongside a supportive and diverse team of play and youth professionals who will support you in your role and a leadership team who will actively support your professional development, this post is responsible for providing individually tailored and group support to YP. Engaging easily with TYA and working effectively with your MDT colleagues to use therapeutic techniques creatively to enhance the TYA’s hospital experience. The post holder will have the responsibility to support and supervise junior members of staff and mentor students. This role will give the post holder the opportunity to develop leadership skills in organising staff rotas, assessing service needs and referrals.

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 Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital
• Eastman Dental Hospital
• Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
• University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
• The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
• University College Hospitals 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.

At UCLH, we have a real ‘One Team’ ethos, and our values – safety, kindness, teamwork and improving, are central to the way we work. This is supported by our staff, who voted us as the #1 NHS Acute Trust to work for in the whole of England.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Marlies Peters Job title: Deputy Play and Youth Services Manager Email address:

If this post sounds interesting and you would like further information or you would like to arrange an informal visit, please contact Irene O’Donnell, UCLH Play Services Manager or Marlies Peters, Deputy Play and Youth Services Manager on ex 74626 or