Job summary
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
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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.
About us
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 ourInnovation 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.
Job description
Job 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
Job description
Job 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
- Degree on arts, arts administration, health or related subject
Desirable
- oFurther qualification in arts, arts management, health or social care.
Skills
Essential
- oClear communicator with excellent writing and verbal presentation skills
- oIn-depth knowledge of administrative procedures, project management or information analysis
- oProven relationship management skills, able to build and maintain positive and productive relationships across a range of stakeholders
- oGood numeracy for maintaining project budgets and evaluation data.
- oExperience in the use of the Microsoft TM Office toolset email, web browsers and project management tools.
Experience
Essential
- oA minimum of 3 years' work experience post degree.
- oProven experience of arts project management.
- oExperience of working with artists in a range of disciplines to deliver projects
- oExperience of working with children and young people.
- oExperience of working with arts/cultural/educational organisations.
- oExperience of evaluating arts projects
- oEffective time management skills and the ability to prioritise own workload
- oExperience of project change and delivery
- oAbility to provide and receive complex information; persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training skills are required
- oExperience of supporting projects and their supporting documentation such as risk and issue logs, lessons learnt and communication plans
- oExperience of effectively communicating with a range of stakeholders using a variety of methods
Desirable
- oExperience of delivering participatory projects within healthcare environments.
- oAwareness of NHS Safeguarding and Infection Control principles
- oExperience of supporting environmental arts projects for healthcare environments.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- oA passion for contemporary arts and culture
- oProfessional, calm and efficient manner
- oReliable, adaptable and dependable
- oTeam focused
Person Specification
Education and Training
Essential
- Degree on arts, arts administration, health or related subject
Desirable
- oFurther qualification in arts, arts management, health or social care.
Skills
Essential
- oClear communicator with excellent writing and verbal presentation skills
- oIn-depth knowledge of administrative procedures, project management or information analysis
- oProven relationship management skills, able to build and maintain positive and productive relationships across a range of stakeholders
- oGood numeracy for maintaining project budgets and evaluation data.
- oExperience in the use of the Microsoft TM Office toolset email, web browsers and project management tools.
Experience
Essential
- oA minimum of 3 years' work experience post degree.
- oProven experience of arts project management.
- oExperience of working with artists in a range of disciplines to deliver projects
- oExperience of working with children and young people.
- oExperience of working with arts/cultural/educational organisations.
- oExperience of evaluating arts projects
- oEffective time management skills and the ability to prioritise own workload
- oExperience of project change and delivery
- oAbility to provide and receive complex information; persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training skills are required
- oExperience of supporting projects and their supporting documentation such as risk and issue logs, lessons learnt and communication plans
- oExperience of effectively communicating with a range of stakeholders using a variety of methods
Desirable
- oExperience of delivering participatory projects within healthcare environments.
- oAwareness of NHS Safeguarding and Infection Control principles
- oExperience of supporting environmental arts projects for healthcare environments.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- oA passion for contemporary arts and culture
- oProfessional, calm and efficient manner
- oReliable, adaptable and dependable
- oTeam focused
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
