Major trauma rehabilitation coordinator

£47,810.00 to £54,710.00 per year, £47810.00 - £54710.00 a year

Contract Type:

Permanent

Hours:

Full time

Disability Confident:

No

Closing Date:

22/02/2026

Communication Establish effective multi-professional communication networks and strategies within the Major Trauma Centre and externally with multiagency across health, education, and social care.

Communicate with the trauma lead and lead clinicians to monitor patient progress, ensuring appropriately timed inter hospital transfers as necessary; and monitor length of stay with a view to minimising discharge delays.

Establish robust partnership working relationships in the community/community settings (primary care/schools, community services). Ensure that the Clinical Lead and Lead Nurse are kept informed of major trauma patient activity and potential problems that have been identified.

Establish excellent communication with wider interdisciplinary team in the Division and wider healthcare community to ensure that services are integrated.

Promote advocacy for children and their families; considering often complex family environments and coping mechanisms; acting on complex, sensitive information.

Overcoming barriers to understanding or resistance to compliance and optimizing participation in rehabilitation goal setting and care decisions.

Ensure effective and seamless communication throughout the patients journey including paediatric emergency department, wards, theatres, and critical care staff, to support the admission and planning of care.

Ensure child protection concerns and vulnerabilities within families is documented, communicated, and addressed cohesively.

Establish and maintain effective communication between all members of the interprofessional team.

Participate actively in Major Trauma related committee meetings.

Attend and contribute directly to the weekly individual specialty meetings, Trauma Hospital Overarching Trauma (HOT) meeting, Trauma Rehabilitation MDT/Ward round.

Represent AHCH Major Trauma Centre at local and national meetings.

Planning and Organising Oversee key worker duties to facilitate the patients progress on the pathway at all stages of the episodes of care.

Review the planning, workload allocation, delivery and evaluation of rehabilitation programmes for major trauma patients.

Deal promptly and effectively with staffing or other sensitive issues to ensure the smooth transition from one point to another on the trauma pathway.

Patient Care Oversee patients physical, cognitive, communication and psychosocial needs are fully addressed by a detailed inter-disciplinary team (IDT) assessment and regular review process.

Understand the full range of support available within the clinical team and how the use of therapies, psychology and education helps patients regain lost skills and reduce dependency in medical, nursing and therapy needs.

Appreciate the changing levels of medical and therapy care and support required by children and young people during the rehabilitation process and ensuring a coordinated and flexible needs-led approach between professional disciplines with regards to timing, intensity and duration of treatment.

Act as a source of expertise in specialist rehabilitation to IDTs in all settings and to other professionals from external agencies.

Facilitate the development of effective care pathways from admission to discharge to ensure the delivery of appropriate, patient focused, safe care.

Provide expertise, supervision and specialist support to others in the delivery of the major trauma pathway and in the management of complex, unpredictable and challenging caseloads.

Ensure all relevant parties in conjunction with the patient and parents/carers are involved at key-decision points during patients pathway.

Provide an environment that encourages client centred involvement where clients are facilitated to ask for help, advice and education.

Ensure all clinical practice is evidence based.

Policy/Service Development Contribute to and deliver changes in how trauma care and rehabilitation is delivered across speciality, professional discipline and network boundaries.

As the service develops, have Line Management responsibilities for the Major Trauma Co-ordinators.

Participate in the development of clinical governance systems and structures ensuring service is represented as appropriate.

Utilise relevant data to lead the development and implementation of policies and protocols and clinical practice guidelines and monitor adherence to them.

Contribute to the development of service development strategies, anticipating future needs, to ensure Alder Hey Major Trauma Centre meets its commitments on all service delivery and performance targets.

Challenge existing practices, ensuring that progressive solutions, which take into account models of best practice and best use of resources are incorporated into service plans.

Work with Community, Social Care and Academic partners to ensure that delivery plans support the wider healthcare agenda including…