Major trauma rehabilitation coordinator

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The closing date is 06 February 2026

Alder Hey Children's Hospital (AHCH) is a designated Major Trauma Centre for the North West Region in partnership with The Royal Manchester Children's Hospital. Children and young people who sustain major trauma injuries require highly skilled and co‑ordinated care from the scene of the accident through to acute care, expert acute rehabilitation and ongoing holistic community rehabilitation. The post holder will be responsible for providing senior professional, operational, and clinical leadership.

They will support and co‑ordinate the major trauma patient pathway and the role will be integral to the ongoing clinical governance of the major trauma service, contributing to the daily updating of the trauma registry; acting as a key member of the Senior Team leading the process.

The post holder will represent the AHCH Major Trauma Service locally and nationally. They will be responsible for ensuring that the Major Trauma Key Indicators are achieved and implementing pathways and procedures to improve the pathway and experiences for children and their families.

Communication

Planning and Organising

Patient Care
Policy/Service Development

Financial and Physical

Human Resources

Research and Development

Our values:

We pride ourselves on the quality of our care, going the extra mile to make Alder Hey a safe and special place for children and their families.

We are committed to continually improving for the benefit of our patients.

We are open and honest and engage everyone we meet with a smile.

We show that we value every individual for who they are and their contribution.

We work across the Alder Hey community in teams that are built on friendship, dedication, care and reassurance.

Communication

Establish effective multi‑professional communication networks and strategies within the Major Trauma Centre and externally with multi‑agency 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.

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

Overcome barriers to understanding or resistance to compliance and optimising participation in rehabilitation goal setting and care decisions.

Ensure effective and seamless communication throughout the patient’s 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 inter‑professional 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 patient’s 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.

Oversee patients’ physical, cognitive, communication and psychosocial needs are fully addressed by a detailed inter‑disciplinary team (IDT) assessment and regular review…