SCHN - Trapeze Transition Co-ordinator Senior Allied Health Professional - REQ589170

Trapeze is the adolescent transition service that works in close collaboration with the Department of Adolescent Medicine across The Sydney Children's Hospitals Network (SCHN). Its core work is to support transition for young people aged 14-25 years with chronic conditions and their families/carers, utilising a developmental approach to independence and self-care, preparing for transfer to adult services, linking to primary and community care and addressing their psychosocial health.

Many challenges are faced by young people with chronic conditions as they move from child-centred care to adult orientated health services. At this point they assume responsibility for their own care and in some cases there is fragmentation in their treatment, which reduces health outcomes for the young person.

The aim of Trapeze is to engage young people with chronic conditions in adult health services, enhance the quality of their life and reduce unplanned avoidable hospitalisations. The service provides support to young people as they transition, adopting an integrated coordinated care approach as the Model of Care, and thereby promoting better continuity of care as well as appropriate follow up support within the adult health service framework. The program also aims to reduce the progression and complication of significant chronic conditions in young people at a time of unstable physical, emotional and psychological development.

Trapeze is a multidisciplinary team located at The Children's Hospital at Westmead and Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick, comprising social workers, an adolescent physician, an occupational therapist, clinical nurse specialists, an administration officer and a manager. 

• The primary purpose of this position is to provide psychosocial and care coordination interventions to improve the transition process for these young people and their families. This will include comprehensive transition assessment, individual and family support, collaboration with multidisciplinary Trapeze team, other hospital subspecialty teams and external stakeholders. 
• The Senior Allied Health Professional will support young people with high risk clinical conditions to optimise health outcomes by developing their capacity for self-management as developmentally appropriate. 
• Trapeze is a Network Service, however, this position will initially be based mainly at The Children's Hospital at Westmead. There is potential for the role to work across both the Children's Hospital at Westmead and the Sydney Children's Hospital at Randwick. 

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