** About Us **
Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust is one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals providing care for over 200,000 children and young people each year. It is one of only four stand-alone paediatric trusts in UK and is staffed by 2,800 employees.
Alder Hey offers 20 specialist services including being the designated national centre for head and face surgery and a Centre of Excellence for children with cancer, heart, spinal and brain disease. It is a teaching hospital and trains 550 medical and 400 nursing students each year.
Alder Hey serves a catchment area of 7.5million, with around 60,000 children seen at A&E each year. In addition to the hospital site at West Derby Alder Hey has a presence at more than 40 community outreach sites and programmes and its consultants hold 800 clinic sessions each year from Cumbria to Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man, helping deliver care closer to home.
** Vision and values **
Delivering clinical excellence in all of our services
Ensuring all of our patients and their families have a positive experience whilst in our care
Be the provider of 1st Choice for children, young people and their families
Be a world class centre for children’s Research and Development
Further improve our financial strength in order to continuously invest in services and provide funding for a new hospital
Ensure our staff have the right skills, competence, motivation and leadership to deliver our Vision.
To provide a world-class facility for our work to be made available to children locally, nationally and internationally by delivering our hospital in the park vision.
