Chinwag Spring 2019

Staff news

Teenage & young adult team showcase work in Sydney In December 2018 four members of the teenage and young adult oncology team secured funding from the Teenage Cancer Trust Stephen Sutton Congress Grant and The Christie to attend the Global Adolescents and Young Adults Cancer Congress in Sydney, Australia to showcase innovative work at The Christie.

Charlene Jones, Teenage Cancer Trust community liaison network nurse, presented her work on the establishment of an outreach service which has provided support to hundreds of teenage and young adults who are treated outside of The Christie at local hospitals. Kate Law, community liaison nurse team leader, gave an emotional presentation on her Masters

innovative project ‘Remembering Friends’, developing a bereavement service for teenage and young adults who lose a friend to cancer during their own treatment. It was acknowledged during the conference that this is

not being addressed in any other units across the world. Lorraine and Anna also presented key findings from their body image support group which has been running for seven years to address body image issues for teenage and young adults, helping young patients feel less alone about body image changes and helping them to feel more confident about their appearance.

research ‘Examining the support needs of bereaved parents following the death of a young person from cancer’. Occupational therapist Anna Mackland and Christie youth support coordinator Lorraine Wright presented their

Kate Law

Charlene Jones

Anna Mackland and Lorraine Wright

GTA England Apprentice of the year: finalist Radiotherapy technical services apprentice, George Stewart, was recently shortlisted to attend the GTA England Apprentice awards at the Manufacturing Technology Centre in Coventry. George was one of 10 finalists in the highly competitive and largest sector; Engineering & Construction. received and showcased himself, The Christie and his training organisation SETA in a very professional manner. We are very proud to have such a valuable member of our team recognised in such a prestigious national awards and wish every success to George in the next stages of his career.

There were a total of 18 finalists, shortlisted across the three categories, from a network of approximately 12.5k apprentices and 24k employers, including household names such as Rolls Royce and Siemens. The apprentice’s applications were judged based on commitment, contribution and success by an independent panel of GTA England board members. The applicants also submitted short videos which were played to the audience. George’s video was excellently

Well done George: George is pictured with his fellow finalists second from the left.

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