Young Adults Service

We provide specialist care for young adults, aged 18-25, living with progressive, life-limiting conditions.

Our care is designed to promote independence in a safe and supported environment.

We offer 24/7 medically supported Residential Short Breaks at our Children and Young Adults Service, based at St Oswald’s Hospice in Gosforth, and through our Outreach Service.

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Supporting the transition from childhood to adulthood

  • Our care helps build life skills, independence and confidence.
  • A purpose-built Young Adults Lounge provides a dedicated grown-up space with media centre and selection of gaming consoles.
  • We work with young adults and their families to ensure our holistic care is individualised and appropriate to a young person’s ability, need and interests.
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Activities for young adults

  • Our accompanied trips reflect what young adults enjoy, such as visits to the cinema, shops, restaurants, local festivals, cafés or the pub.
  • Young adults can also take part in Accessible Surfing and WetWheels Trips.
  • We love a social event and will celebrate birthdays, multi-cultural festivals and national days.
  • We also know that, sometimes, young adults just want some chill time – and that’s fine with us too!
  • We take regular Young Adults trips to Bendrigg Trust, the residential activity centre for disabled people.
PHOTO Building work has now been completed on the brand-new £1.3m state-of-the-art Young Adults Accommodation at St Oswald’s Hos (1)

Young Adults Accommodation – coming soon!

We’re delighted to share that the building work for our Young Adults Accommodation is officially complete.

We’re now moving into the next phase of the project, getting everything fitted out and ready to welcome our first residents.

Find out more

End of life care

Our highly trained care team provide dignified and compassionate care to any young adult who is at the end of life.

We also support families and loved ones, with family accommodation and food and drink available in our Children and Young Adults Service.

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Post death care

Our Garden Room, featuring a cold bed, separate meeting room and private outdoor area, can be used when a young adult has died.

We can also provide Bereavement Support for children and adults. Your care team will discuss this with you at an appropriate time.

Read Ollie’s story

Kieran Trippier vs Dylan Marshall

See what happened when the NUFC and England player popped in for the ultimate FIFA competition with one of our young adults.

 

Frequently asked questions (FAQs)

At the moment, we can only offer our services to young adults aged 18 – 25.

Yes. Young adults have access to indoor and outdoor facilities in our unit.

They also have access to their own Young Adults Lounge with kitchen and media centre with large screen television and gaming consoles.

We are hoping to welcome young adults to the accommodation this year and will update you as soon as we can.

Yes. We complete risk assessments for all our activities.

Yes. A member of our care team will attend all trips out of the hospice.

If possible, we will invite friends to join young adults on trips out.

We aim to take a residential young adults trip with Bendrigg in Cumbria once a year. For information on Bendrigg Trust, visit their website.

A young adult must be referred by a GP, Social Worker, Community Nurse or Pathway Coordinator.

To make a referral, health and social care professionals should fill out and submit the referral form below. They will also need to supply the following to childya@stoswaldsuk.org

  • Health Assessment
  • Social Assessment

An assessment and referral pathway has been agreed with health and social care colleagues in each area. We also worked closely with colleagues at the Great North Children’s Hospital and Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Trust.

Referral forms are monitored during office hours. For out of hours/emergency referrals, please call 0191 246 9060 and ask to speak to the Care Coordinator on shift.

For end of life referrals, please contact us on 0191 246 9060

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We'd love your feedback

At St Oswald’s Hospice we welcome all feedback to help us improve our Children and Young Adults Service.

You can share your feedback in two ways:

• Feedback directly to St Oswald’s Hospice
• Feedback directly to the Care Quality Commission (CQC)

If you have something to share, please let us know below.

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