Band 8a Head of Communication and Engagement

Job summary

The job will be based at the Bishop Wilson Clinic, Chelmsley Wood.

With the aim of reaching a million people with our life-changing education and training resources, Solihull Approach is looking for an exceptional communications and engagement professional to support us on our journey to realising this ambition.

This is an exciting and unique opportunity to join a dedicated team, which supports mental health and wellbeing in parents, children, schools, older adults and high stress workplaces through an evidence based model in trainings, online courses and resources -- across the UK and internationally.

You need to be an experienced communications and engagement professional, with specific skills in marketing and stakeholder management, as well as highly developed interpersonal qualities. We are looking for someone who is innovative and creative, and who isn't afraid of a challenge, and is passionate about what they do.

Sound like you? If so, we'd love to hear from you.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

Provide expert specialist, creative and innovative advice on external and internal communication engagement and marketing for the programme

Create deliver innovative communications, engagement and marketing plans. Support the delivery of the programme's objectives and generate income

Be the lead first point of contact for external and internal Trust communications engagement and public affairs enquiries

Promote the development of the programme create and maintain positive relationships with wide-ranging stakeholders

Design and deliver comprehensive evidence-based communications engagement and marketing plans

Identify pro-actively manage local, regional, national, international and internal stakeholders. Tailor activity to meet their needs. Resolve issues when they arises for different channels and target audiences. Ensure they are inclusive

Identify and produce high-quality content and effective social media campaigns for use across external and internal channels e.g media and social media Trust communications

Regularly evaluate activities to inform future planning

Understand and assess communications and engagement related risks mitigating against them and escalating accordingly

Support the design and delivery of events for stakeholders

Provide intelligence research analysis and advice on political issues relating to regional local regional and national issues. Prepare written responses to parliamentary and other enquiries

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

Job description

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Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to degree level.

Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through evidence of further personal/ academic development, experience, or training to Masters level or equivalent.

Relevant postgraduate qualification/ experience in communications and/or marketing.

Experience

Essential

Significant communications and engagement management experience within a complex organisation.

Developing evidence based researched and deliverable communication and engagement plans.

Ability to give advice at a range of organisational levels.

Tailoring communications messages to key audiences in all sections of the community, including the media, hostile and antagonistic audiences.

Experience of accurately mapping stakeholders, understanding their influence and interest to ensure targeted and inclusive communications and engagement.

Designing, organising and managing high profile events for staff and the public.

Experience of creating opportunities and working collaboratively with internal and external partners.

Experience of working in complex project situations.

Excellent awareness and knowledge of the political environment locally and nationally.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

For help with your application, contact: 

Hazel Douglas 

Hazel.Douglas@uhb.nhs.uk 

01212964448