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Joint Data Communications and Engagement Lead
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Main area Digital Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract Fixed term: 2 years (2-year FTC) Hours
* Full time
* Flexible working
* Home or remote working
* Compressed hours
37.5 hours per week Job ref 321-CORP-6853891-B8a-PUB
Site Big Data Institute Town Oxford Salary £53,755 - £60,504 Per Annum, Pro Rata Salary period Yearly Closing 15/01/2025 23:59
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
Job overview
We are seeking an experienced individual with talent, expertise, and ambition in communications and stakeholder engagement. The post offers the opportunity to work proactively on innovative solutions that will transform health and care research and delivery across the NHS.
The successful candidate will work as part of the Thames Valley and Surrey (TVS) Secure Data Environment (SDE) Programme and the TVS Care Records Partnership Programme, and be hosted by the R&D Clinical Informatics Team within OUH. They will be accountable to the Programme Director/SRO respectively and have day-to-day accountability to the programmes’ Coproduction Lead.
They will manage communication and engagement for data programmes across care records and research in the Thames Valley and Surrey, and feed into related national work. The programmes will support the successful candidate through regular joint meetings to manage a collaborative approach to communication and engagement across TVS.
The joint data communication and engagement lead will have significant impact on the success of these data programmes. Working with colleagues across the health and care system, subject matter experts, research and industry they will have the satisfaction of seeing their work lead to progress in the way patient data is used in the NHS: improving patient care and supporting understanding population health and cutting-edge research.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will lead on the continued development, delivery and implementation of our communication and engagement strategies. This will involve working closely with colleagues across the region, and nationally, to scope, prioritise, and deliver. The successful candidate will be highly skilled in working with diverse stakeholders, alongside interdisciplinary and cross-sector teams. They will be responsible for both internal and external communications, stakeholder management, media management, PR and liaison with key stakeholders.
The ecosystem they will work within is complex, spanning many organisations and sectors. Managing this complexity will be both a challenge and rewarding component of the post.
Person specification
Education
* Educated to Masters level (or equivalent qualification / experience)
* Master’s degree or equivalent level experience in communications, including stakeholder and public engagement
* Extensive, relevant professional experience may be considered against the requirement for a degree in relevant discipline (the expectation of professional, technical competence is at least that associated with a degree level education in this subject)
Experience
* Excellent understanding and experience of the health research and clinical informatics landscape
* Demonstrable experience of working in a technical environment, ideally within a clinical or healthcare setting
* Knowledge of relevant national legislation and local guidance and how these should be applied to stakeholder and public engagement activities
* Specialist knowledge across a range of stakeholder engagement practices, techniques and approaches underpinned by theoretical knowledge from study and relevant practical experience
* Knowledge of NHS datasets and standards
* Understanding of infrastructure, software and data lifecycles with specialist knowledge acquired through relevant qualifications including waterfall and agile project methodologies
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