Location: Across sites, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust (frequency of visits to each site, to be agreed locally)
Not much happens across our Trusts without the support of the Communications and Engagement team. We ensure our patients, colleagues and stakeholders understand the services offered by the Trust, understand our vision, values and aims, are able to influence services and are well-informed and engaged in the work of the Trust.
We are a newly formed communications and engagement team and we're looking for a dynamic and creative Communications Officer to join us. You will lead on several organisational wide communications and engagement programmes of activity, projects and priorities, spanning internal and external communications.
As an excellent communicator, you will be expected to use your excellent copywriting skills, manage social media activity, website and intranet work and organise a series of events to support our organisational strategies.
Your outstanding people skills mean that you will be able to play a key role in establishing positive working relationships quickly at all levels of the organisation. You will easily be able to manage a busy workload, responding to conflicting priorities as required.
If you are a passionate and ambitious communicator and this sounds like the next role for you, then we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
* You will be a key part of our day to day communications and engagement activities covering both internal and external communications.
* Your role will focus on supporting our media and stakeholder relations including our pro-active media planning and stakeholder mapping.
* The work will involve regular contact and engagement with members of the public, patients and their relatives to gather information and stories to promote the Trust and the services provided.
* You will be part of our events management team assisting to organise staff and public engagement events.
* You will also be supporting PHU to fulfil its legal duties around patient and public involvement, ensuring partners, public and staff are actively engaged and able to influence decisions in a way that contributes to improved health services.
* Due to the nature of communications work, some out-of-hours working, including evenings and weekends will be expected as and when necessary.
About us
Our vision for Single Corporate Services: Isle of Wight NHS Trust (IWT) and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust (PHU) have a shared vision of a single corporate service across our two organisations, supported by a single set of identical systems and processes, under joint leadership, to drive significant efficiencies, improve employee experience, and return time to patient care.
This vacancy is part of the Single Corporate Services Division.
Job responsibilities
Why are we changing the way we deliver Corporate Services? Working as a partnership, both IWT and PHU have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this. The creation of a single corporate service is essential for us to support our clinical and operational services, and our wider transformation programme.
The vision for our single corporate services is to:
* Be an employer of choice for corporate talent, attracting and retaining people who share our values for excellence in care and welcome the opportunity to benefit from the broad range of flexible career and development opportunities we can offer.
* Improve efficiency through simplified and standardised policies, processes, and systems, drawing on the best from both Trusts.
* Do things once and reduce any duplication on transactional tasks giving corporate staff the ability to focus on higher value and more diverse activities.
* Co-invest in the latest digital solutions and standardise our approach, meaning we do things once for both organisations.
* Improve learning and development opportunities and sharing best practice, upskilling both Trusts.
* Co-locate teams in purpose-built facilities on the Island and in Portsmouth to enable closer working and sharing.
* Build resilience for individuals and our teams.
The single corporate service is delivered across both organisations. You may be based at either IWT or PHU and individuals may be required to undertake business travel between sites. For leaders managing staff across multi-site locations, you will need to be visible and provide in-person leadership. The arrangements and frequency will be agreed locally.
For further details, please see enclosed Job Description.
Please note your application may be transferred to the Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust Applicant Tracking System (ATS) if you are selected for an interview.
Also, this position has also been advertised on the Portsmouth Hospitals University Trust's jobs page. If you are interested in this position and wish to apply, there is no requirement for you to submit two separate applications.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Skills & Knowledge
* Ability to write intelligibly, interestingly, concisely and with flair and creativity.
* Demonstrable experience in general website updating and maintenance.
* Excellent attention to detail and written and verbal communication skills.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£29,970 to £36,483 a year pro rata, per annum
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