Head of Communications and Engagement
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Job summary
The Head of Communications and Engagement is a senior member of the Communications and Engagement team. The role has responsibility for internal, external, stakeholder and digital communications and engagement activity. The post holder will work with the Director of Communications, Engagement and Fundraising on planning, identifying and delivering strategic and tactical communications activity across all channels to support the aims and objectives of the Trust.
This will include activity aimed at driving the Trust's relationships with employees, patients, regulators, and commissioners as well as local and national stakeholders, the media, opinion-formers and the general public. The post holder will also play a key role in overseeing the delivery of a fresh approach to engaging with our local communities.
Main duties of the job
Working closely with Trust leadership and senior management, the post holder will provide advice on communications and engagement activity to promote our values and services in line with an agreed communications and engagement strategy. They will also ensure our key messages are clearly articulated and provide advice to ensure the good reputation of the trust is reflected internally and externally as well as ensuring balance in any negative coverage or comment of the trust. This will mean providing advice and guidance to senior personnel on frequently complex and often delicate, high-profile or contentious issues.
The successful candidate will help to enable and hold sustainable and meaningful dialogue with diverse communities and citizens ensuring the Trust's strategy both reflects the aspirations and needs of all those it serves and who work for it and that engagement is visible and effective.
The role will also involve providing a professional media relations and issues management service on both a proactive and reactive basis. The post holder will seek opportunities to promote and enhance the Trust's reputation with all audiences. This will involve consistency of message and supporting the Director of Communications, Engagement and Fundraising in close liaison with key stakeholders in the local health and care system.
About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
For more information, please access the following link: https://www.whittington.nhs.uk/
Details
Date posted
05 February 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8b
Salary
£66,718 to £76,271 a year per annum inclusive of HCAs pro-rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
220-WHT-1922
Job locations
Whittington Hospital
Magdala Avenue
London
N19 5NF
Employer details
Employer name
Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
Address
Whittington Hospital
Magdala Avenue
London
N19 5NF
Employer's website
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