Community Engagement Assistant

Job summary

Working with the Regional Community Engagement team, youll assist with marketing events and community engagement activities to recruit new donors while acting as a key channel of communication between your team, external stakeholders other colleagues within your directorate. By helping them make our wider strategies a success, youll also be playing your part in helping thousands of patients live better, fuller lives. Youll be supporting donor recognition ceremonies, attending promotional events, processing sensitive information and supporting the evaluation of our community engagement activities. Building strong relationships with other departments and organisations will be crucial to your success. Youll have a proactive and confident communication style, excellent organisational skills and be focused on looking for opportunities to share our key messages with our key target audience.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will support the delivery of Community Engagement and Events activity. Your day to day responsibilities will include:- Attending blood donor sessions within a wide geographical region to engage with our donors and encourage them to join the NHS Stem Cell Donor Registry. Working autonomously out and about at our blood donation sessions and centres creating awareness and educating our blood donors about the NHS Stem Cell Donor Registry Occasionally attending donor recruitment events and supporting community engagement activity including performing finger blood type tests Supporting donor centre and mobile session marketing activities to support appointment fill Attending and supporting donor recognition events where donors are awarded for their long service Administrative duties such as updating the regional events toolkit with performance data Dealing with personal donor information and having sensitive conversations with potential new donors ensuring you maintain confidentiality and understanding You will be required to undertake travel and spend time away from base to meet the requirements of the post (with prior notice)

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need. Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever. You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.