Corporate Affairs and Membership Officer | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 01 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £25,147 - £27,596 Per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 May 2024 |
| Location: | Winwick, Warrington, WA2 8WA |
| Company: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6279253/350-TWS6172561-A |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Corporate Affairs and Membership Officer to join our Corporate Affairs Team.
The successful candidatewill assist the Corporate Affairs Manager in the design and coordination of all external communications to the Trust Membership including the facilitation of Council of Governors elections annually.
The post holder will support the communications to the Council of Governors, including organising and coordinating training and meetings as required and supporting the administrative arrangements for the Council of Governors' Membership and Engagement Group and Council of Governors meetings as required.
The successful candidate will maintain the declarations of interest web pages; inputting into the design and updating changes when required.
As well as providing advice on declarations and conflicts of interest and the use of the systems, in addition to production of guides for staff which are cascaded Trust wide.
The post holder will have excellent organisational skills and a friendly manner, they will ensure the provision of a comprehensive, confidential, accurate and timely administrative service to managers and team members.
The post holder will assist the Corporate Affairs Manager in the design and coordination of all external communications to the Trust Membership. To assist the Corporate Affairs Manager in the coordination of all internal communications to staff in relation to Trust Membership, liaising closely with the Trust’s Communications Team and with external media organisations whenever appropriate.
To support communications to the Council of Governors, including organising and coordinating training and meetings as required and supporting the administrative arrangements for the Council of Governors
Membership and Engagement Group and Council of Governors meetings as required including collating and circulating papers under the guidance of the Corporate Affairs Manager.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Maintain the membership web pages (following relevant training); including the design, coordination and inputting of material, and updating changes when required.
Lead on the uploading of sensitive staff data to the membership database in line with GDPR guidance. Analysing this information along with public, service user and carer data to determine the representativeness of our constituencies and reporting on the findings to the Board of Directors via the Council of Governors to drive decisions regarding targeted recruitment.
Build on and manage of the Trust’s membership database.
Use the information held on the membership database to circulate details of involvement events in accordance with special interests identified.
Adhere to a Standard Operating Procedure when creating membership emails and provide guidance and training to other members of the team on its use.
Liaise with the communications department to ensure that all appropriate forms of social media are utilised in order to maintain, develop and extend membership and promote people participation.
Deputise for the Corporate Affairs Manager when required.
Please refer to the attached Job Descriptions for a full list of duties and responsibilities.
Interviews will take place 28th May 2024
This advert closes on Wednesday 15 May 2024