Head of Communications and Engagement | Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 13 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £66,718 - £76,271 Including inner London HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 June 2024 |
| Location: | London, NW3 5BA |
| Company: | Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6287045/260-TP-661 |
Summary
We are a small, experienced and dynamic team working to destigmatise mental health and make the case for the value of relational and talking therapies. We are responsible for managing all aspects of the communications for the organisation, internal and external, across all channels.
We are a specialist mental health trust looking for a communications all-rounder to lead the communications team, supporting the strategic objectives of the organisation through a wide range communications and engagement activities.
The communications team is small with a high workload, and the job will require excellent planning and management skills, with the ability to pitch in where necessary to support the team in the creation of publications, podcasts and videos (using the Adobe Creative Suite), mass-mailings, creating social content, and writing high-quality copy for a range of audiences.
You will work closely with a number of external organisations and NHS bodies, liaising and providing expertise to people at all levels. You will routinely handle complex media enquiries from the national press that have the potential to be front-cover stories.
You will line-manage the Communications Managers in the team and be a source of expert support for them.You will coordinate the ownership of their portfolios, troubleshooting, ensuring appropriate professional development and reassigning areas as necessary.
· Being responsible for operational delivery of all communications and engagement work of the Trust
· Ensuring an effective strategic stakeholder engagement function to support the Trust’s strategic planning – maintaining constructive relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders, and participating in relevant meetings.
· Managing the communications budget.
· Developing strategies to establish goals and set standards to further the Trust's objectives.
· Being prepared for highly reactive work - the post-holder will need to re-prioritise on the fly and plan longer term strategic work around this fact, allowing for frequent requirement for concentration where the work pattern is unpredictable.
· Supporting and advising Director of Comms to work with the Board of Directors on internal and external communications matters
· Maintaining expert knowledge of current technological and best practice developments across the communications field, satisfying continuing professional development requirements.
· Measuring and evaluating the work of the Communications Team, providing reports summarising progress, confirming outcomes and identifying areas for further development
· Ensuring appropriate communications support is provided during crisis situations or major incidents.
***Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.***
Our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We are particularly keen to attract candidates from underrepresented backgrounds to better meet the needs of the service users and students that we serve.
The Trust
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and wellbeing organisation. Alongside a full range of child and adolescent mental health services and psychological therapies, we have a focus on training and education. We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. Our contribution is distinctive in the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people’s lives. We focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of mental wellbeing and the prevention and treatment of mental ill-health.
In 2024, our Trust is undertaking a merger to ensure our future sustainability, aiming to complete the merger by Summer 2025. We have identified potential merger partners, and across the rest of the year will be working with them to select a preferred partner then undertake the merger. This programme of work will require a great deal of communications and engagement support, internally and externally, and will be a major focus for the Head of Communications and Engagement.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
This advert closes on Sunday 26 May 2024