Senior communications and engagement officer | North London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 09 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,419 - £55,046 Per annum including HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 January 2026 |
| Location: | London, NW1 0PE |
| Company: | Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7629774/455-NLFT-0517 |
Summary
This is an interesting and worthwhile role, where you will work in a new and progressive NHS mental health trust in north London which puts safe, responsive and effective patient care at the heart of everything we do.
Just one year old, North London NHS Foundation Trust is on the cusp of opening a second MHCAS - mental health crisis assessment centre, or "A&E for mental health" - the first area of the country to have two.
We are committed to looking after patients close to home, either in the community or in our award-winning modern inpatient facilities.
And we believe in looking after our staff, with every support service focused on improving how we make the work of clinical staff easier, more effective, more rewarding, and with zero frustrations.
Youwillworkwith a team of committed and experienced communications and engagement colleagues, who jointly look after the full range of internal, external, corporate and digital communications.
We want to make communicating well - with our staff, our service users, our stakeholders, and our wider community - the simplest and easiest thing to do. And we want you to help us.
Can you help us?
You will have excellent writing skills, be skilled and experienced in using digital and social media, have the ability to manage a range of priorities, and be unfazed by working to tight or changing deadlines. You will need to be able to work with people at all levels, in a busy, pressured, diverse and completely awesome organisation, which is both respected and expected by a wide range of audiences to deliver on demanding expectations.
Main duties:
Play a full role in the communications and engagement activity of the Trust, producing high quality content, including written text, digital content, and audio-visual materials, demonstrating a strong commitment to accuracy, Plain English, audience engagement, and responsiveness.
Demonstrate a strong and effective commitment to forward planning, including full use of our bespoke Forward Planner, and identify opportunities and risks for activity to support delivery of Trust communication priorities and key messages, taking account of external and internal drivers and demands as appropriate.
Demonstrate a strong adherence to accessible communications formats and design, and work to best practice principles with regard to consistent brand voice and visual identity across all formats.
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
Why NLFT?
• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Play a full role in the communications and engagement activity of the Trust, producing high quality content, including written text, digital content, and audio-visual materials, demonstrating a strong commitment to accuracy, Plain English, audience engagement, and responsiveness.
Demonstrate a strong and effective commitment to forward planning, including full use of our bespoke Forward Planner, and identify opportunities and risks for activity to support delivery of Trust communication priorities and key messages, taking account of external and internal drivers and demands as appropriate.
Demonstrate a strong adherence to accessible communications formats and design, and work to best practice principles with regard to consistent brand voice and visual identity across all formats.
This is not an exhaustive list, Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
This advert closes on Monday 22 Dec 2025