Senior Communications Lead - Transformation | East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 07 April 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £66,582 - £77,368 per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 07 May 2026 |
| Location: | Stevenage, SG1 4AB |
| Company: | East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7823317/361-7823317 |
Summary
We are recruiting for a Senior Communications Lead - Transformation who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
The Senior Communications Lead will be responsible for designing, delivering and evaluating the communications strategy for the trust’s 2026/27 Transformation Programme, Better care, better value, which aims to drive large-scale operational and clinical change, deliver recurrent savings and maintain organisational stability during a period of significant financial and cultural challenge.
At the heart of everything we do are our core Values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Working as a senior member of the communications team with a dedicated role within the transformation team, the postholder will lead trust-wide transformation communications and engagement activity across clinical, operational, corporate and external audiences. They will ensure messaging supports behavioural change, builds understanding of the case for change, and sustains staff and stakeholder confidence.
The role will translate complex operational, clinical and financial change into compelling, accessible and motivating narratives. It will also ensure the executive team, senior leaders, and line managers are equipped to communicate consistently, confidently and effectively throughout the transformation journey.
The postholder will lead the structured communications approach, ensuring delivery against milestones, strong frontline engagement, robust evaluation and continuous improvement of activity.
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
This advert closes on Tuesday 21 Apr 2026