MRI Communications and Engagement Officer
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Working collaboratively with the workforce team and Manchester Royal Infirmary (MRI) leaders you will design and develop innovative communication and engagement activities for the MRI Clinical Group. Do you have excellent organisation and communication skills? Are you highly organised with an eye for detail? Can you show creativity when developing forward‑thinking communication plans? If the answer is yes, then this is an exciting opportunity for you, and we would love to hear from you.
Experience of social media management tools and writing content for different audiences is essential to help you hit the ground running. Join our team and you will soon make a difference to the delivery of all our staff engagement and communication plans. If you are interested in the post but feel you don’t have all the experience we need, please do get in touch for a chat as we are happy to discuss development opportunities too.
Role
This is an exciting opportunity to join as our Communications and Engagement Officer with responsibility for leading the creation and maintenance of a strong stakeholder engagement network across our Clinical Group and wider Trust, producing high quality and eye‑catching materials and literature for our internal communications in digital, print, audio, and video formats. Your role will include:
* Developing and distributing engaging and timely internal communications
* Creating and managing innovative communication and internal PR campaigns
* Keeping our intranet site, SharePoint site, website, and social media accounts up to date with exciting and engaging content
* Coordinating regular staff engagement events both online and face‑to‑face
* Promoting our regular staff surveys and reviewing findings for action
* Supporting our staff recognition activities
* Support positive patient stories for external audiences
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust in England with a turnover of over £3bn and is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year. Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary. We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022. We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high‑quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable. At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
For further details/informal visits contact:
Name: Kinga Darlington
Job title: HR Business Partner
Email address: Kinga.Darlington@mft.nhs.uk
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