Role Summary
Working collaboratively with the workforce team and Manchester Royal Infirmary (MRI) leaders you will design and develop innovative and exciting communication and engagement activities for the MRI Clinical Group. 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.
Key Responsibilities
* 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 and 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
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you'll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the 'Supporting Documents' heading.
So that you're even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you'll need to take time to read the 'Candidate Essentials Guide' that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how 'we care for you as you care for others'. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you'll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at careers@mft.nhs.uk.
Why Apply?
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.
About MFT
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts 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 & drive 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.
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