Job summary
We are looking for an experienced, exceptional and dedicated communications professional to join our friendly and supportive team, to provide communications and engagement support for corporate projects across the organisation. You will be involved in delivering a wide range of exciting communications and engagement projects, with the aim of improving the experiences of our patients and colleagues.
Main duties of the job
The communications project manager will lead on the communications and engagement requirements for all relevant corporate portfolios of work. They will be required to use specialist knowledge to advise colleagues on communications and engagement best practice, ensuring that effective processes are planned and implemented for all projects.
The role will involve creating, implementing and evaluating communication and engagement plans and interventions, that are designed to provide high-quality and consistent communications and engagement outputs, encourage key enabling relationships with stakeholders, remove barriers and ultimately enhance the reputation of the organisation.
The successful candidate must have excellent communication and organisational skills, the ability to prioritise and meet deadlines, be comfortable to work under pressure, have excellent judgement skills, be able to build strong and mutually beneficial relationships, have high levels of professional curiosity, be an effective decision maker, and have the ability to work independently and as part of a team.
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.
Job description
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*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level.
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma, or equivalent experience, or training.
Experience
Essential
- Communications and engagement experience, within a complex organisation.
- Developing evidence based researched and deliverable communication and engagement strategies, plans and approaches.
- Tailoring communications messages to key audiences in all sections of the community, including the media, hostile and antagonistic audiences.
- Designing, organising and managing high profile events for staff and the public.
- Ability to give expert advice at a range of organisational levels.
- Experience of working collaboratively with internal and external partners.
- Experience of working in complex projects situations.
- Experience in the effective use of a range of social media channels.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Use advanced analytical and judgement skills.
- Work flexibly, prioritise workloads and resource them in response to changing demands and requirements.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication
- (written, oral, presentation, facilitation), networking and negotiation skills, including strong writing, proof reading and editing abilities.
- Excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise, meet deadlines and delegate effectively.
- Ability to find innovative ways of solving or pre-empting problems.
- Confident, independent and effective decision maker, including the ability to make difficult decisions.
- Ability to work under pressure, to agreed/demanding deadlines.
- Ability to build relationships with key stakeholders.
- Managing and influencing strongly opposing views.
- Ability to work independently, or as part of a team, recognising and acting on wider corporate responsibilities.
- High level of IT literacy, including knowledge of MS Office programmes.
- Understanding of equality and valuing diversity principles.
- Understanding of confidentiality, information governance requirements.
- Good awareness and knowledge of the political environment, locally and nationally.
- Understanding the health policy and key themes of current health policy development.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level.
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma, or equivalent experience, or training.
Experience
Essential
- Communications and engagement experience, within a complex organisation.
- Developing evidence based researched and deliverable communication and engagement strategies, plans and approaches.
- Tailoring communications messages to key audiences in all sections of the community, including the media, hostile and antagonistic audiences.
- Designing, organising and managing high profile events for staff and the public.
- Ability to give expert advice at a range of organisational levels.
- Experience of working collaboratively with internal and external partners.
- Experience of working in complex projects situations.
- Experience in the effective use of a range of social media channels.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Use advanced analytical and judgement skills.
- Work flexibly, prioritise workloads and resource them in response to changing demands and requirements.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication
- (written, oral, presentation, facilitation), networking and negotiation skills, including strong writing, proof reading and editing abilities.
- Excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise, meet deadlines and delegate effectively.
- Ability to find innovative ways of solving or pre-empting problems.
- Confident, independent and effective decision maker, including the ability to make difficult decisions.
- Ability to work under pressure, to agreed/demanding deadlines.
- Ability to build relationships with key stakeholders.
- Managing and influencing strongly opposing views.
- Ability to work independently, or as part of a team, recognising and acting on wider corporate responsibilities.
- High level of IT literacy, including knowledge of MS Office programmes.
- Understanding of equality and valuing diversity principles.
- Understanding of confidentiality, information governance requirements.
- Good awareness and knowledge of the political environment, locally and nationally.
- Understanding the health policy and key themes of current health policy development.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
