You will lead a high-performing communications and engagement function through three senior Heads of Service and provide strategic oversight of communications supporting the nationally significant New Hospital Programme. Acting as a trusted adviser to Executive Directors and senior leaders, you will lead the Trust’s response to high-profile issues, organisational change and crisis situations, ensuring clear, effective and impactful communications across internal and external audiences. This is a unique opportunity to influence at the highest level, strengthen the Trust’s reputation, and help create a modern, insight-driven communications function that delivers measurable outcomes for patients, colleagues, partners and communities.
Why Join Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust?
At Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, our people are at the heart of everything we do. As a Disability Confident Employer and recipient of the Gold Award in the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme, we actively champion equality, diversity and inclusion, creating opportunities for people from all backgrounds to build rewarding careers within the NHS. We also recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance. By supporting flexible working arrangements wherever possible, we enable our colleagues to balance their professional and personal commitments while continuing to deliver outstanding care to our patients. Whether flexibility means adjusted hours, part-time working, hybrid arrangements or alternative working patterns, we work in partnership with our staff to meet both individual and service needs.
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Whether you’re at the start of your career or looking for your next challenge, Frimley Health offers the opportunity to be part of a inclusive, forward-thinking organisation that is committed to excellence, innovation and compassionate care. Together, we can shape the future of healthcare and make a real difference to the lives of the communities we serve. Frimley Health Trust benefits on Vimeo
- Supporting the development and delivery of the Trust’s Communications and Engagement Strategy.
- Leading and developing a multidisciplinary communications and engagement team through senior leadership direct reports.
- Providing strategic communications leadership for major organisational transformation programmes, including the New Hospital Programme.
- Advising Executive Directors and Board members on media relations, reputation management, stakeholder engagement and crisis communications.
- Driving an insight-led, audience-focused approach to communications, embedding evaluation and evidence-based practice across the function.
- Ensuring effective engagement with patients, communities, colleagues, partners, elected representatives and other key stakeholders.
- Leading the Trust’s response to high-profile, politically sensitive and complex communications challenges.We are seeking an exceptional communications and engagement leader to join us as Deputy Director of Communications and Engagement. This is a high-profile role for an individual who thrives in complex, fast-paced and politically sensitive environments and is passionate about delivering communications that make a meaningful difference.
You will bring substantial senior leadership experience, a strong track record of leading large-scale communications and engagement programmes, and the credibility to influence and challenge at Executive and Board level. You will be a strategic thinker with excellent judgement, capable of building strong relationships and leading teams through change, whilst embedding insight, research and evaluation at the heart of communications delivery.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is one of the highest-performing trusts in the NHS, serving almost one million people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and South Buckinghamshire. With more than 14,000 colleagues and a £1.8 billion new Frimley Park Hospital in development through the Government’s New Hospital Programme, we are entering a period of significant transformation and opportunity.
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