Communication and Briefing lead

2 weeks ago

Leeds, United Kingdom Department of Health and Social Care Full time

Job summary

In DHSC, we are proud of our purpose � to enable everyone to live more independent, healthier lives for longer. To achieve this, and create a great place to work, we have four values: we are inclusive, we constantly improve, we challenge, and we are agile. If this sounds like an environment you�d like to work in, we�d love to hear from you.

This role sits within the NHS Workforce Directorate, which is part of the Secondary Care and Integration Group. The NHS workforce is a complex, high-profile policy area with considerable interest from ministers and senior officials, the public and the media. It is at the heart of ensuring the NHS can deliver the services the country needs. The Directorate includes Industrial Relations and Pay policy, which​ leads on the ongoing relationship with the health unions and takes forward the Pay Review Body process, which makes recommendations to Ministers on the annual public sector pay award.

Job description

You will head up the new Workforce Directorate briefing hub, leading a team of four. You will support them on the timely delivery of a wide range of briefing products. This will range from, for example, Parliamentary Questions to debate packs and briefing for urgent questions. As such you will play a key role in supporting Ministers to fulfil their parliamentary responsibilities, which is a key priority for the Department. This means exposure not just to Ministers and their offices, but to teams across the department including policy teams, the Parliamentary Team, and senior leaders. You will also support the Directorate's Senior Leadership Team on key activities essential to the running of the directorate, such as managing our risks and business planning. You will be expected to build strong working relationships at speed both within the Directorate, including with the Senior Leadership Team, and more widely with key colleagues across the Department.

Leading the hub will involve developing briefing products and tools, delivering a quality service to policy teams and Ministers. It will also involve working closely with the media team on public lines on workforce, an area of significant interest to the media. Critical to success is staying on top of the fast-moving policy position on workforce and ensuring this is accurately reflected in the government�s public stance.

This role would be an excellent fit for someone hoping to gain experience of team leadership, build their profile with senior colleagues, expand their policy knowledge and gain experience of advising Ministers.

Delivering a high quality service to the directorate, Private Offices and Ministers.Providing strong leadership of the Workforce Directorate briefing hub. This will mean managing a team of four staff within the briefing hub and matrix managing other staff who contribute to its work.Tracking and ensuring strong directorate performance against central targets on Parliamentary Questions and correspondence cases, which is a key priority for the department in delivering its responsibilities to parliament and the public.Working with the Department's media team and policy teams to respond to press queries.Overseeing, and sometimes drafting, responses to commissions relating to parliamentary business eg. debates, urgent questions.Overseeing, and sometimes drafting, directorate responses to corporate requests such as updating risk registers and business planning.Building strong relationships with teams within the directorate and outside, including Correspondence Unit, the Parliamentary Team and Private Offices.Designing and developing high quality briefing tools, such as a directorate core brief, to support the directorate.Planning and prioritising work whilst remaining flexible in order to respond to changing priorities.

Your normal place of work will be your contractual primary workplace, usually either London or Leeds.� Within DHSC we offer non-contractual hybrid working. The expectation at present is a minimum of 60% of your working time spent in the office, enabling in person interaction and collaboration and enhancing team working, learning, and support.�

You will be asked to express a location preference during the application process. Please be aware that this role can only be worked in the UK and not overseas and some travel may be required across the DHSC estate.�

Opportunities for some working from home may be available; other flexible working options may be discussed with the hiring manager in line with individual circumstances and business need.�

There are a limited number of DHSC colleagues who have existing agreed homeworking contracts resulting from Our Future Estate Programme 2023-2024. Colleagues covered by these arrangements are eligible to apply for this role whilst continuing their agreed existing home working arrangement. Occasional travel to DHSC offices or other locations may still be required according to business need. Travel and subsistence will be provided in line with the pre-agreed homeworker arrangements.

Person specification

Key Skills and Experience�

We are looking for you to demonstrate the following essential skills:

Communicating clearly and effectively in writing and orally, knowing how to adapt style, formality and length to achieve different goals and to support different audiences.Team working, collaborating and building positive working relationships.Working to deadlines, reprioritising and working flexibly to achieve goals. Taking responsibility to monitor work against deadlines and support others to do so when necessary.Being alert to emerging issues and trends and seeking out experiences to develop your knowledge.

Desirable skills:

Desirable but not essential is an understanding of current challenges facing the NHS and its workforce or experience of working in a health-related role.Also desirable but not essential is experience of team management.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Communicating and InfluencingLeadershipDelivering at PaceWorking Together

Benefits

Alongside your salary of �53,116, Department of Health and Social Care contributes �14,341 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Learning and development tailored to your roleAn environment with flexible working optionsA culture encouraging inclusion and diversityA with an average employer contribution of 27%

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