Senior Communications and Engagement Officer

3 months ago


Manchester, United Kingdom Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Working collaboratively with the Business Support Manager you will design and develop innovative and exciting staff engagement activities supporting the workforce priorities of our senior leadership team.

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.

Interested? Please call Graham Rimmer for a discussion about the role on 07890 038 472.

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

This is an exciting opportunity to join Saint Mary’s Managed Clinical Service (MCS). as our Senior Communications adn Engagement Officer with responsibility for leading the creation and maintenance of a strong stakeholder engagement network across our MCS and wider Trust, producing high quality and eye-catching materials and literature for our internal communications in 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, 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 annual staff recognition awards

Support positive patient stories for external audiences

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & 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 28,000 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.

Diversity Matters

We’re looking forward to hearing from you



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