Head of Communications

2 weeks ago


Salford, United Kingdom Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust Full time

If you want to play a part in creating a healthier community for Greater Manchester, take your place with us.

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) has a dedicated team of around 20,000 colleagues - our NCA family - providing a range of community and hospital services to over one million people across Bury, Oldham, Rochdale and Salford, as well as providing more specialist care services to patients across Greater Manchester and beyond.

NCA is a place where success is achievable and every day offers the challenges, empowerment, freedom and support necessary to break new ground and improve the lives of the communities we serve.

We are looking for an experienced communications professional, with honed communications skills and the ability to hit the ground running.

As Head of Communications, you will be strategic and hands on, supporting and guiding our leaders in delivering excellent communications for our colleagues, patients, service users and their families.

Working with two other Heads of Communications you will need in-depth media handling competence, internal communications exemplar skills, marketing, digital and stakeholder experience.

You will have specific leadership responsibility for Partnerships and Transformation: including external communications and media management, professional partnerships, and the transformation of the communications function.

The post holder reports to the NCA Director of Communications and Fundraising and has responsibility, as part of the Communications Senior Leadership Team, for the delivery of the Group communications functions, supporting our Care Organisations and corporate functions to meet the needs of our people and the patients and populations we serve. The post holder will lead the delivery of communications for our colleagues, patients, partners and wider stakeholders.

The Head of Communications is responsible for highly complex, timely, clear, efficient, strategic and operational communications to internal and external audiences. The Head of Communications will develop and implement integrated marketing, communications, branding and reputation management initiatives, consistent with the NCAs objectives and priorities. They will lead a multi-disciplinary team to provide technical advice and guidance on appropriate communications solutions.

The Northern Care Alliance (NCA) is one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. Launched in April 2017, the NCA serves over one million people across Greater Manchester and employs over 19,000 healthcare professionals across Bury, Rochdale, Salford and Oldham. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. At the NCA, we can offer groupwide, flexible multi-site opportunities, as part of our connected, integrated and engaged team. We believe in saving and improving lives and are passionate about driving forward significant improvements to the provision of safe, high-quality integrated health and social care to our local community. If you share our vision, take your place with us.

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading.

Further detail around the NCA Procurement Team, including our departmental structure and procurement department newsletter, can be found by visiting our website: Procurement : Northern Care Alliance



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