Communications and Engagement Manager, Children's Hospital Alliance • Merseyside Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
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{"interviewQueryText":"What are some good interview questions in British English for the job description below?\n\n-------------------------------------------\n\nCommunications and Engagement Manager, Children's Hospital Alliance with Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust in Merseyside, England, United Kingdom\n\nThis essential new role will support the Children’s Hospital Alliance PMO team to expand and professionalise the CHA’s broad set of communication and engagement activities, working to and alongside the CHA’s Strategy and Advocacy Lead to provide strategic advice, project management, relationship management and message development for the PMO team, our co-chairs and other senior clinical and operational leaders. The post-holder will develop and lead on delivery of communication and engagement strategies for the CHA, develop and lead on dynamic, relevant and engaging campaigns and communications activity for NHS staff, the public, stakeholders and colleagues. Building on successful awareness-raising activity, new engagement interventions will raise participation and engagement in the CHA’s work amongst our diverse stakeholder base. The post holder will build measurement into everything they do, testing and adapting as they go. The role has been created to professionalise the CHA’s communications function and bolster our capacity to support our members, manage our partnerships and increase the reach and impact of our policy and advocacy activities. It reports into the CHA Strategy and Advocacy Lead, who will work closely with the post-holder to provide support and guidance on priorities and a shared approach. Critically, The Role Will Involve Communications strategy and planning Project management for our annual conference Member engagement Professionalizing our communications function: Communications campaigns Stakeholder engagement to support the CHA’s policy and advocacy on behalf of children, families and staff Working as a key member of the CHA PMO team. For Further info, please see full JD attached The Children’s Hospital Alliance brings together specialist and large children’s hospitals across the UK. We use our voice as a group of expert children’s providers, collaborating To learn from each other and innovate; To lead on service transformation, tackling health inequalities; To advocate for children and young people. Through our shared work programmes we aim to improve working lives of staff and access & experience of hospital care for children, young people and their families. The group first convened in 2016 and transformed in 2021, leveraging a £20m grant from the NHS Covid Recovery Accelerator scheme. The 10 Accelerator trusts all exceeded pre-Covid activity levels and worked together on innovation, shared learning and improvement. The Paediatric Accelerator became a national case study for best practice & won the 2022 HSJ Award for Performance Recovery. Member trusts are now self-funding a programme team to realise the potential of this collaborative way of working. The CHA is hosted by Alder Hey and co-chaired by Matthew Shaw (CEO GOSH) and Ruth Brown (CEO Sheffield Children’s). It is run by a PMO team led by Managing Director, Alexandra Norrish (also Development Director Sheffield Children’s), supported by the senior leadership teams within member trusts. The network is growing, with 13 member trusts in England and an associate member in Wales (Cardiff). More Detail Is Available In The Attached Job Description. For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Louisa Desborough Job title: CHA Strategy and Advocacy Lead Email address: louisa.desborough@gosh.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07730955691"}