Communications Manager | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Are you a communications professional looking for an exciting opportunity? Come and join one of the most innovative and progressive Trusts in the North West.

You'll provide expert advice to colleagues and leaders on internal messaging, ensuring communications are timely, inclusive and aligned with the Trust's tone, values and organisational priorities.

You'll contribute specialist internal communications expertise to planning and delivery of group wide campaigns, helping make sure content is engaging, well integrated and tailored to the needs of staff.

You'll work closely with other members of the communications team and other colleagues to make sure internal communications are joined up, insight led and reflect best practice and you'll contribute to evaluation, learning and continuous improvement across the communications function.

This is an exciting chance to make a difference in a large, complex organisation and influence how we communicate with - and celebrate our people.

As Communications Manager, you'll plan and deliver internal communications to more than 11,000 staff working across Cheshire and Merseyside.

Working closely with others, you will develop and deliver communication plans that support the delivery of our key priorities, helping staff feel informed, involved and connected to our organisation.

This includes:

· Lead internal communications planningin line with the Trust strategic plan, ensuring messaging is consistent, high quality and on brand

· Providecommunications support to a portfolio of services within Trust Wide Support Services (corporate services )

· Create and manage engaging content(briefings, articles, newsletters, bulletins and social posts for recruitment and staff Facebook)

· Provide expert advice and quality assuranceon corporate publications and materials, including design/print, to meet branding and information standards

· Deliver timely communications and engagementso staff and key stakeholders are informed appropriately and consistently.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

To implement the Trust's communication strategic plan, ensuring consistent messaging, branding and communication standards.

To lead on the production and implementation of an internal communication plan that directly aligns with the Trust's strategic development plans.

To proactively ensure that all communications with staff are consistent and aligned with the Trust's values and visions for the future.

To provide general support and advice on corporate publications and material developed by the Trust, including design and print work.

To be responsible for effective communication and engagement activities to support the business of the Trust.

To commission, write and/or edit briefings, articles, newsletter content, web and social media content and bulletins for internal and external audiences.

To review written material to ensure content and layout meet Trust branding guidelines and relevant patient information standards.

To ensure information is shared in a timely and appropriate manner with staff, patients, carers and other key stakeholders

To advise and direct on communicating sensitive information, both clinical and non-clinical.

To support major incident and emergency planning communications activity which may occur outside of office hours.

Required to participate in the Communications on call rota, liaising with staff, media and stakeholders out of hours as the communications lead for the Trust.

To identify and generate 'good news' stories for external use and for corporate campaigns.

To support the effective management of sensitive media issues and investigations.