Community Engagement Assistant

Working with the Regional Community Engagement team, you'll assist with marketing events and community engagement activities to recruit new donors while acting as a key channel of communication between your team, external stakeholders other colleagues within your directorate. By helping them make our wider strategies a success, you'll also be playing your part in helping thousands of patients live better, fuller lives. You'll be supporting donor recognition ceremonies, attending promotional events, processing sensitive information and supporting the evaluation of our community engagement activities. Building strong relationships with other departments and organisations will be crucial to your success. You'll have a proactive and confident communication style, excellent organisational skills and be focused on looking for opportunities to share our key messages with our key target audience.,

• Attending and setting up donor recruitment events and supporting community engagement activity including performing finger blood type tests.
• Supporting donor centre and mobile session marketing activities to support appointment fill.
• Attending and supporting donor recognition events where donors are awarded for their long service.
• Administrative duties such as updating the regional events toolkit with performance data and undertaking local research into community groups and organisations.
• Responding to incoming enquiries from donors or stakeholders in a timely manner.
• Working alongside the Community Engagement Coordinators to support the coordination of a calendar of marketing events and activity.
• Dealing with personal donor information and having sensitive conversations with potential new donors ensuring you maintain confidentiality and understanding.
• You will be required to undertake travel and spend time away from base to meet the requirements of the post (notice will be given)
  
  It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you'll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary - donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need.