Health and Care Academy Engagement Co-ordinator - Band 5

Through its comprehensive outreach programs, the Academy aims to broaden and deepen students' understanding of the diverse range of roles available across the industry through delivery of engaging workshops, assemblies, and virtual insight sessions in schools and colleges throughout the Mid and South Essex region.

These activities are designed to ignite interest, spark curiosity, and inspire young people to consider a future in the dynamic and rewarding field of healthcare.

By fostering a pipeline of talented individuals from a young age, the Health & Care Academy plays a crucial role in ensuring the future success and vitality of the healthcare system.

You will be be responsible for delivering Academy activities in schools and colleges across the Mid and South Essex region., It will be essential for you to be able to prioritise tasks and balance conflicting priorities to meet Academy support requests. You will be responsible for managing your interactions with schools and colleges and will be required to travel to schools, colleges and other settings on a regular basis to deliver activities, you will therefore need access to transport. You will also be responsible for ensuring that the activities you are delivering and supporting are of the required level of quality and delivered to time and cost.

You will be a keen multi-tasker, who enjoys working across a diverse range of projects, communicating with both internal staff and external school and college partners. You will be able to bring your strong organisational skills to the team, helping support the day to day tasks and larger projects of the Academy which focus on strengthening involvement, participation and co-production in Mid and South Essex.

You will have a very positive, 'can do' attitude and be able to prioritise, plan and organise your time efficiently and effectively. No two days will be quite the same in this varied and flexible role. If you are as comfortable spending a day with the team as you are working independently and confidently with new people, young people and schools as well as being highly organised this could be the job for you.

Mid and South Essex ICB is a statutory organisation responsible for the planning and delivery of local health and care services, across Mid and South Essex and is part of the wider integrated care system. Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) are partnerships of health and care organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined up services and to improve the health of people who live and work in their area. The headquarters for the organisation is Phoenix Court, Basildon, but there is a hybrid model of working, which includes working across Mid and South Essex and home working.