OPIC Senior Communications and Engagement Manager

We are seeking a highly skilled and effective Senior Communications and Engagement Manager to support the OPIC Programme Director and executive leads to drive the Office of the Pan-ICB Commissioning (OPIC) and Change programme across NHS England and the 4 South-East ICBs. This role offers the chance to work at the heart of the NHS reform agenda, ensuring our regional OPIC draws on the collective commissioning expertise and strengths of the ICBs and the specialist teams transferring from NHS England to OPIC. The SE OPIC will create a critical mass of expert commissioning knowledge and capability necessary for the effective and efficient commissioning of highly specialised and complex areas of service provision, and play a vital role in facilitating multi-ICB collaboration and decision-making, ensuring strong patient and public involvement in the design and delivery of services, and building strong relationships., As the Senior Communications and Engagement Manager, you will lead the delivery of high-quality change communications and engagement activity across the partnership, ensuring it is aligned to strategic priorities and delivers measurable impact during a time of change., At our Organisation, our selection process ensures we recruit candidates with the right skills and values. We monitor AI use in applications and remain alert to misuse that misrepresents abilities. You must declare any AI use when submitting your application.

This role is ideal for an experienced Senior Communications and Engagement Manager, with experience of change communications, who are interested in a fixed term opportunity to support the change programme.

We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We believe that the best employers are those that reflect the communities they serve. We want to increase the diversity of our NHS leadership and particularly encourage applications from women, people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, LGBT communities, younger candidates and from people with lived experience of disability, who we know are all under-represented in these important roles. We are committed to delivering a trustworthy, flexible and responsible staff culture.