Job summary

Kingston Hospital Charity is committed to improving the quality of care and the experience ofeveryone who comes to Kingston Hospital or uses the services it provides across the community. This is achieved through a combination of securing funding for range of priority projects and awarding grants to successful applicants. We want our local NHS to be the best it can be for patients, families and staff, as reflected by the significant growth in income over the last few years.

Working with the director, Grants Committee and trustees, the grants manager will ensure he/ she delivers the best possible support and guidance consistently. This will involve developing and perfecting sound grant-making processes, assisting staff with applications, selection, awarding, distribution and monitoring and evaluating outcomes. This person will also lead on maintaining accurate data and supporting the trustees with progress reporting and stakeholder management. This is a relationship and process-based role which reaches right across all the NHS trust's services.

This role will also assist the development of communication materials, including the identification of grantees to spotlight through storytelling and sharing content that can be used to promote the impact of the charity's work through social media and other channels.

Main duties of the job

Overall responsibility for developing, managing and improving Kingston Hospital Charity's grants programme, including its processes and systems, to achieve efficient and effective operations, ensuring projects with the greatest patient benefit are supported.

Be the main point of contact for all grant enquiries/ queries. Work with applicants in a professional and responsive manner to ensure projects, however complex, are clearly and coherently communicated.

Develop metrics and manage the evaluation of all grants to showcase their impact, share learning and further improve the grants programme.

Actively promote the grants programme across the NHS foundation trust, liaising with clinicians, management and staff at all levels to ensure high levels of understanding and engagement.

Manage and monitor grants, regularly reviewing progress, ensuring accurate record-keeping and reporting on progress.

Oversee the management of the Grants Committee including: assessing grant applications and making recommendations as part of the preparation of papers for review; writing meeting minutes; and providing applicant feedback. Also, preparation of the Grants Report for presentation at the quarterly Charitable Funds Committee meeting.

About us

Trust Values

Kingston Hospital NHS Trust has five key values and we want to employ and work with people who share these values and demonstrate behaviours that support them. They are:

-Caring- Design and deliver care around each individual patient's needs and wants.-Safe- Make the safety of patients and staff our prime concern as safety comes first-Responsible- All staff take responsibility for the hospital, its services and reputation-Value Each Other- Value each other's contribution-Inspiring- We always strive to empower each other to develop and deliver improvements to benefit our patients