Job summary
At East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, we're planning a once-in-a-generation redevelopment of our hospital facilities, enabling us to go even further in providing the very best care for our patients.
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of developing plans for the redevelopment and new build projects across the 3 main hospital sites of Eastbourne, Hastings and Bexhill for the population of East Sussex.
The team already includes specialist advisers, estates experts, digital experts, programme leadership and management, clinical leadership and subject matter expertise.
This Co-Production and Engagement Manager role will add to skill set within the programme team to enable co-production of the building designs and clinical models with members of staff and the East Sussex Community. The critical skill for this role is engagement and facilitation capability across a complex range of stakeholders, with different purposes, on a complex and in some areas challenging programme.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will:
Identify and map key internal and external stakeholders to develop a tailored engagement approach for effective and impactful engagement for the BFF programme
Establish a proactive co-production plan to extend and maximise engagement with staff, community groups and third sector organisations to include diverse and those traditionally seen to be harder to reach groups
Develop a series of regular engagement and co-production activities for staff, patients and external stakeholders
Build and maintain positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring their concerns are acknowledged and appropriately addressed
Monitor coverage related to New Hospital Programme (NHP),collate stakeholders' views and learn from other organisations in the programme both to inform the plans we produce and engagement approaches are effective
Maintain, exploit and contribute to a network within the NHP to ensure we benefit from and share best practice, experience and expertise
Provide highly complex, sensitive and potentially contentious information briefs and reports, including presenting information about the programme and dependencies to a wide range of clinicians, colleagues, our Executive team and external stakeholders (including other providers in NHS Sussex, our ICB as well as patient groups, local authority colleagues, VCSE) in formal and informal settings
About us
We are proud to provide 'Outstanding' care and be a great place to work
We provide safe, compassionate and high quality care to half a million people living or visiting East Sussex. We are one of the largest organisations in East Sussex, the only integrated provider of acute and community care in Sussex. Our extensive services are provided by 7000 + members of staff working from acute hospitals in Hastings and Eastbourne, three community hospitals in Bexhill, Rye and Uckfield, over 100 community sites and in people's own homes.
In 2020 the Care Quality Commission rated us as 'Good' overall, and 'Outstanding' for being caring and effective. The Conquest Hospital and our Community Services are rated 'Outstanding'. Eastbourne DGH rated 'Good'.
In 2020, the Trust launched its ambitious 'Building for our Future' programme. This once in a lifetime programme aims to repair, redevelop and expand our hospitals, transforming the environment in which we provide care for generations to come.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description attached.
If you have any questions about this position please do not hesitate to contact us.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level
- Masters degree in a relevant discipline or proven equivalent training and experience
Desirable
- Structured professional course and qualifications relevant to communications, PR, marketing, journalism or related field
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable track record of leadership within an NHS engagement environment
- Experience of constructing and executing a complex communications and engagement plan, including successful risk and issues management
- Delivering change and improvements in a highly complex multi organisational environment with a wide range of stakeholders
- Indirect management of multi-disciplinary teams - internal and external
- Budget and financial management
- Experience of working in the NHS or other politically high-profile organisation
Desirable
- Facilitating workshops to deliver training and/or facilitate service redesign
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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Employer details
Employer name
East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
Address
Eastbourne District General Hospital
Kings Drive
Eastbourne
BN21 2UD