Job vacancy: Recognition and engagement officer, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Basingstoke

Job summary

Main area: Communications
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 4
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Flexible and hybrid working)
Job ref: 251-CORP3206-REO

Employer: Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Cross site, hybrid working - Basingstoke/Andover/Winchester/Home
Town: Basingstoke
Salary: £28,392 - £31,157 per annum pro-rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 12/07/2026 23:59

Recognition and engagement officer

NHS AfC: Band 4

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Reward and Recognition

· Managing the formal reward and recognition programme

· Evaluating and proposing future development and improvements for the schemes, gathering and acting on feedback

· Developing communications activities in relation to reward and recognition

· Delivering the recognition programmes within budget.

· Working with diversity and inclusion leads and the Communications team to increase diversity in award nominations and ensuring an equitable judging process

The ICARE Awards

· Manage the ICARE Awards including:

o Creating and maintaining the ICARE Awards area of the public website, with support of the wider Communications team

o Corresponding with HR, quality leads and senior managers to approve awards

o Issuing awards with personalised letters from the CEO

o Supporting divisional teams with presentations

o Undertaking administrative tasks relating to the ICARE Awards

o Being the first point of contact for ICARE awards

o Working with the Communications Team to promote the Awards, ensuring that nomination periods and winners are communicated, and any interesting stories are highlighted and shared

o Feeding the ICARE Awards into the annual awards judging panel at the end of the year

o Arranging and managing the judging panel, ensuring all nominations are available for judging prior to the panel

Long Service Awards

· Working with Employment relations, manage the Long Service Awards including:

o Actively collecting information from HR department of individuals due to receive award

o Undertaking administrative tasks relating to the Long Service Awards

o Issuing personalised rewards and letters signed by CEO

o Responsible for dealing with, and the security of, confidential information about staff

o Sharing long service achievements through Communications channels and promoting long service programme with support of Communications team

Annual Awards

· As the Trust lead for the delivery of the recognition programme, supporting the Annual Awards ceremony including:

o Arranging and supporting the judging panel, ensuring all nominations are available for judging prior to the panel

o Overseeing key project documents such as timelines, budget etc

o Undertaking administrative tasks relating to the Annual Awards ceremony

o Liaising with the venue and stakeholders to deliver requirements

o Assisting with on the day event coordination

o This part of the role will include some evening work

Communications

Working with the wider Communications team to develop communication activities that cross over with the remit of the post holder
Supporting wider engagement and recognition communications activities undertaken by the team to improve the working experience
Supporting communications activities as required eg. corporate events

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of working in an employee experience, engagement or recognition role
Experience of using social media and web platforms

Desirable criteria

Able to manipulate data, mail merging, etc. using excel

Skills and ability

Essential criteria

Self motivated, self-starter, able to organise a large and varied work programme
Able to provide innovative solutions to problems

Other role specific requirements

Essential criteria

Ability to travel for meetings across our sites Basingstoke / Winchester / Andover

Desirable criteria

Be able to demonstrate an understanding of the principles of equality, diversity, and inclusion and how they apply to staff and patients in a healthcare setting

Our commitment to you:

We are committed to equality and diversity in both the provision of our services and how we recruit and manage our staff. Applications are encouraged from everyone with the necessary attributes for the job, irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity.

Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.

The paperwork:

HHFT is committed to putting the safety and care of our patients first – as well as helping us to protect you and your colleagues. Therefore, we would recommend that you are vaccinated against COVID-19 and that you understand that we are treating COVID-19 positive patients within our services.
Shortlisted candidates will be contacted at least 5 working days before the scheduled interview date. Applications will be submitted directly into our preferred third party recruitment system (Trac). All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs via email - please ensure to check your junk/spam folders.
All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.
In compliance with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, all applicants must be able to communicate fluently in English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed as part of the selection process.
This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. If you intend to apply you are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.
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