Job summary
- Main area
- Communications
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-AC105-0525
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Hub, Llantrisant
- Town
- Llantrisant
- Salary
- £46,840 - £53,602 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Communications and Engagement Manager
Band 7
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Job overview
Job Overview
· The Communications & Engagement Manager is the operational communications and engagement lead for CTM UHB, ensuring an effective, responsive and high-quality service is provided to internal and external audiences.
· They are responsible for the development, implementation and evaluation of communications activities and projects, including events, campaigns, media handling, and engagement programmes.
· They have specific responsibility for the development and delivery of a forward-thinking social media strategy, working closely with the digital lead to co-design content plans and activities that employ emerging technologies and practices.
Main duties of the job
Communications and media
- Oversee the health board’s press office function
- Develop pro-active media releases and opportunities to promote the work of CTM UHB
- Devise and lead the implementation of a social media strategy
- Plan and manage complex communications activities, projects, campaigns and events
- Coordinate internal corporate communications activities and events.
- Work with digital communications colleagues to ensure the health board’s website and intranet are accessible, accurate and useful resources
- Support the development and delivery of content that supports and enables the work of the health board’s charity.
Supervision
- Supervise the communications and engagement officers
Engagement
- Develop and deliver public engagement resources, activities, events and plans
General
- Ensure the delivery of the CTMUHB Communications and Engagement strategy
- Participate in the out of hours/on call rota function. Undertake occasional weekend and evening duties, as required, in line with the business’s needs.
Expert advice and guidance
- Provide expertise to health board project teams and care groups, offering specialist advice and guidance, and embedding excellent communications practice into the planning and delivery of work.
- Advise senior leaders, including executive directors and Board members, on communications and engagement issues and best practice.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click "Apply now" to view in Trac.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Relevant degree (e.g. Media, Journalism, PR, Marketing or English) or the equivalent level of knowledge and experience.
Desirable criteria
- Desirable Relevant Public Relations or Marketing qualification (CIPR, CIM)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of delivering communication and engagement activities within an in-house team or agency communications team.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within NHS communications
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alex Harden
- Job title
- Head of Media and Communications
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07815 959157
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