Job summary
- Main area
- Community Involvement
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Flexibility to working hours may be required on occasion)
- Job ref
- 214-CEN-7189821
- Employer
- Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- King's Mill Hospital
- Town
- Sutton in Ashfield
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Community Involvement Co-ordinator
NHS AfC: Band 5
Thank you for your interest in this role, we would be delighted to welcome you to Sherwood Forest Hospitals.
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here annd know that happy colleagues deliver better care.
Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We would love you to join us.
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Job overview
Are you organised, people-focused and passionate about making a difference for patients, visitors and staff in your local hospital?
The Community Involvement Department is responsible for the development and co-ordination of the trust's third sector provision which includes volunteering, fundraising and supporting community groups. The department also plays a major role in the governance, operations and promotional activities of the Sherwood Forest Hospitals Charity.
We are looking for an experienced and motivated individual with exceptional people management skills to co-ordinate and support our dedicated team of staff and volunteers. A good understanding of the value that volunteers can bring to our hospitals is essential. This is a vital role in ensuring the smooth delivery of high quality services and maintaining a positive and productive working environment and playing a key part in improving the experience of people visiting our hospitals.
Our ideal candidate will be proactive, organised and with a keen eye for detail to drive the delivery of high standards.
Our front of house service is currently open Monday to Friday between 7.30am to 4.30pm but, due to the nature of our work, occasional evening or weekend work is required to support events and activities.
This post-holder will primarily cover services at King's Mill and Mansfield Community Hospitals but there may be occasion to cover for absence at Newark Hospital.
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Working for our organisation
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Knowledge, Skills and Experience Requirements
Essential criteria
- Experience working in a charity role or third sector organisation co-ordinating front-line voluntary services and fundraising activities
- Current knowledge of the charity commission governance requirements
- Experience of operational recruitment/selection, induction, ongoing training and placement of volunteers
- Experience of planning and facilitating focus groups and presentations
- Significant expertise in the use of a wide range of IT packages for the production of a range of reports (including board reports), publicity materials and bulletins (for internal and external publication)
- Experience of working within a broad policy framework and operational procedures on own initiative using appropriate analysis and judgement but without immediate supervision
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate at all levels within a multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to manage conflicting pressures and to meet deadlines
- Good understanding of principles and practice of effective team management
- Previous line management experience of a team
- Managing and prioritising workloads when under pressure
- Communicating with and providing Community Involvement advice to managers and employees at all levels
- Understanding of equal opportunities legislation in relation to recruitment and selection
- Data Protection in relation to the storage and use of employee data
- IT competent with ability to use Microsoft Office applications
- Strong organisational skills for managing own time and service delivery
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Flexible and pragmatic approach to problem solving and working practices
- Demonstrates professionalism at all times
Desirable criteria
- Previous NHS experience
- Previous retail management experience
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to diploma level 4 or relevant knowledge and experience
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Postgraduate qualification with focus on Human Resources, interviewing, counselling, mentoring/coaching, careers advice, psychology etc
Contractual Requirements
Essential criteria
- Able to work Trust wide and travel to other hospital sites
- Flexible in working pattern including some evening and weekend working to meet the demands of the Community Involvement Service
- Smart professional appearance
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jo Thornley
- Job title
- Community Involvement Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07540 672946
- Additional information
Informal visits and calls are welcomed to discuss this exciting opportunity.
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