Job summary
- Main area
- We are looking for someone with experience in organising learning and development events, site visits and outreach events.
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Fixed term: 6 months (31/03/2026)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 990-CFO-16255-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wellington House
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £64,455 - £74,896 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Engagement Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
We are an accredited Living Wage Employer which means that every colleague working for our organisation and third-party contractors will earn a real Living Wage. We are one of over 15,000 organisations, who voluntarily chose to pay the real Living Wage.
Job overview
The Health and Growth Accelerator Programme work with teams nationally, across government and local ICB Accelerator sites to support the delivery of the Accelerators
This role is key to supporting the system led learning approach we are taking, joining up across sites and health and work national programmes being implemented locally. This will include delivering engagement events aimed at sharing learning, collective problem solving with the Accelerators and broader stakeholder events
The post holder will be required to travel regularly to Leeds (if based in London) or to London (if based in Leeds). Some travel throughout England will also be required.
Main duties of the job
The role will support:
· Delivery of the Accelerators through direct liaison and engagement with sites, services and cross-government colleagues, including co-ordinating across national teams to provide a coherent and joined up support to sites.
· Delivery of future work on the rollout of Accelerators to 2028-29, including engagement with further ICBs.
· Development of alignment between Accelerators and the 10 Year Plan and Neighbourhood Health.
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
If you are successful at interview, we will run an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) in the Electronic Staff Record system (ESR). This transfer gathers valuable information from a previous or current NHS employer to support the onboarding process, including; statutory and mandatory competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You will have the opportunity throughout the recruitment process to inform us if you do not consent.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Secondments
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
- Educated to masters’ level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Further training or significant experience in engagement and communications.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience of delivering insightful points of view from stakeholder feedback and ability to present analysis, information and reporting in a clear and logical way
- Ability to develop and execute stakeholder events, both virtual and in person
- Understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciation of the implications of this on engagement.
- Appreciate the relationship between the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and individual provider and commissioning organisations
Skills, Capabilities adn attributes
Essential criteria
- An excellent communicator, both in person and in writing, with the ability to present advice and information in a clear and logical way.
- Established stakeholder management
- Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice, working to tight and often changing timescales
Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- Commitment to and focus on quality, promoting high standards in all they do.
- Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public
- Values diversity and difference; operates with integrity and openness
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Shabana Janjua
- Job title
- Deputy Director of Strategy
- Email address
- [email protected]
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