Deputy Head of Communications
Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
£54,223 - £60,316 p.a inc HCA
Charities, Health, Health, Allied health professions, Mental health, Marketing & PR, Communications, Conferences & events, Digital marketing, PR, Academic & research, Social media
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Job ref: 196-COF7248
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £54,223 - £60,316 p.a inc HCA
Guy's and St Thomas' are among the UK's busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy's is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas' has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children's Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions. The Duchess of Cambridge became the Patron of Evelina London in 2018.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King's Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King's College London, we have dedicated clinical research facilities and a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of 'good'. Our adult community services achieved a rating of 'outstanding'.
The commitment of our 22,000 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff, so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
King's Health Partners is an Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) where world-class research, education and clinical practice are brought together for the benefit of patients. One of eight AHSCs nationally, our partnership brings together three NHS Foundation Trusts (Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley), uniquely including both mental and physical healthcare providers and an internationally rated top 25 university in health research and education, King's College London. We work to ensure that lessons from research are used more swiftly, effectively, and systematically, to improve healthcare services for everyone in our diverse local population.
The communications team provides a comprehensive communications service for King's Health Partners, including internal and external communications; media handling, management of the KHP website, social media, events, corporate publications and marketing.
We are committed to providing the best possible information to the wide range of audiences we serve, in particular collaborating and working closely across the 4 Partner organisations, patient groups and the public, Clinical Academic Groups and Partnerships, key programmes, KHP staff, the media, and our many partner organisations, supporters and collaborators. We do this through a wide range of communication channels, events and campaigns, working closely with our KHP Partner organisations to achieve this.
Main duties of the job
You will have senior responsibility for the development, delivery and strategic oversight of all KHP communications, including all web and social media presence, working closely with the Head of Communications, Managing Director, Executive Director, partner Communications Directors and other members of the communications team, and senior managers across the partnership.
A key part of the role will be acting as the lead communications liaison for the KHP Clinical Academic Partnerships, which develop world-leading clinical academic centres in Cardiovascular and Respiratory health, Haematology, Neurosciences, Diabetes and Obesity, and Women's and Children's Health.
The KHP communications team has grown in size and output over the last two years, reflecting the increased scale and profile of the partnership's work. It is envisaged that the partnership's communications function will grow further in the near future as core programmes increase outputs and new partnerships with KHP are developing across the local healthcare system. The Deputy Head of Communications will play a vital role in onboarding, establishing and effectively organising a growing team and communications strategy, offering pivotal communications advice, organisation and project management oversight to the central communications team.
Working for our organisation
This is a senior reputation management role to promote and protect the reputation of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre.
You will develop key relationships and networks with the King's Health Partners Executive, partners, key senior stakeholders, e.g., SROs and Programme Directors for programmes and Institutes, staff across King's Health Partners and with external stakeholders.
They will inspire confidence and trust through their professional and personal capabilities and conduct and will develop proactive relationships with a broad range of key stakeholders in order to fulfil their role effectively. As a senior representative of the AHSC, in a high-profile role, it will be essential that all relationships epitomise the values of the organisations.
Guy's and St Thomas' celebrate, respect and value the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or studies at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Your e-mail address is important to us - We communicate to all job applicants via the e-mail address which has been provided on the application form. Please ensure that you check your e-mail on a regular basis.
Closing date: 30 January 2022 at 23:59.
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