NHS North Central London Care Board | Internal Communication & Engagement Manager

We’re determined to tackle the health inequalities that affect our 1.4 million residents. We’re on a mission to ensure everyone can access high-quality health and care services. 

We have ambitious plans and inspiring stories to tell, with a redesigned communications and engagement team ready to bring our work to life.  

We need a brilliant, experienced internal communication and engagement manager to help us transform our approach. You’ll lead a step-change in how we inspire and involve our colleagues, and support them to succeed. You’ll evaluate what is and isn’t working, design and deliver new approaches and innovate to engage colleagues on what matters. 

This is a new role so if you are flexible, energetic, and approachable, with experience in strategic internal communications and engagement, channel development and management and in tactical delivery then you can really make the role your own. 

  • You’ll have tenacity, enthusiasm and people skills to influence internal stakeholders to align to a cohesive narrative around shared ambitions. 
  • You’ll lead our internal communications and engagement approach, delivery, development, advice and quality, working with colleagues from our team to develop and deliver content.
  • Reporting to the Assistant Director of Communications and Engagement and as part of our leadership team, you’ll play an important, and we hope rewarding, role in the next chapter for our talented and friendly team.  

If you want a job with clear purpose; where our people are committed to public service and making a positive difference; where we care about inclusion, equity and development; and where there is huge leadership support for communications and engagement; this could be just the role for you and we’d love to get your application.   

About NHS North Central London Integrated Care Board (NCL ICB)

NHS North Central London Integrated Care Board (NCL ICB) is a statutory body responsible for planning and allocating health and care resources to improve the lives of people in our five boroughs: Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, and Islington.  

As an ICB, we’re focused on: 

  • Improving outcomes in population health and healthcare 
  • Tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access 
  • Enhancing productivity and value for money  
  • Helping the NHS support broader social and economic development 

It is an exciting time to be joining NCL ICB – we have commenced an organisational change programme to redesign the structure of the organisation and the way that we work to better meet the needs of our population, our people, our system, and our partners. As part of the organisational change programme, we want to re-launch and re-energise the organisation, embed new ways of working and build the capabilities we need to create a thriving organisational culture.  

Main Duties of the Job

  • You’ll use a range of digital and offline channels and tactics to effectively communicate our vision, achievements, and challenges to our colleagues, inspiring them to play their part in improving population health and reducing the inequalities that affect so many local residents. 
  • You’ll design and deliver a refreshed approach to informing and engaging staff, this includes implementing behavioural science based internal campaigns, channel evaluation and development – including a new intranet. 
  • You’ll deliver a programme of measurable activity to bring our values and behaviours to life and ensure staff feel informed, involved, engaged, and recognised – clear about the purpose of the organisation and their part within it. 
  • Working closely with colleagues in the People and Culture team, you will help us build an engaged and high performing workforce, aligned to a clear organisational narrative.  
  • You’ll create opportunities for staff to have a voice and be recognised for the contribution they make. You’ll make a positive contribution to raising staff engagement and driving internal culture change. You’ll play a key part in ensuring the ICB feels a genuinely inclusive environment where staff all feel seen and appreciated. 
  • You’ll support the ICB in its response to business continuity or emergency events, helping to ensure staff feel well informed and supported to play their part through unforeseen events. 

As part of the Communication and Engagement senior leadership team, you’ll contribute to supporting the whole team to deliver and succeed, including effective planning. You’ll also develop relationships with internal communication partners across our area to ensure we’re joined up as an integrated system in communicating to colleagues and implementing best practice. 

How to apply

To learn about the role and responsibilities in full, please click here (additionally, click here to read a letter from the Director of Communications). To apply for this role, please complete an application form here.

Applications deadline: October 29th 2024

When submitting your application, please specify that you heard about the role through the Taylor Bennett Foundation.