Band 5 Psychological Professions Communications Support Officer

Are you keen to support our NHS workforce to develop and grow? Can your wide range of communications skills help us promote the range of roles and opportunities for Psychological Professions in the NHS to improve the outcomes for our colleagues and communities alike? If so, come join our team! This is an exciting time to join the Corporate Psychology team in our Trust. We are involved in a range of transformational workforce training and education projects, both internal to the Trust and Region wide. And we need your communications skillset.

You will support, co-ordinate and monitor our internal and external communication channels for Psychological Professionals and provide expert communication skillset support for our training and education workstreams within Chief Psychologist’s portfolio. This 21 month fixed-term full-time communication support officer role will have strong project support and administrative focus, and will also include key elements of project coordination and delivery through the managing of key communications inboxes, coordinating responses to internal and external queries, developing our social media presence, designing and publishing posts across channels, developing and editing vlogs, blogs, webpages, webinars and eLearning resources focused on the diversity of roles in the Psychological Professions.

You will also provide an effective and comprehensive communications support to the Chief Psychologist and senior Psychological Professions leads responsible for Training & Education Projects as appropriate. And you will be supported to work autonomously, initiating action on behalf of the Chief Psychologist linked to communications needs for our Training & Education for Psychological Professionals areas of work.

The Communications Officer Will

• Plan and implement communications strategies for projects, some of which are complex and involve a range of key stakeholders, for example joint communication plans.
• Commission, write, edit, proofread, co-ordinate internal and external publications, staff and patient resources and advice documents.
• Write press releases and articles for internal and external publications.
• Respond to media enquiries including briefing journalists.
• Provide and receive complex and sensitive information including giving communications, marketing and media advice to managers, staff and committees which influence to ensure staff give an appropriate communication approach.

This position will be primarily remote working with pre-planned attendance at Trust sites as required.

Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.

Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people’s lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Sunny Kalsy-Lillico Job title: Chief Psychological Professions Officer Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 0000000000

Julia Crisp – Business Support Officer to Dr Sunny Kalsy-Lillico. [email protected]