Associate Director of Communications and Stakeholder Engagement

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Assistant Director of Communications and Stakeholder Engagement to join our communications senior leadership team. In this pivotal role, you will shape and execute our communications strategy, enhancing our public profile and ensuring clear, effective messaging across all of our internal and external channels. You will be committed to bringing our values to life, producing exceptional communication campaigns and a collaborative leader that can build relationships and inspire their team. You will also be confident working in a complex and fast paced environment with high levels of public and media scrutiny.,

• To oversee the development, delivery and evaluation of the Trust's communications strategy, and stakeholder and community engagement plan, that support the Trust's strategic objectives and build the Trust's reputation as a leading organisation within the NHS
• To ensure that relationships with key stakeholders are maintained and proactively developed
• To oversee the development and delivery of communications and engagement plans to support major trust-wide projects, providing leadership and expert advice
• To work with senior managers to identify and develop communications campaigns to support the organisation in meeting its strategic objectives
• To ensure that all communications materials and channels help build the Trust's reputation as a leading organisation within the NHS, that they are correctly tailored for the appropriate target audiences, including hard to reach audiences, and are in line with the Trust's overall communications strategy
• To ensure the Trust brand and visual identity are developed and protected, including supporting other staff in the correct application of corporate style guidelines, ensuring compliance and addressing inconsistencies
• To ensure the organisational internal and external channels are kept up-to-date with the relevant information from the clinical programmes and workstreams
• To develop and maintain the Trust's Trust and Reputation dashboard and provide analysis
  
  We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family.
We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at South London and Maudsley. It's important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer. Some of our benefits include:
• Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package, which is dependent on the role and length of service
• Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing
• Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
• Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease carsAccommodation, our staff benefits from key-worker housing available which is available on selected sites
NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website. Other benefits include:
• Counselling services
• Wellbeing events
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Childcare vouchers
• Staff restaurants