Fundraising Manager

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Fundraising Manager to join the Bright Northumbria Healthcare Charity Team. The charity manages a wide range of activities and projects that make a positive difference to the experience of our patients and staff. This includes the Northumbria Voluntary Service (NVS), hospital environment projects, our healing arts programme whilst also enhancing and bringing a bit of 'brightness' to patients, staff and our community. Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides healthcare to more than 500,000 people across North Tyneside and Northumberland. Bright funds those things that the NHS does not, including better facilities for patients and their families and support for our staff allowing them to provide the best care that you need. Some examples of how Bright makes a difference;

• Enhancing the patient experience through providing additional therapies, services and comforts
• Supporting staff health and wellbeing
• Developing special areas to step away from the busy clinical environment
• Providing state of the art medical equipment
• Investing in staff training and research to improve treatments and care
• Supporting projects in our community to improve health inequalities
This role will be integral in leading on maintaining and increasing the charities income streams to enable us to fulfil our purposes. This role will also play a key part in the charities senior leadership team., Responsible for leading and helping to grow the charities fundraising team and function, responsibilities will cover areas such as community fundraising, individual giving, events, partnerships, in memory, legacies, grants and trusts. Responsible for developing and implementing a fundraising strategy which aligns with the overarching charity strategy. Lead on building a supporter base, partnerships and building relationships both internally and externally. Responsible for meeting agreed fundraising targets and delivering against an agreed return on investment (RoI).

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.