Communications and Engagement Officer

Main area Communications and Engagement Officer Grade Band 5 Contract 12 months (Fixed term, Maternity cover until 30th April 2027) Hours

• Part time
• Flexible working
• Home or remote working

Employer Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Trust HQ - Redesmere Town Chester Salary £31,049 - £37,796 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 24/03/2026 23:59 Interview date 08/04/2026

Are you an enthusiastic communicator with a creative flair and a passion for developing engaging content? Join us for a fixed-term maternity cover opportunity to develop your skills, knowledge, and experience within a friendly, forward-thinking NHS communications team.

Working with a team of experienced communications professionals, you will be supported through training, skill sharing and mentoring in all areas of communications, marketing, and engagement.

With access to a range of professional tools, you’ll have the chance to use your creativity to bring our messages to life and support us to achieve our communications objectives.

The role will be broad, and you’ll be getting involved with a bit of everything day-to-day, but you’ll also have the chance to develop your skills in any areas of interest you may have, such as social media, web development, graphic design, and videography.

Ideally, you will have a good understanding of internal and external communications channels, experience of writing content for a range of channels and an eye for design – the most important thing is that you are enthusiastic, adaptable, and quick to learn.

We’re a busy, fast-paced team but we always support each other, welcome fresh ideas and most importantly, we are able to add real value with the work we do.

This post is part time 30 hours per week, fixed term until 30th April 2027.

Shortlisting for this vacancy is due to commence on 25/03/2026 and the proposed interview date is 08/04/2026.

The successful candidate will provide specialist communications and engagement support to the Trust. Please refer to the downloadable job description for full details.

• Gather information from both CWP and wider sources to inform reactive and proactive communications and engagement to support good reputation management and generating positive news stories.
• Adapt ideas/messages/plans into simple and engaging content for multiple channels and audiences including social media, print, web, newsletters and other publications such as posters, flyers, leaflets.
• Develop outline action plans and provide general advice and support to stakeholders on messaging, implementation and monitoring progress/outcomes.
• Collaborate and partner with colleagues in services, service users, patients and carers to maintain good relationships and to proactively identify communications and engagement opportunities.
• Promote meaningful engagement of stakeholders to develop a culture of real involvement throughout the Trust – from design, development to delivery.
• Undertake photography shoots and editing for use internally and externally.
• Undertake basic videography/audio recording and editing for use internally and externally.
• Support Trust event co-ordination.
• Contribute to the conceptual development and production of design and branding requests as part of projects, in line with the departmentals strategy.

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP) provides health and care services for a population of over one million people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care, as well as the provision of three GP surgeries in Cheshire.

We employ around 4,500 staff across 73 sites and have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton, Liverpool and Stockport.

Our aim is to help improve the lives of everyone in our communities, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We are rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission, with a Good rating overall.

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