Communications and Engagement Officer (Research and Innovation)

Job overview

At Sheffield Children’s research and innovation is integral to our future and it’s been at our core since our founding in 1876.

Over the past 150 years, we have led the way in paediatric care, developing innovative approaches to treating children as we pursue our mission to provide healthier futures for children and young people.

Excellence in research ensures the best healthcare outcomes for children.

Over the next 5 years Sheffield Children’s will:

• Grow research to rank among the world's paediatric research centres
• Become a UK leader in healthcare innovation, digital health, and child health technologies
• Build the National Centre for Child Health Technology uniting researchers, businesses, healthcare professionals, young people families and funders to tackle major healthcare challenges
• Develop technologies addressing national priorities in child health including prevention, health inequalities, childhood obesity, mental health, cancer, disabilities, and long-term conditions

We are committed to fully integrating research and innovation across the Trust, ensuring everyone understands its importance and has opportunities to take part.

Main duties of the job

In this post you will develop and lead on delivery of communication and engagement for Research across Sheffield Children’s. Working closely with the Research and Innovation team, you will develop the communications activity for research, leading on dynamic, relevant and engaging promotion of research for colleagues, the public, donors and key stakeholders.

Building successful awareness raising and engagement activity, you will raise patient participation and colleague engagement in research amongst our diverse colleague base. You will build measurement into everything you do, testing and adapting as you go.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and person specification for full details of the role.

Inclusive Recruitment & Selection

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and accurate data capture is an important part of that to ensure we are supportive and representative. Our aim is to ensure that all applicants can see themselves in the available categories on our application form, but we recognise that some of our data capture fields are not inclusive. We have flagged this with our system provider to ask for change.

We offer encouragement and active support to applicants with additional needs, including those from ethnic minorities, with disabilities and members of the LGBTQ+ community. If you wish to adjust any aspect of the recruitment process or wish to find out more about our recruitment & selection processes, please get in touch with our Recruitment Manager: [email protected]

We are continually reviewing our recruitment & selection process to support the long-term aim of Sheffield Children’s being a champion of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. If you have any ideas for improvement, please get in touch with Catherine Gilbert at [email protected]

Trust Values

The Trust is committed to providing great quality patient care and keep children, young people and families at the heart of what we do by following our CARE values:

• Compassion – leading by kindness and showing empathy, understanding and respect
• Accountability – striving to do the right thing and owning responsibility
• Respect – value differences, tackling inequality and fostering a culture of inclusion
• Excellence – delivering a high-quality standard of care