Communications and Public Affairs Manager

Liverpool Health Partners is the Academic Health Science System for the Liverpool City Region. It is a membership-led organisation comprising of 10 academic and NHS partners.

LHP convenes across, and advocates on behalf of, its member organisations and the excellence they represent. We have a mandate from the universities and NHS Trusts which are our members, to work across the health and life sciences sector in the region and, together, deliver health, economic and societal benefit.

This post is integral to the success of Liverpool Health Partners and by extension to the city region’s ambition in research and innovation across the health and life sciences sector. It will require a talented and highly motivated post-holder who can provide leadership and expertise in the following areas:

1. Planning and delivering of LHP strategic programmes and communications function and public affairs services of the highest quality.
2. Help to grow the LHP Brand and deliver maximum value for the Partners and the Liverpool City Region, ensuring that the direction of travel is understood by, and remains relevant to, all key stakeholders.
3. Work collaboratively with partners’ comms teams, commercial partners, provider organisations, local and central government, to deliver the LHP strategic priorities.

1. Provide strategic comms support.
2. Lead on public affairs and advocacy for LHP.
3. Lead on the development of a compelling narrative.
4. Ensure that member organisations are bought into the process.
5. Mobilise and present, to regional and national stakeholders.
6. Develop and sustain high-quality professional relationships.
7. Connect LHP to the wider comms and public affairs sectors.
8. Assess the requirements for internal and external contributions to comms strategies.
9. Convene and provide authoritative leadership.
10. Be alert to the political and organisational sensitivities of partnership working.
11. Oversee the delivery of high-quality and high-profile events.
12. Take responsibility for the website, newsletters, social media and stakeholder mapping and management.
13. Managing and developing staff.
14. Produce regular performance management reports to the LHP board.
15. Oversee budgets.
16. Provide leadership and example in creating the optimal culture for LHP.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust. The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

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1. Strategic comms (40%)
2. Public affairs (20%)
3. Supporting specific initiatives and events (15%)
4. Operational oversight (15%)
5. Managing and developing staff (10%)

The post-holder will take ownership of all areas of comms and public affairs activity, identifying and pursuing opportunities that form a portfolio in their own right, with delegated authority from the MD. They will act as a senior representative and ambassador for LHP, locally, regionally, and nationally.