Events Officer

NHS AfC: Band 4

Main area: Charitable Events

Grade: NHS AfC: Band 4

Contract: Permanent

Hours:

• Full time
• Part time
• Job share
• Flexible working
• Compressed hours
• Term time hours
• Annualised hours

37.5 hours per week

Job ref: 349-COR-6866003

Site: Oxford Road Campus

Town: Manchester

Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 per annum, pro rata

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 11/03/2025 23:59

Job Overview

MFT Charity is excited to grow our team as we deliver transformational fundraising campaigns in support of our much-loved Manchester hospital charities, including Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, MRI and Wythenshawe Hospital. Now in year two of an eight-year growth strategy, we are looking for talented, passionate people who share our values.

This is a brilliant opportunity to make a real impact on our team as we continue to evolve our robust fundraising strategy.

We are committed to supporting our team in personal development. With a trust-based approach, we will readily consider flexible working patterns. With core hours of 10am – 4pm, most of our team choose to work on a hybrid home/office basis (with a bright, modern office at our Oxford Road site just south of Manchester City Centre). While we expect most people in the office at least two days per week, we welcome a conversation with you as we seek to recruit the best candidates.

Excellent Benefits Include

• NHS pension scheme
• 27 days annual leave, rising to 29 days after five years and 33 days after 10
• Access to Carer’s leave
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave
• Onsite nursery
• Eligibility for salary-sacrifice fleet car and cycle to work schemes
• Eligibility to purchase a Blue Light card and for many NHS discount schemes
• Initiatives by the MFT’s dedicated staff Health and Wellbeing team

Main Duties of the Job

The successful candidate will deliver a series of fundraising events capable of achieving an ambitious annual fundraising target for MFT Charity. You will take responsibility for the innovation, logistics, planning and analysis of specified events, ensuring they are delivered to a high standard. You will equip the wider charity team with tools for event recruitment and support with providing excellent supporter care.

Working for Our Organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

Person Specification

Experience

Essential Criteria

• Experience of working on a number of different events/projects simultaneously, ability to prioritise with excellent time management and planning skills
• Computer literate with advanced computer skills in Microsoft Word, Excel and
• Experience in using databases
• Experience in managing budgets for projects/events

Employer Certification / Accreditation Badges

Documents to Download

• Events Officer Job Description (PDF, 366.6KB)
• Events Officer Person Spec (PDF, 266.5KB)
• Functional requirements form v8 (PDF, 1000.2KB)
• Candidate Essential Guide Non Medical (PDF, 1.3MB)

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Further Details / Informal Visits Contact

Name: Viv Williamson

Job Title: Senior Manager - Events

Email Address: viv.williamson@mft.nhs.uk

Telephone Number: 0161 276 4522