Job summary

The Engagement Manager will coordinate and deliver engagement activities that support the ICB's strategic priorities. The postholder will manage projects that involve patients, carers, and communities in shaping services, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements and best practice standards. They will design and facilitate workshops, surveys, and consultations, working closely with internal teams and external partners to gather meaningful insights. This role requires strong organisational skills, creativity, and the ability to communicate effectively with diverse audiences. The Engagement Manager will play a key role in ensuring that engagement activity is inclusive, impactful, and aligned with the ICB's ambition to deliver person-centred care and system transformation.

Main duties of the job

Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, the postholder provides professional and supportive leadership, ensures operational delivery, and contributes to service improvement and transformation.

The responsibilities include:

• Operational Management: Management of a defined service or programme area, ensuring that agreed objectives, standards, and outcomes are achieved.
• Performance and Delivery: Produce regular reports, updates, and briefings to support assurance and decision-making by senior colleagues, including the analysis of complex data that may come from several sources.
• Quality and Improvement: Champion a culture of quality and improvement. Use data, evidence, and feedback to drive enhancements in quality, safety, and experience and shape actions and plans to adapt to stakeholder requirements.
• Team Leadership and Development: Provide line management for staff within your area, ensuring clarity of roles, effective communication, and opportunities for development.
• Resource and Budget Awareness: Effectively manage resources within delegated limits.
• Partnership and Collaboration: Build strong working relationships with colleagues, clinical teams, and system partners.
• Governance and Accountability: Ensure services operate in line with statutory, regulatory, and organisational requirements.

About us

We are committed to promoting equal opportunities to achieve equity of access, experience and outcomes and to recognising and valuing people's differences. We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity; we see this as a strength and part of our founding mission, values and behaviours. We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers patient outcomes.

We are committed to creating the best place to work, where your contribution is valued, your wellbeing is supported and all our colleagues can reach their full potential. We welcome and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of their protected characteristic. We work to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible to everyone, including making adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition and support with the recruitment process for people with lived experience.

We are happy to discuss flexible working options for all roles.

We operate a Carer friendly working environment that is supportive and inclusive. We actively encourage Carers to self-identify themselves.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and commit to shortlisting suitable applicants who meet the essential criteria for an interview. Please inform us of any adjustments you may require.