External Relations Officer - Policy and Public Affairs
Starting salary: £30,000-34,000pa depending on experience, plus excellent benefits
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time (open to a conversation about flexible working options, including reduced hours or 4 days compressed working pattern)
Closing date: 30 September 2024
Interview date: 15 October 2024
If you have a passion for policy and public affairs this is an exciting opportunity to join their dynamic, growing mental health charity as their new External Relations Officer. You will play a key part in helping them to strengthen the mental health workforce and make a positive impact on people’s lives.
Our client supports people living with mental health needs by supporting a strong and thriving mental health workforce. They are experts in recruitment, professional training and leadership development for mental health practitioners in the NHS and local communities, ensuring the right people can deliver the right support at the right time.
Through their flagship programme they have recruited and trained 1,000 mental health social workers to date, and they are extending their reach to ensure that they can support NHS and other employers to recruit and retain key people right across the mental health workforce.
As the External Relations Officer you will:
Ensure the organisation has a good understanding of relevant policy and sector developments, and that they are aware of opportunities to influence.
Work with key internal groups to keep developing their understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing the mental health workforce.
Support the organisation to identify and build relationships with key external stakeholders.
Help to build their profile as sector workforce experts by generating content such as blogs, and by identifying speaking opportunities for their internal specialists.
They are looking for someone with good communications instincts who is passionate about policy and public affairs, and has a ‘can-do’ attitude and a desire to learn and develop. They don’t need you to be highly experienced in all three areas (communications, policy and public affairs), they are happy to work with the right candidate to develop your skills and experience.
They offer a supportive working environment which include hybrid working practices. They expect staff to work from the office at least one or two days per week (which ideally includes Tuesdays) and the remaining days can be worked from home.
They offer excellent employee benefits, including generous annual leave entitlement, plus additional office closure over Christmas, enhanced family friendly leave, flexible working around their core hours of 10am to 4pm, a matched pension scheme with up 7% employer contributions, an employee assistance programme and more.
If this sounds like the just the opportunity and challenge you’ve been looking for to complement your skills and experience, they look forward to receiving your application.
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