Senior Engagement Officer

About The Role

The NHS Employers National Engagement Service is looking for a senior engagement officer to enable and assist the engagement manager to develop design and deliver network activities. As a senior engagement officer you will:

• Use a range of engagement and communication tools to forward plan deliver and support participation in meetings/events that enable stakeholders to progress key priorities.

• Have oversight of all team activities to provide prompts and outline drafts in relation to planning delivery follow up actions and note-taking comms resources briefings attendance and evaluation.

• Summarise information and identify trends in a timely manner and work with the engagement manager and Assistant Director to identify insights and themes for potential product and policy development.

• Ensure that effective and timely communications are delivered to stakeholders and signposting to relevant resources.

About You

You will have an understanding of the key workforce issues facing NHS trusts and interested in enabling the NHS to support their workforce by being the best employers they can be. We would like to hear from you if you are looking to build on your existing knowledge and skills including:

• Experience of using a variety of communication and engagement tools to develop and support engaging communications and events.

• Experience of using organisation and project management skills to proactively coordinate a range of meeting secretariat and logistical tasks with tight deadlines. Managing conflicting priorities to ensure follow up actions are communicated and deadlines are met.

• Experience of stakeholder engagement session facilitation and delivering presentations.

• Experience of producing written briefings reports and webpage content.

• Experience of evaluating activity.

• A high level of proficiency working with a range of digital programmes to support engagement and evaluation activities.

How to Apply

To find out more about NHS Employers please see About us NHS Employers

Unfortunately we are currently unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role. Applicants must therefore have a valid right to work in the UK which will be required at the point of offer.

For an informal conversation about this role please contact:

Becky Tasker Engagement Manager East of England Midlands and South West

Application Closing Date: 7 October 202611:59pm(Please note we may close the advert early should we receive a high number of suitable applications).

Interview Dates: 22 and 23 October 2026

The NHS Alliance is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive environment for our staff. A place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We offer a range of inclusive employment policies including family friendly policies and flexible working and we have range of channels to support staff from different backgrounds including our fantastic staff EDI networks and trade unions.

The NHS Alliance is committed to being a flexible employer. We understand the value and benefit to our employees being able to work flexibly and our agile working principles are designed to empower our people to work with optimal flexibility and minimal constraints to enable them to fulfil their potential at work whilst balancing home life and health and wellbeing.

You will receive an excellent benefits package including 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) options to buy or sell additional leave continuous professional development salary sacrifice schemes including our pension scheme cycle to work and green car schemes time off for volunteering and much more.