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NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is one of the largest healthcare systems in the UK employing around 40,000 staff in a wide range of clinical and non-clinical professions and job roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health care services to a population of over 1.15 million and a wider population of 2.2 million when our regional and national services are included.
This is a fulltime post of 37.5 hours.
West Dunbartonshire HSCP is seeking to appoint to an exciting and challenging role of Community Engagement and Development Officer within its Strategy and Transformation Team. The successful candidate will be joining a team responsible for a diversity of activity and where a shared passion exists to support the HSCP across all of its activities.
This post lead community engagement and development on behalf of HSCP in the delivery of its Strategic Plan 2023-2026 and other strategic and corporate objectives. Working with people who use services, senior leaders, managers, practitioners and other stakeholders, excellent partnership working skills and written and verbal communication skills will be required to ensure information and activities are accessible to a variety of audiences. Excellent listening, responding, negotiating and persuading skills will be required to create demonstrable impacts and progress.
With a relevant degree, the successful candidate will confidently draw upon their experience of working in a Local Authority or Health setting or similar and knowledge of community engagement standards, national guidance and quality assurance frameworks. The post holder will be able to deal sensitively with conflicting views and opinions, enabling effective communication and engagement across diverse groups from HSCP staff, elected members, public partners, service users, carers, and patients to campaigning community activists taking account of language barriers, disabilities, diverse communities and differing cultural needs.
Lead on delivery of the HSCP Board’s participation and engagement strategy by providing facilitation and guidance to meet the support requirements (current and future) of locality engagement arrangements and, as a partner, give support as appropriate to third sector, patient or specific care groups, demonstrating community development skills and processes to achieve these aims.
The HSCP is at a pivotal point in its work inasmuch as it has just recently approved its Strategic Plan for 2023-26 and sees community engagement and development as both an exciting and critical area to the success of the Plan.
If you’d like to be part of a team which shares your passion to improve outcomes for staff, service users and carers and to drive quality improvement across the HSCP, please refer to the job description and person specification for more details.
Contact details for informal contact: John Burns, 07880 472395, John.burns@west-dunbarton.gov.uk
Details on how to contact the Recruitment Service can be found within the Candidate Information Packs.
Due to the anticipated response to this post, it may close before the closing date noted on the advert. Once you start your application form please complete it immediately.
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