Job summary
- Main area
- Grants, Delivery & Impact Officer
- Grade
- 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-7420462JN
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cobalt
- Town
- North Shields
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Grants, Delivery and Impact Officer
6
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Grants, Delivery & Impact officer to join Bright Northumbria Charity Team.
This role will support the development of Bright Charity charitable funds, grant processes, liaising and coordinating with departments, managing projects (such as the volunteer service and environment refurbishments) and measuring/demonstrating the impact made by the charity.
Bright Northumbria charity brand was launched in 2012 and over the years has established itself within our communities, gaining traction across the region.
Bright funds those things that the NHS does not, including better facilities for patients and their families and support for our staff allowing them to provide the best care that you need.
Some examples of how Bright makes a difference;
- Enhancing the patient experience through providing additional therapies, services and comforts
- Supporting staff health and wellbeing
- Developing special areas to step away from the busy clinical environment
- Providing state of the art medical equipment
- Investing in staff training and research to improve treatments and care
- Supporting projects in our community to improve health and wellbeing
Main duties of the job
Supports the development of Bright Charity charitable funds, grant processes, liaising and coordinating with departments, managing projects (such as the volunteer service and environment refurbishments) and measuring/demonstrating impact made by charitable funding.
Supports the development, organisation and management of voluntary services in the Trust.
Responsible for the recruitment, training and placement of volunteers in hospitals in the Trust.
Responsible for the day to day issues concerning voluntary organisations working on Trust premises.
Responsible for establishing effective policies and procedures relating to Trust volunteers.
Implementing the grants, delivery and impact strategy which aligns with the overarching charity strategy.
Building close links with staff of all levels throughout the organisation and building relationships both internally and externally.
Support the Grants, Delivery and Impact Manager meet agreed fund spending targets and delivering against this.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Supports the development and management of grants, delivery and impact strategies and campaigns in line with the charity’s aims and objectives.
Responsible for the processes of accepting grant applications into the charity from both internal NHS departments and external organisations.
Responsible for day to day management of key projects such as the volunteer service and environment refurbishments.
Management of the volunteer service including line management of volunteer service staff.
To build relationships with teams throughout the trust to develop efficient and appropriate spending plans in support of enhancing healthcare services whilst spending charitable funds appropriately alongside the charities registered purposes.
Implement effective fund stewardship strategies and plan engagement to develop and maintain relationships and loyalty and increase interaction from staff throughout the organization in accessing funds.
To support the establishment processes around due diligence, monitoring and evaluation, financial procedures, recording and monitoring of grants.
Build and develop effective relationships across the Charity and the Trust.
Support and develop events when required.
Develop meaningful engagement with Trust staff, increasing awareness and understanding of the Charity’s aims and objectives.
Support communications in telling compelling and compassionate stories that bring the work of Bright Northumbria Healthcare Charity to life and to a broader audience.
Support the development of professional standards of grants giving, delivering projects and measuring of the charity and volunteer impact across the Bright Charity team.
Undertake conversations with supporters with compassion and sensitivity
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or possess equivalent experience in addition to significant experience of working within the charity field and knowledge of the relevant charity legislation and governance.
- In addition to degree level of knowledge the post holder will have management knowledge and experience.
Experience
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools.
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools.
- Knowledge and experience of working within the charity sector
- Knowledge and experience of charitable grant giving
- Knowledge and experience of managing or working within a volunteer service
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Robert Graham
- Job title
- Head of Bright Charity
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07717858890
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