Public Engagement Officer

Salary: starting from £30,000 + benefits (Permanent role. Full or part time from 4 days a week. )

Location: Hybrid – both remote, agile working, and in-person time in our offices at 41 Portland Place, London 

Closing date: 17.00 BST, Thursday 13 October

Are you passionate about involving patients and the public in decisions and actions to improve people’s health?

We’re looking for a Public Engagement Officer to join our small, friendly team and help us deliver a wide range of projects and programmes, with a focus on lessons learnt from the COVID pandemic, and developing new workstreams on health inequalities, particularly in child and parental health.

Reporting to the Public Engagement Manager, the Public Engagement Officer will help deliver our mission of meaningfully involving patients and the public across Academy activities and in the way we work.

We’re looking for someone with the energy and passion to champion diversity and inclusion across Academy engagement activities, who lives our values of kindness and agility, and thrives on finding ways to make things run better.

Your skills and experience might come from an interest in science and health gained through study, volunteering, or a previous job. Alternatively, you may come from a lived experience perspective, having participated in involvement or advocacy work as a patient or carer, and looking to build that experience into your career.

Click here to download Job Statement - Public Engagement Officer (Sep22)

Click here to apply

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Public Engagement Officer recruitment: what to expect from us 

We understand how much time, effort and personal investment goes into job applications and interviews. We really appreciate you applying for this role and  this is what you can expect from us:

Before you apply

• We want our job statement to be as accessible as possible. We hope things are laid out clearly and we’ve tried to avoid jargon. Just let us know if there are terms that need explaining, or if we can provide the information in a more accessible way, such as a larger print copy.

While you are applying

• We ask for a CV and cover letter - the cover letter gives you a chance to demonstrate your ability to do the job, the CV helps us understand your previous work or education experience. 
  We don’t need long pages of text - keep it brief and focus on examples. If writing a cover letter is difficult for you, give us a call to see if you could cover this in another format, such as submitting a short video 
  We don’t expect applicants to have done it all! Don’t let the things you haven’t done put you off applying. We offer lots of training and we want roles at the Academy to build people’s skills for the future. 
• When we assess your application
  Our assessments will focus on the ‘Key accountabilities’ and ‘Skills and Abilities’ listed in the job statement. If you can reference them in your application, that helps us pick out your most relevant skills. 

Inviting you for interview

• For this role, we are holding online interviews. We want these interviews to be as accessible as possible, so please let us know if you need any adjustments or support. For example, if you are neurodiverse, we are happy to allow more time for your interview and will work to make sure our questions are clear and concise. If you have children at home or other caring responsibilities, you can request an interview time that works for your commitments.
• Our interviews are a friendly chat – we’re a nice bunch and we know you are interviewing us as much as we are interviewing you! There are no trick questions and we are not trying to catch you out. We want you to be as relaxed as possible. If you want to pause and take a breath, or to go back to something later, let us know.
• Interview questions – we want our questions to bring out your ability to do the job, not your ability to answer questions quickly. For that reason, and to relieve some of the interview anxieties we all feel, we’ll send you the interview questions an hour beforehand, so you have time to think of your best examples. For neurodiverse candidates, or those with other needs, we can send them earlier - just let us know when we invite you for interview. 

We welcome feedback on our approach to this recruitment, please let us know your comments and ideas or if you have any other questions about the role [email protected]