The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) aims to improve patient care and reduce illness, in the UK and across the globe. We are patient centred and clinically led. Our 30,000 members worldwide work in hospitals and the community across 30 different medical specialties, diagnosing and treating millions of patients with a huge range of medical conditions.
If you have a gift for building and managing strategic relationships with key stakeholders including ministers, Parliamentarians and leaders in health, you could play a leading role in maintaining and developing the RCP’s work to improve the quality of patient care in the UK.
As public affairs adviser, you will manage the RCP’s strategic engagement programme to influence the health agenda. Working across all aspects of health you will advise the RCP on to influence the health agenda to improve patient care. The public affairs adviser will work particularly closely with the RCP’s ground breaking Future Hospital Programme to promote new models of care.
The public affairs adviser will:
- Identify and engage with decision makers in the NHS and health sector and government to influence policy decisions and outcomes;
- Provide advice and insight to the RCP’s president, chief executive and other senior officers on engagement and strategies for promoting policy objectives;
- Brief and advise senior members of staff on complex policy issues prior to meetings and high profile events;
- Translate the RCP’s policy positions and recommendations into influencing successes.
The RCP is looking for an individual with experience of working in a similar role, managing complex stakeholder relationships. You must have experience of communicating across a variety of different media. Knowledge of NHS structures would be an advantage.
The RCP offers excellent benefits, including generous leave, a first-class pension scheme, 35 hour week, free staff restaurant, season ticket loan (after probation) and much more.