Partnerships & Engagement Officer in Mansfield

The successful candidate will support the delivery of the ABL Community Engagement Strategy to promote IWS, working closely with ABL's communications team to raise the profile of the service across the local community. The role will involve building and maintaining strong relationships with local services, stakeholders, GP practices, Primary Care Networks (PCNs), and wider referral partners to increase awareness, strengthen referral pathways, and support co‑production opportunities.

The postholder will organise and attend meetings, health forums, and community events to represent ABL and promote IWS, including delivering presentations and awareness sessions to small and medium‑sized groups. Working collaboratively with operational colleagues and the wider Nottinghamshire IWS team, the role will support referral management, service delivery, and ongoing service development through monitoring, evaluation, and stakeholder feedback.

Responsibilities will also include maintaining partnership databases, contributing to reports and engagement updates, supporting communication campaigns and public events, and helping to identify innovative approaches to service promotion and engagement. Flexibility will be required to support occasional weekend events and provide cover during periods of sickness or annual leave where necessary.

You will be expected to engage at neighbourhood and place level to increase referrals into the IWS and build long‑lasting relationships with local partners. This will involve being responsible for developing and maintaining strong, positive and long‑lasting relationships with a wide range of stakeholder groups, including but not limited to local authority, primary and secondary care, leisure services, and the community and voluntary sector.

You will be a motivated, passionate, organised and proactive communicator, with experience working in a community setting. ABL takes a strengths-focused asset‑based approach to community delivery, looking to innovate and partner, not replicate existing delivery. The role will require dynamic working which embraces the vision and values we wish to establish for the IWS supporting people to achieve healthy lives.

This is a demanding job, but you will not be on your own. ABL's highly experienced and friendly multi‑disciplinary team of Health and Social Care professionals, Business Intelligence, Service Development, Governance, Finance and Business Development are there to support. Additionally, existing experienced delivery teams will be available to support you to drive the Service forward.

This post will work under the line management of Your Health Notts Partnerships and Engagement Manager. The role will be varied, challenging and rewarding as you support and develop the service through implementation, delivery and ongoing innovation and service development.

• Implementing the ABL Community Engagement Strategy to promote IWS
• Working with ABL's communication team to help raise the profile of IWS
• Engaging local services and partners to ensure local awareness and explore partnership opportunities and co‑production activities
• Working closely with operational colleagues to manage the referral rates and develop partnerships with all potential referrers in your locality
• Organising/attending GP practice/PCN meetings to promote IWS and sustain referral pathways
• Attending local health forums/groups/meetings on a regular basis where required to represent ABL, promote IWS and maintain local partnerships
• Working collaboratively with all members of the Nottinghamshire IWS team and undertaking work in other areas when necessary, including occasional delivery support
• Supporting the monitoring and evaluation of the service and using formal and informal feedback to constructively shape and develop the service
• Updating the partnership database with all contacts including required follow up contact and strategic developments required
• Attending all relevant team meetings including district team meetings and community engagement meetings providing engagement updates and contributing to quarterly reports as directed
• Reporting against relevant targets, providing regular updates as requested on progress of project
• Supporting with communications strategies to promote the service and capture referrals
• Innovative and open minded to new ideas and piloting of different sessions
• Supporting all co‑production activities with local residents and stakeholders to support ongoing development of the service
• Ability to cover sessions as and when required due to sickness or annual leave

Skills and Competencies Required:

• Be experienced in community engagement and partnership working in a community health environment
• Experience of building and maintaining partnerships from scratch
• Positive and proactive with the ability to motivate, engage and support partnership delivery
• Adept in communication; a confident and approachable communicator who adapts the message to fit the needs of the audience
• Build strong relationships; foster trust and co‑operation among colleagues, stakeholders, community leaders, commissioners and sub‑contractors
• Quality driven; naturally seek high standards and actively seek to improve them

Please note that we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

Experience:

• Experience of working in a community setting
• Experience of working in a health care environment
• Demonstrable experience of partnership working
• Demonstrable experience of speaking to large groups
• Experience in a leadership role
• Previous experience of delivering training programmes
• Experience of delivering focus groups
• Experience of public speaking
• Experience of partnership working/collaborating with various different organisations
• The ability to travel independently across Nottinghamshire and as required to ABL Health HQ in Greater Manchester
• Work flexibly and adapt to suit service need

Qualifications:

• Degree and/or equivalent experience in community healthcare, psychology, behaviour change

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 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.