Job overview
We’re looking for someone who can bring real energy, creativity and fresh thinking to this role. You’ll love working with people, spotting and celebrating great work, and finding new and innovative ways to say “thank you” across our Trust.
In this role, you’ll lead and shape our recognition programme, helping to create an environment where people feel valued, supported and proud of what they do. You’ll play a key part in strengthening our culture of appreciation, making recognition meaningful, visible and part of everyday life at the Trust.
This role is working as part of a really flexible, agile, empowered and creative team.
Main duties of the job
As part of the Communications team, the post holder will work with the wider team to promote the reward and recognition programmes, award nominations, winners and identify good news stories to promote the difference people in Hampshire Hospitals make.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Reward and Recognition
- Managing the formal reward and recognition programme
- Evaluating and proposing future development and improvements for the schemes, gathering and acting on feedback
- Developing communications activities in relation to reward and recognition
- Delivering the recognition programmes within budget.
- Working with diversity and inclusion leads and the Communications team to increase diversity in award nominations and ensuring an equitable judging process
The ICARE Awards
- Manage the ICARE Awards including:
- Creating and maintaining the ICARE Awards area of the public website, with support of the wider Communications team
- Corresponding with HR, quality leads and senior managers to approve awards
- Issuing awards with personalised letters from the CEO
- Supporting divisional teams with presentations
- Undertaking administrative tasks relating to the ICARE Awards
- Being the first point of contact for ICARE awards
- Working with the Communications Team to promote the Awards, ensuring that nomination periods and winners are communicated, and any interesting stories are highlighted and shared
- Feeding the ICARE Awards into the annual awards judging panel at the end of the year
- Arranging and managing the judging panel, ensuring all nominations are available for judging prior to the panel
Long Service Awards
- Working with Employment relations, manage the Long Service Awards including:
- Actively collecting information from HR department of individuals due to receive award
- Undertaking administrative tasks relating to the Long Service Awards
- Issuing personalised rewards and letters signed by CEO
- Responsible for dealing with, and the security of, confidential information about staff
- Sharing long service achievements through Communications channels and promoting long service programme with support of Communications team
Annual Awards
- As the Trust lead for the delivery of the recognition programme, supporting the Annual Awards ceremony including:
- Arranging and supporting the judging panel, ensuring all nominations are available for judging prior to the panel
- Overseeing key project documents such as timelines, budget etc
- Undertaking administrative tasks relating to the Annual Awards ceremony
- Liaising with the venue and stakeholders to deliver requirements
- Assisting with on the day event coordination
- This part of the role will include some evening work
Communications
- Working with the wider Communications team to develop communication activities that cross over with the remit of the post holder
- Supporting wider engagement and recognition communications activities undertaken by the team to improve the working experience
- Supporting communications activities as required eg. corporate events
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in an employee experience, engagement or recognition role
- Experience of using social media and web platforms
Desirable
- Able to manipulate data, mail merging, etc. using excel
Skills and ability
Essential
- Self motivated, self-starter, able to organise a large and varied work programme
- Able to provide innovative solutions to problems
Other role specific requirements
Essential
- Ability to travel for meetings across our sites Basingstoke / Winchester / Andover
Desirable
- Be able to demonstrate an understanding of the principles of equality, diversity, and inclusion and how they apply to staff and patients in a healthcare setting
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This advert is for Recognition and engagement officer with Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Basingstoke, South East, England. It is listed as a Band 4 Administrative and IT role. The advertised salary is £28,392 - £31,157 per annum pro-rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 12 Jul 2026.
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