# Recognition and engagement officer > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/recognition-and-engagement-officer/e3f39c44-7483-4808-8e72-0d3f83f3071c - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/recognition-and-engagement-officer/e3f39c44-7483-4808-8e72-0d3f83f3071c.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Basingstoke - **Region:** South East - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Administrative and IT - **Grade:** Band 4 - **Salary:** £28,392 - £31,157 per annum pro-rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Flexible and hybrid working) - **Closing date:** 2026-07-12T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-26T12:52:16.700Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Hampshire/Basingstoke/Hampshire_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Communications/Communications-v8103206 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8103206?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.hampshirehospitals.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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 ## Job Details 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. ## Job Description 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. ## 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 ## Documents - [hhft employee rewards & benefits (pdf, 723.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=900) - [recognition and engagement officer jd & ps (pdf, 908.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10398422) - [tackling climate change at hampshire hospitals (pdf, 4.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2900) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.