Are you passionate about leading a team that sources and helps share the inspiring and powerful stories of children and their families that come to Great Ormond Street Hospital?
The Family Stories team is integral in ensuring Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) Charity tell compelling stories and manage patient and family relationships in a thoughtful, responsible and efficient way.
The salary for the role is £45,211 pro rata and is a 12-month fixed term contract.
Key Responsibilities
Manage the day to day running of the Family Stories team. Work closely with GOSH families and ensure their stories are captured and managed in a thoughtful, compelling, and responsible way. Take an active role in strategy development and storytelling. Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Significant experience working with family stories. Experience leading a team. High emotional intelligence with the ability to manage family relationships effectively and compassionately. Strong storyteller. Experience developing a family story strategy. Collaborative. Exceptional relationship building skills. The Family Stories Manager takes a central role in working with a range of families and patients at any one time and ensuring that the stories we tell reflect the diversity of the hospital. If you’re an experienced Family Stories professional, then we want to hear from you. Closing Date
5th January 2025. Benefits
30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) A flexible approach to working arrangements. Access to our enhanced pension scheme. Life assurance. Access to various health and wellbeing schemes, including the employee assistance programme. About Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity
Every day brings new challenges at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). Every day, over 750 seriously ill children from across the UK arrive for life-changing treatments. Every day, young lives hang in the balance as patients, families and staff battle the most complex illnesses. And every day, the brightest minds come together to achieve pioneering medical breakthroughs that change the lives of thousands of children – and change the world. This extraordinary hospital has always depended on charitable support to give seriously ill children the best chance to fulfil their potential. Without donations, Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity can’t help fund ground-breaking research, advanced equipment, child and family support services, and the rebuilding and refurbishment of wards and medical facilities. Our staff help to raise and invest these vital funds at the hospital and within child health research nationally. A better future for seriously ill children starts with you. Along with being awarded the ‘Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2023’, we were delighted to be recently awarded the 'Charity Times Fundraising Team of the Year 2023.' Our commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
We believe that GOSH Charity and the charity sector more widely should reflect the diversity of patients, communities, and society at large. We also know that having a more diverse and inclusive workforce will make us more innovative, challenge the status quo, and enable us to deliver more impact. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. In particular, we encourage applications from those who are currently under represented within the charity sector as they may be marginalised by race and/or ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, long-term health conditions, or socioeconomic status. If you would like more information about our approach to inclusive hiring please see our Inclusive Hiring Page here. You can also find out more about our commitments to EDI within our EDI Strategy on our site. As a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer we are more than happy to make reasonable adjustments wherever possible throughout the recruitment process. For more information on this please contact us. Applications will be reviewed on an on-going basis and we reserve the right to close the role prior to the closing date, should a suitable applicant be found. Therefore, you are encouraged to apply right away, to avoid disappointment.
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Manage the day to day running of the Family Stories team. Work closely with GOSH families and ensure their stories are captured and managed in a thoughtful, compelling, and responsible way. Take an active role in strategy development and storytelling. Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Significant experience working with family stories. Experience leading a team. High emotional intelligence with the ability to manage family relationships effectively and compassionately. Strong storyteller. Experience developing a family story strategy. Collaborative. Exceptional relationship building skills. The Family Stories Manager takes a central role in working with a range of families and patients at any one time and ensuring that the stories we tell reflect the diversity of the hospital. If you’re an experienced Family Stories professional, then we want to hear from you. Closing Date
5th January 2025. Benefits
30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) A flexible approach to working arrangements. Access to our enhanced pension scheme. Life assurance. Access to various health and wellbeing schemes, including the employee assistance programme. About Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity
Every day brings new challenges at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). Every day, over 750 seriously ill children from across the UK arrive for life-changing treatments. Every day, young lives hang in the balance as patients, families and staff battle the most complex illnesses. And every day, the brightest minds come together to achieve pioneering medical breakthroughs that change the lives of thousands of children – and change the world. This extraordinary hospital has always depended on charitable support to give seriously ill children the best chance to fulfil their potential. Without donations, Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity can’t help fund ground-breaking research, advanced equipment, child and family support services, and the rebuilding and refurbishment of wards and medical facilities. Our staff help to raise and invest these vital funds at the hospital and within child health research nationally. A better future for seriously ill children starts with you. Along with being awarded the ‘Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2023’, we were delighted to be recently awarded the 'Charity Times Fundraising Team of the Year 2023.' Our commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
We believe that GOSH Charity and the charity sector more widely should reflect the diversity of patients, communities, and society at large. We also know that having a more diverse and inclusive workforce will make us more innovative, challenge the status quo, and enable us to deliver more impact. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. In particular, we encourage applications from those who are currently under represented within the charity sector as they may be marginalised by race and/or ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, long-term health conditions, or socioeconomic status. If you would like more information about our approach to inclusive hiring please see our Inclusive Hiring Page here. You can also find out more about our commitments to EDI within our EDI Strategy on our site. As a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer we are more than happy to make reasonable adjustments wherever possible throughout the recruitment process. For more information on this please contact us. Applications will be reviewed on an on-going basis and we reserve the right to close the role prior to the closing date, should a suitable applicant be found. Therefore, you are encouraged to apply right away, to avoid disappointment.
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