Community Engagement and Event Planner

Brownlow Group Practice; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Liverpool is seeking a Community Engagement and Event Planner to lead initiatives that strengthen relationships with local communities. This role involves mapping community assets, coordinating events, and ensuring high-quality delivery, with an emphasis on promoting health and wellbeing. The ideal candidate should have experience in community engagement, excellent organizational skills, and a strong knowledge of health inequalities. A competitive salary between £31,049 and £37,796 is offered, depending on experience.

Benefits

Protected study leave with financial allowance

Comprehensive mentorship and induction programme

Qualifications

• Experience in planning and delivering community events.
• Experience in community engagement or event planning.
• Knowledge of health inequalities and personalized care.
• Experience in NHS or healthcare setting.
• Understanding of safeguarding.

Responsibilities

• Map community assets and existing relationships to inform engagement strategy.
• Develop a calendar of events reflecting diverse populations and national campaigns.
• Collaborate with healthcare teams to deliver events.
• Take responsibility for delivery of the events.
• Engage community leaders to maximize participation.
• Liaise with partners to secure resources.
• Promote events through social media.
• Prepare event proposals including KPIs and budgets.
• Write post-event reports summarizing outcomes.

Skills

Strong organisational and communication skills

Ability to manage budgets

Ability to work under pressure

Education

Proficient in Microsoft Office/Microsoft 365

Job description

To lead community engagement initiatives and planevents, including annual Freshers, that strengthen relationships with localcommunities, align with national campaigns, and promote Brownlow Health as atrusted organisation.

Main duties of the job

The Community Engagement and Event Planner plays a central role in strengthening relationships between the organisation and the diverse communities it serves. This position is responsible for designing, coordinating, and delivering a strategic programme of events that promote health, wellbeing, and community participation. By mapping local assets, building strong partnerships, and ensuring highquality event delivery, the postholder supports the organisations wider engagement objectives and contributes to improved population health outcomes.

A key responsibility of the role is to map community assets and existing relationships to inform a targeted and effective engagement strategy. This includes identifying local groups, leaders, venues, and networks that can support outreach efforts and enhance event participation. Using this insight, the postholder will develop an annual calendar of events that reflects the needs of diverse populations, aligns with national health campaigns, and supports organisational priorities.

The Community Engagement and Event Planner works collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams, including the lead nurse, social prescribing link workers, health coaches, and care coordinators, to ensure events are relevant, accessible, and impactful. The postholder takes full responsibility for the planning, coordination, and delivery of each event, ensuring all logistical, operational, and engagement elements are executed to a high standard.

About us

Brownlow is proud to be an exceptional employer, offering strong support for staff wellbeing through a dedicated wellbeing team and a wide range of benefits and incentives. These include protected study leave with a financial allowance and a comprehensive six-month mentorship and induction programme.

We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion, and aim for our workforce to reflect the diverse community we serve. We actively encourage applications from individuals who identify as having protected characteristics, particularly those with linguistic diversity, members of the LGBTQ+ community, people from Black, minority ethnic or minority faith backgrounds, and those who are disabled and/or neurodiverse. We recognise that structural and systemic barriers may discourage some groups from applying, and we welcome feedback on any such barriers so we can work to address them.

Extended access sessions will form part of your contracted hours. If you are successful at interview and are registered with any Brownlow practice, you will be required to change practices as a condition of employment.

Job responsibilities

Map community assets and existing relationships to inform engagementstrategy.

Develop a calendar of events reflecting diverse populations and nationalcampaigns.

Collaborate with lead nurse, social prescribing link workers, healthcoaches, and care coordinators to deliver events.

Take responsibility for delivery of the events.

Engage community leaders and organisations pre- and post-events tomaximise participation.

Liaise with stakeholder partners and ICB to secure resources such ashealthy living bus.

Coordinating social media lead to promote events before and after.

Prepare event proposals including KPIs, rationale, outcomes, budget, andresource requirements for approval.

Write post-event reports summarising outcomes and KPI achievement.

Recommend and purchase event merchandise within approved budget.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Annual event proposals submitted and approved at quality meeting

Event proposals, including costings, submitted and approved at managementmeetings before each event.

Post-event reports are completed within 10 working days of event.

Community engagement metrics achieved (attendance targets, feedbackscores).

Annualcalendar of events delivered on schedule and aligned with strategic priorities.

Person Specification

Skills

• Strong organisational and communication skills.
• Ability to manage budgets
• Ability to work under pressure with the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines

Personal Qualities

• Ability to build relationships with diverse stakeholders.
• Self-motivated with the ability to work autonomously.

Experience

• Experience in planning and delivering community events.
• Experience in community engagement or event planning.
• Knowledge of health inequalities and personalised care.
• Experience in NHS or healthcare setting.
• Understanding of safeguarding.

Other Requirements

• Lives within or has strong knowledge of the local community

Qualifications

• Proficient in Microsoft Office/Microsoft 365 and social media platforms.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£31,049 to £37,796 a yearDepending on Experience