Creative Health Lead

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Truro

On-site

GBP 49,000 - 57,000

Part time

10 days ago

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Job summary

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in Cornwall seeks a Creative Health Lead to drive strategy, engagement and delivery of neighbourhood health initiatives. You will work with NHS and local partners to co-create services and improve population health.

The role focuses on preventing ill health, personalised care, and social prescribing, with flexible working patterns and a 24-month delivery plan.

Qualifications

Educated to degree level or equivalent with proven experience in creative health or public health.
Experience delivering stakeholder engagement and public consultation.
Experience creating content for social media and internal/external comms.
NHS experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead a system-wide creative health strategy and 24-month delivery plan with governance and outcomes.
Map current creative health provision, partners, evidence, needs and gaps.
Work with Integrated Neighbourhood Teams to include creative health in plans.
Use population health data and community insight to target health inequalities.
Build durable relationships across NHS, local gov, and partners.
Support co-production with communities and advise on funding and resources.
Expand creative health contributions to social prescribing and priority areas.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Engagement & consultation

Event management

Public engagement

Education

Degree level or equivalent

Master's degree or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office

InDesign

Photoshop

Premiere Pro

Job description

Main area Neighbourhood Commissioning Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract 24 months (Ffixed term contract or secondment) Hours Part time - 30 hours per week Job ref 201-26-784

Site New County Hall Town Truro Salary £49,387 - £56,515 Pro Rata Salary period Yearly Closing 14/09/2026 23:59

Thank you for your interest in joining us at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.

Strategic Themes

Care based on what matters to people.

Care provided at home or close to home.

Improvement through learning, research and innovation.

Prevention and alternatives to hospital.

Great Care

Care based on what matters to people.

Care provided at home or close to home.

Improvement through learning, research and innovation.

Prevention and alternatives to hospital.

Great Organisation

Buildings that support health and wellbeing.

Technology enabled care.

Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services.

Safe, efficient, effective and productive.

Great People

A place people love to work and feel valued.

Living our values with staff (all voices count).

Attract, grow and develop talent.

Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen.

Great Partner

Encourage and enable effective partnerships.

Joined-up community services.

Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities.

Reduce our impact on the environment.

At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Job overview

Working with colleagues across the system, the Creative Health Lead is responsible for leading the development, co-ordination and delivery of the creative health programme including public consultation and co-production, for a range of neighbourhood health services.

To lead the development and delivery of creative health and engagement strategies to support the delivery of neighbourhood health initiatives including prevention, personalised care and social prescribing programmes.

To work strategically and identify interoperability between workstreams and change programmes to maximise reach and potential of creative health strategies.

Proactively and independently develop, implement and evaluate programme creative health and engagement activity and lead creative health change management strategies.

To develop relationships with external stakeholders to ensure creative health strategies are responsive to the needs of the system and communities.

To independently develop creative health delivery and partnership channels and provide specialist advice to programme teams and other stakeholders, acting as creative health specialist at times of change when effective engagement is crucial.

Working with service users and communities to co-produce creative health projects, drawing on research and expert by experience networks to develop effective creative health and engagement strategies.

Main duties of the job

Lead a system wide creative health strategy and 24 month delivery plan, with clear governance, priorities, outcomes and a sustainability plan.

Map current creative health provision, partners, evidence, need and gaps, and establish a practical mechanism for keeping this intelligence current.

Work with Integrated Neighbourhood Teams to include creative health within neighbourhood plans, pathway development and community based support.

Use population health information, evidence and community insight to focus activity on people and places most affected by health inequalities, including rural, coastal, island and deprived communities.

Build durable relationships across the NHS, local government, primary care, social care, the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector, cultural organisations, universities and communities.

Support co production with people who use services, carers and communities, including people whose voices are less often heard.

Advise commissioners and partners, develop investment cases and funding bids, and identify sustainable resources for creative health activity.

Expand the contribution of creative health to social prescribing, personalised care and priority areas such as mental health, children and young people, frailty, long term conditions and prevention.

Working for our organisation

We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you’ll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 5,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people’s homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 10 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increase the numbers of people who use out services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see ‘supporting documents’.

Person specification

Education and Experience

Educated to Degree level or equivalent level of qualification or significant equivalent previous proven experience in a specialist area, such as creative health, public health, programme management or community development.

Educated to master level or equivalent experience in creative health, public health, project management, change management, strategy and planning.

Good knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills. Broad communications and engagement experience, including development of content for internal and external comms (e.g., intranet, ebulletins, events)

Experience of delivering stakeholder engagement and consultation projects

Experience of designing and creating content for social media and other platforms using specialist software for example, Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and Premiere Pro.

Experience working in the NHS or other health system

Skills and Aptitude

Highly experienced in leading, delivering and project managing creative health programmes including event management, workshops, learning sessions and visits.

Experience in strategic planning of system creative health programmes and events and leading the implementation of public consultation strategies

Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans accordingly

At Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust we are proud to prioritise the development of our people. To support this, the following opportunities are available: