Loren Grant

Experience

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  North West Regional Office, Department of Health

  Aug 2001 - Mar 2002

  Communications Development Manager

  - support and develop communications on changes involved in the NHS Plan (including’ Shifting the Balance of Power’) including assessing communications capacity across the region and contributing towards ‘business continuity’ planning for post-April 2002- routine media handling of regional DoH issues, including ministerial announcements and visits, responding to media enquiries, providing strategic communications advice to colleagues at Regional Office - working closely with the Parliamentary Unit providing information and advice and responding to ministerial enquiries- provide advice and support to NHS communications leads across the Region- develop and strengthen the regional communications network- Communications support to Regional Taskforces, Show less

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  Manchester PCT

  Mar 2002 - Apr 2007

  Communications Manager
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  NHS Northwest

  Apr 2007 - Mar 2013

  Assistant Director, Communications and Engagement, Equality, Diversity and Human Rights

  Communications Strategy, Media Relations, Copy writing, Editing, Publications Management, Speech writing, Event Management, Presentations, Training, Social Media, Blogging, Video

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  NHS North West

  Apr 2007 - Feb 2010

  Assistant Director, Communications

  Strategic communications planning, PR and media management, print and online publication planning and production, internal communications, commissioning training programmes, delivering internal communications training, event management

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  Loren Grant

  Apr 2013 - now

  Communications and Media Relations Consultant
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  Foodwiser

  Apr 2013 - now

  • Nutrition Consultant

    Jul 2016 - now

  • Nutritional Therapy and Consultancy

    Apr 2013 - now
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  Making Equality Work

  Feb 2014 - now

  Associate Consultant

  Making Equality Work is a consultancy on Equality, Inclusion and Human Rights, especially in relation to large public sector organisations such as the NHS. It is led by Shahnaz Ali, OBE.Our most recent project, launched on July 15, 2014, is NEED - the National Equality Evidence Database http://needlibrary.info. This website is designed to assist anyone working in the public, private or third sectors to carry out research on protected groups so as to produce effective evidence based strategies, policies, plans or activities; find qualitative or quantitative research to assess the potential impacts of changes; andshare best practice widely to avoid 'reinventing the wheel'. Show less

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  NHS

  Sept 2015 - Jun 2016

  Senior Associate, Communications and Patient Engagement

  Delivery and evaluation of corporation communication plans including media relations, internal communications, stakeholder management, corporate website and social media management, publications, multi-media marketing.

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  Health Education England

  Dec 2016 - Jul 2018

  Stakeholder Engagement