About the Organisation:

Ellwood Atfield are proud to be partnering with a membership body within the healthcaresector.

The opportunity:

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Our client are seeking a proactive and politically astute Public Affairs and Campaigns Adviser to help drive its parliamentary engagement, influence and impact.

Reporting to the Head of Public Affairs, you will contribute to the development of campaigns that mobilise members, help deliver an active programme for their All-Party Parliamentary Groups, design and deliver targeted briefings, and work closely with politicians, advisers, researchers, and sector stakeholders to promote the interests of the profession.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead impactful work in a high-profile policy environment and contribute to real change for patients, practitioners, and their sector.

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Main responsibilities:

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• Build and maintain strong cross‑party relationships, engaging MPs, peers, advisers and key stakeholders through briefings, meetings and activity at Westminster and party conferences.
• Monitor UK parliamentary and policy developments, providing intelligence and identifying opportunities for effective lobbying and campaigning.
• Design, lead and deliver public affairs campaigns, support strategic influencing plans, and ensure political insight shapes media, policy and organisational outputs.
• Mobilise members to support lobbying activity and coordinate the organisation’s involvement in key healthcare, union and sector debates, including APPG work.
• Provide public affairs advice and briefings to colleagues and elected officers, contribute flexibly across the Communications team, and deputise for the Head of Public Affairs when required.

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Key skills and experience required:

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• Experience working in Parliament or a public affairs role, with strong understanding of UK politics, government structures and policymaking.

• Understanding of professional membership organisations or trade unions.

• Confident in engaging political stakeholders across parties and coordinating briefings, meetings, events and wider parliamentary engagement.

• Excellent communicator with strong relationship‑building skills and the ability to present complex or technical issues clearly to non‑specialists.

• Highly skilled in monitoring, analysing and synthesising policy, political and data developments, with strong organisational and project‑management abilities.

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Desirable Experience:

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• Knowledge of healthcare policy or the politics of health

• Experience using public affairs stakeholder databases

• Experience acting as secretariat for an All-PartyParliamentary Group

• Experience organising schedules, meetings or events at party conferences.

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How to apply:

To apply, please submit the form below and include a copy of your CV.

The deadline for applications is Thursday 16^th April 2026 at 12:00, however we may close the advert earlier if we receive sufficient applications, so we would encourage you to apply sooner rather than later.

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