Information Officer

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Cystic Fibrosis Trust is recruiting an Information Officer with a passion for publications and a commitment to empowering the cystic fibrosis community through provision of high quality, accessible information.

Based in the Information and Support team and reporting to the Information Manager, you will develop and maintain our extensive offer of health and other information, including our library of factsheets, special topic information packs, web pages and video content aimed at people affected by cystic fibrosis and clinical teams.

You will have experience of producing high quality, comprehensive information for people with health conditions from concept through to publication and a knack for making complex health information easy to understand. Meticulous proof-reading skills are essential, with experience of writing for both print and web a bonus. Maintaining the Trust’s reputation for outstanding information provision through understanding of and commitment to the criteria of the Patient Information Forum quality kitemark (the PIF tick) is integral to the role, together with sensitive and meaningful involvement of end-users to ensure information meets the needs of the target audiences.

This role will involve working on multiple resources concurrently, therefore strong organisational and time-management skills are needed, as is the ability to work autonomously as well as with colleagues in the team and wider organisation, and a range of external stakeholders.

Benefits include 30 days annual leave (pro-rata for part time), flexible working and opportunities for learning and development.

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  This role offers a flexible location however occasional travel to London Office will be required if home-based.

Please note: you will need to have the right to work in the UK before starting work for us and we will check this.

Closing date for completed applications is 5pm on Wednesday 3rd April. We reserve the right to bring forward the closing date if necessary. Therefore, if you are interested in this role, please submit your application as early as possible.

Interviews will be held 17th – 18th April.

How to apply

Please read the job description and person specification attached for more information on the role and then select 'Apply Now' to complete our application form through our third-party provider Hireful.

The Cystic Fibrosis Trust welcomes applications from candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from people with cystic fibrosis, disabled people, and Black, Asian and minority ethnic and LGBTQI+ candidates.

Your privacy

We welcome your interest in working with us here at the Cystic Fibrosis Trust. In order to review and manage your application, we need to collect certain personal information about you through your application. We are committed to protecting your personal information and being transparent in what we do with it.

We will only use your personal information as required to manage your application to work with us, or as required by applicable law or regulatory requirements.

We do ask that you help us monitor our performance on equality by completing the accompanying Equal Opportunities Form which contains no identifiable personal information. Doing so is optional, and any information you provide through this form will be used to provide generalised aggregated reports. It will not affect your application in any way and is kept separately.

In the event your application is unsuccessful, we will retain your information for up to 12 months, before it is disposed of confidentially.

For more detailed information on your rights and how we use any data you provide us, please see our privacy policy