Senior Communications Officer

Senior Communications Officer

Salary: Grade C: £31,373 (National Framework) or £36,775 (London Framework – if you are London office-based or home-based and live within the boundary of the M25) – There is also an additional homeworking allowance of £553 per annum for those working from home.

Contracted Hours: Full-time 37 hours per week. Job-share will be considered. Talk to us about compressed hours.

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Home-based, flexible location or London Office-based.

Closing Date: Sunday 14th July 2024 at 11.59 pm

Potential Interview Date: (via Teams) – w/c 29th July

About Us

The National Guardian’s Office is jointly funded by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and NHS England and Improvement (NHSE). The office leads, trains and supports a network of Freedom to Speak Up (FTSU) Guardians in England and conducts speaking up reviews to identify learning and support improvement of the speaking up culture of the healthcare sector.

We are now looking for a Senior Communications Officer to join us on a full-time, permanent basis.

The Benefits

- 27 days’ annual leave, rising with service to 32.5 days, plus 8 Bank Holidays
- NHS pension scheme, with around a 14% employer contribution
- Free employee assistance service 24 hours a day
- Discounts to supermarkets, high street stores, electronics and fleet cars
- Discounted gym vouchers
- Cycle to work scheme
- Internal reward scheme where you could earn yourself a voucher or two!
- Equipment for homeworking

Why this could be a great role for you

This is the perfect opportunity for a communications professional with strategy development experience to join our dedicated team.

You’ll discover a rewarding role, helping us in our initiative to normalise speaking up and ensure it is considered business as usual.

What’s more, alongside helping a huge range of people across the healthcare sector, you will discover excellent development prospects and support to hone your skillset and advance your communications career!

So, if you’re ready to step into a vital role, read on and apply.

What you will bring…

To be considered as a Senior Communications Officer, you will need:

- Experience in developing creative communications
- Experience in developing communication plans and strategies and delivering effective campaigns to support them
- Experience in building relationships with a range of stakeholders
- Working knowledge of Microsoft applications and creative media packages, including image and video editing and website and social media platforms
- Excellent proofreading skills
- Strong project management skills
- To be educated to degree-level (or equivalent)

What you’ll be doing

As a Senior Communications Officer, you will help make speaking up in the healthcare sector business as usual through our communication and engagement strategy.

Joining our small and busy Communications and Engagement Team, you will plan, create, write, and lead the day-to-day delivery of engaging communications targeted at healthcare workers.

You will work across a broad range of channels and for various audiences, including Freedom to Speak Up Guardians, stakeholders and interested parties.

Supporting our National Lead for Communications and Engagement in all aspects of communications activity, you will undertake copywriting, events planning and delivery, responding to enquiries and liaising with the media.

Additionally, you will:

- Co-ordinate the publication of reports and announcements
- Create presentations among other communication materials
- Manage key communication channels, including our website
- Develop communications plans in support of our output
- Devise a social media strategy and maintain our social media activities

Next steps

If you require any support or assistance with the recruitment process, please contact our team or include a note in your application.

We know diverse teams allow for a more creative and productive environment and therefore encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, gender/sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability, ethnicity or sexual orientation.

So, if you’d like to join us as a Senior Communications Officer, please apply using the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.

Other organisations may call this role Communications and Engagement Manager, Press Officer, Communications Officer, Marketing and Communications Manager, Media and Engagement Manager, or Media Relations Manager.