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Senior Communications Officer

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust317 02 Royal Victoria Infirmary

16 days ago

Job type

Temporary

Job description

Job summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual with excellent communications and media and / or marketing experience to join the Patient and Staff Experience team.

This team delivers multi-faceted improvement programmes across the Trust to drive the transformation of Patient and Staff Experience. This is an exciting opportunity to be involved with developing and implementing the Trust's Patient and Staff experience communication strategy, engage with patients, and foster positive relationships with staff across the Trust and with external partners.

Interview Date Wednesday 12 February 2025
37 Hours 30 Minutes / Week
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Main duties of the job

The main duties include supporting the planning, production, and delivery of corporate communications, marketing, and web content in line with the Patient and Staff Experience team objectives. This will require excellent IT skills, effective stakeholder engagement, and working closely with teams across the Trust and colleagues in HR. The successful candidate will assist with the timely implementation of communications plans and take a creative and person-centered approach to the role whilst utilising their understanding of the working within a complex organisation like the NHS.

About us

Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites :

o Freeman Hospital

o Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)

o Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)

o Newcastle Dental Hospital

o Newcastle Fertility Centre

o Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria

o Northern Genetics Service

o Cramlington Manor Walks

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.

For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit : Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Job description

Job responsibilities

Assisting in promoting the reputation of the Trust as a high-quality healthcare provider

Working as part of the Patient and Staff experience team Contributing to, and assisting with, the delivery of a corporate communication strategy and associated communication, engagement and marketing initiatives to enable the Trust to deliver on its Patient and Staff experience strategic objectives. This will include leading aspects of the strategy as appropriate

Developing and implementing tactical communication plans to support a complex array of the Patient and Staff experience programmes and services, working closely with key internal audiences as well as external partners as part of the integration agenda; via Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs)

Liaising with the Communications team / marketing team to provide a high quality, professional and proactive service to the Trust that implements best practice and seeks innovative ways to support the trust in achieving its objectives

Supporting events management GP Education, promotional events

Working with the patient engagement / experience team to lead, develop and co-ordinate patient and public engagement activities and services across the Trust in order to influence the development and delivery of services

Ensuring the Trust abides by NHS and Trust corporate identity guidelines, industry standards / guidelines

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. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Education

Essential

Degree level education and / or equivalent level of qualification or experience ( Health; Media / Journalism / Web publishing)

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

Relevant experience in a relevant speciality public relations, communications, marketing and / or journalism to post graduate level or demonstrable experience. This must include social / web-based media

Demonstrable experience in a large, complex organisation

Good working knowledge of relevant legislation, guidelines and regulation

Experience of inter-agency working involving multiple and diverse partners

Desirable

Good understanding of the NHS environment

Experience of working at a similar level in the NHS or other healthcare environment

Experience of providing communications support to a charity

Car driver would be advantageous

Web publishing and content management

Have a good understanding of current and emerging technologies that support delivery and management of key communications, this includes social media

Skills & Abilities

Essential

Excellent communication skills - written and verbal

Media handling skills

Good interpersonal and negotiation skills

Ability to communicate complex information to a range of audiences at all levels within the organisation and externally

Ability to work under pressure, managing multiple projects to tight deadlines

Ability to work autonomously with creativity, drive and flexibility

Excellent IT literacy including Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio) and other relevant IT systems