Senior Communications Officer – ON-SITE

Job Overview

logoThis is an opportunity to join a motivated, creative and innovative team in an outstanding organisation.

The communications team supports the organisation by providing an outstanding communications and engagement function. The team leads on both internal and external focused communications, using marketing and engagement campaigns, which make a difference to our patients, service users, carers and staff every day. The team has responsibility for everything from digital communications including social media, to media relations, and from accessibility to maintaining the Trust brand and identity.

The post holder will primarily be focused on external communications, whilst being flexible to the needs of the organisation to support internal focused communications as well. The post holder will need to develop strong links with operational colleagues to understand their communication needs and work with them on solutions.

While home working is supported, the post holder will be required to be able to travel into offices in Kettering and Northampton.

Working with the team to understand current priorities, the post holder will have the autonomy to plan, deliver and evaluate campaigns, using a variety of multimedia solutions. The post holder will support with a variety of communications activities including external profiling, media relations, updating and developing accessible digital content including web and social media, developing reports, developing patient information, liaising with external suppliers as well as supporting the wider team.

NHFT is a community and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Kathryn Hall Job title: Communications Manager Email address: kathryn.hall@nhft.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07564055857

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