Communications Manager

Leeds Teaching Hospitals; Leeds; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking an experienced communications professional to lead internal communications and engagement. You will create content for a variety of platforms and maintain our corporate websites and intranet to keep staff informed and supported.

You will build strong relationships with senior leaders and colleagues, advise teams, and help shape communications for maternity and neonatal services while ensuring clear, compassionate messaging across channels.

Qualifications

• Broad communications experience across multiple channels.
• Excellent writing with strong attention to detail and adaptability to audiences.
• Confident relationship builder able to advise teams and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead internal communications and engagement to inform and support colleagues.
• Create compelling content for digital and print platforms to reach diverse audiences.
• Maintain and develop corporate websites and the colleague intranet to be accurate and user-friendly.
• Keep stakeholders updated on key developments in a timely manner.
• Support communications around media enquiries.
• Translate complex information into clear, accessible content for colleagues, patients, families and partners.

Skills

Internal communications

Stakeholder relations

Content creation

Job description

Help shape communications at one of the UKs largest NHS teaching hospitalsWe're looking for an experienced communications professional to join our corporate communications team at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Working at the heart of the organisation, you'll be involved in a wide range of communications activity, from leading colleague engagement campaigns and managing media enquiries to supporting major programmes of work and creating content across digital channels.

It's a role for someone who enjoys variety and wants to play a key role in how we communicate with our colleagues, patients, partners and communities.

The role will be based in our Trust HQ at St James's University Hospital, Leeds.

Main duties of the job

What you'll be doing

• Leading internal communications and engagement activity that helps colleagues feel informed and supported.
• Creating compelling content for use on a multitude of platforms, including digital and print, helping us reach and engage diverse audiences
• Maintaining and developing our corporate websites, including the colleague intranet, so it remains accurate, accessible and user-friendly
• Keeping stakeholders updated on key developments in a timely and effective way
• Supporting communication around a wide range of media enquiries.
• Turning complex information into clear, accessible and engaging content for colleagues, patients, families and partners

About us

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is committed to delivering the highest quality and safest treatment and care to every patient, every time.Our vision is to provide the highest quality specialist and integrated care.We will do this through delivery of our multi-year goals and strategic priorities, which you can read about on this page.Central to it all is The Leeds Way our values and behaviours that are at the heart of everything we do.

Job responsibilities

For questions about this job, contact

Position: Deputy Head of Communications

Email: [e-mail]

Shortlisting Date: 19 October

What you will bring to the role

Youll have broad communications experience and a passion for delivering high quality work. Youll be an excellent writer with a sharp eye for detail and the ability to adapt your style for different audiences. Youll also be a confident relationship builder who can offer thoughtful, proactive advice to teams across the Trust.

Were particularly looking for someone with strong internal communications experience and skills to support our Womens and neonatal services, and with an interest in the many different ways and platforms we can use to reach our audiences. Youll play an important role in a team that leads communications for the Trusts programme to improve maternity and neonatal services, working to ensure our approach is open, clear and compassionate.

Additional qualities we are keen to see:

• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities
• Strong interpersonal skills and the confidence to work with senior leaders
• A calm, solutions focused approach when working under pressure
• Creativity, curiosity and a commitment to continuous improvement

Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.

About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust

The Leeds Way is working together to support each other and deliver the best possible care to patients.

We are.

Responsible Open and Honest One Team Kind

Our Trust priorities

Our purpose: Excellent, safe and sustainable care for every patient every time

Our priorities:

People Improvement and Innovation Partnerships Outcomes

To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications.

Person Specification

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.