Communications Officer

Kent and Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in England is seeking a Communications Officer to produce engaging internal and external content. Responsibilities include implementing communication campaigns, managing media relations, and creating multimedia content. The ideal candidate will possess strong storytelling skills and the ability to foster relationships within the community. Join a diverse team committed to providing excellent care in a dynamic and supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in producing communication campaigns across digital and traditional platforms.
• Strong writing skills for internal and external communications.
• Ability to build relationships within healthcare settings.

Responsibilities

• Produce and implement effective communication campaigns.
• Build relationships to find stories for content generation.
• Create engaging content for various channels.
• Update the Trust's website and newsletters.
• Support media relations and manage sensitive issues.
• Organize and publicize events related to staff and public engagement.

Skills

Creative storytelling

Relationship building

Content creation

Media relations

Digital communication

Job description

We’re looking for someone who can travel to different places in Kent and Medway to help share our stories. You’ll join a busy, friendly communications team, working with our 3,800 staff and many others outside the Trust—like newspapers, other NHS teams, and local community groups.

Your job will be to help people feel connected, make sure our work is well known, and protect our good reputation. You’ll show that mental health is just as important as physical health, use our new logo and style so everything looks right, and support big projects that matter to us.

You’ll create written and digital content, including short videos for our social media channels, to help staff, patients, and partners see and hear what we’re doing. If you enjoy meeting people, telling stories, and using creative ideas to share news, this role could be for you.

• To help produce and implement effective and creative communication campaigns, content, and activities – using digital and traditional channels and platforms – that meet their KPIs and engage target audiences (internal and external) in support of KMPT’s strategic priorities.
• To proactively build relationships across the Trust, with our patients and partners to find stories and case studies that help generate internal and external content.
• To produce engaging content for internal and external audiences that is suitable for use across the full range of our channels – this will include written work, multimedia content such as short-form (social media style) videos, graphics and gifs, wider social media content, and supporting colleagues to create print and digital collateral.
• To write content for and regularly update the trust’s website, intranet, and regular internal and external newsletters.
• To support media relations activities and manage sensitive issues effectively, as needed, including writing and issuing quotes, statements, and news releases, supporting personnel undertaking media interviews, and liaising with journalists/answering their queries.
• To help organise and publicise events as appropriate, for example staff engagement and listening events, public boards, and our Long Service Awards.

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability, and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.

Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.

We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard, and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman is recognized as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Our strategy

Our mission is what we set out to do every day

We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people.

Our vision is where we want to be in the future

To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.

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For further details / informal visits contact:

Name: Jenny Lloyd
Job title: Communications Manager
Email address: [e-mail]