Communications Officer

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust; Northampton; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A local healthcare organization is seeking a proactive Communications professional to join their dynamic team. You will be responsible for creating engaging content, supporting internal and external communications, and ensuring adherence to brand guidelines. Ideal candidates should possess strong creative writing skills and experience with digital platforms. This position offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to community engagement efforts and support organizational initiatives.

Qualifications

• Understanding of communications, media and content gathering.
• Ability to create engaging written, audio, and visual content.
• Commercial awareness to work with suppliers for value.

Responsibilities

• Writing press releases and internal updates.
• Creating video content, animations, or graphics.
• Supporting events including staff awards and VIP visits.

Skills

Creative writing

Team player

Visual communication

Education

Graduate level professional in communications

Tools

Microsoft Office

Canva

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

Overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic, helpful and proactive team player to join our friendly, experienced, and dynamic communications team at the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire - covering Northampton General Hospital and Kettering General Hospital.

You will be creative, resilient and team-oriented, with a strong interest in storytelling, engagement, and two-way communications techniques. The role will cover various aspects of internal, external, and digital communications. You will be part of a team creating engaging content and visuals that inspire interest and support colleagues and our community with clear messaging from their local hospital.

The role requires an experienced and/or graduate level professional, with an understanding of communications, media and content gathering.

A self-starter, you will be responsible for creating high-quality and creative written, audio and visual content to engage both internal and external audiences.

This could be writing press releases or internal updates, creating video content, animations or graphics for the website or social media channels, producing eye catching screensavers or video messages for staff or taking photos at staff events.

You will also support events including staff awards, VIP visits, local stakeholder engagement and working with partners across healthcare and the wider community to support with local campaigns and initiatives.

You will act as a brand guardian ensuring content is produced in line with NHS and our own hospital brand guidelines. As well as this you will obtain quotes and coordinate print and design work, and use a variety of tools including Microsoft Office, Canva and the Adobe Creative Suite.

The role requires you to have, or gain, an understanding of the NHS, current issues and the aims and objectives of the organisation, and commercial awareness to work effectively with suppliers and contractors to obtain best value for money.

About the Trust

Northampton General Hospital is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. All of our divisions are committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire. The Communications team is across both hospitals so location can be discussed at interview.

Excellence Values

Compassion
Accountability
Respect
Integrity
Courage

We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone’s full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities.

We are a Defence positive trust, supporting our reservists, veterans, spouses and partners.

The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled and LGBTQ+ backgrounds as these are underrepresented in our hospitals.

We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.

We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.

How to apply / Informal discussions

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Suzie O'Neill
Job title: Director of Communications and Engagement
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone]

Please contact Suzie for an informal discussion about the role.