Health Journalist

JR United Kingdom; London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An ambitious and exciting medical education provider is seeking an experienced news journalist to join their dynamic UK team. In this remote role, you'll be responsible for sourcing and writing compelling news stories for medical professionals, ensuring clarity and engagement. With a focus on clinical and medicopolitical developments, you'll have the opportunity to monitor media, attend conferences, and contribute to impactful content. This role offers varied work and growth potential within a collaborative team dedicated to excellence. If you have a passion for journalism and a knack for storytelling, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of journalism experience, ideally in health or science.
• Excellent news sense and ability to generate original story ideas.

Responsibilities

• Source and write news stories for medical audiences.
• Monitor media, attend medical conferences, and report on developments.

Skills

Journalism

Research Skills

Communication Skills

Writing Skills

Story Idea Generation

Job description

An ambitious and exciting medical education provider is looking for an experienced news journalist to join their growing UK team.

Communicating clinical and medicopolitical developments for healthcare professionals, this successful organisation has built an excellent reputation for their ability to cut through the noise, and keep audiences informed and engaged.

In this role, you will be responsible for sourcing and writing news stories for medical audiences. You’ll monitor relevant media to uncover leads, attend and report on medical conferences, and ensure work is completed to the highest standards and to deadlines.

This opportunity offers plenty of interesting and varied work, as well as ownership and growth potential. You’ll be joining a close knit, collaborative team who are committed to providing informative and impactful content for their audiences.

While this is a remote role, you must be UK based and able to attend meetings in London on a regular basis.

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years journalism experience, ideally in health or science.
• Excellent news sense, and ability to generate original story ideas.
• Ability to interpret complex information and report topics with clarity.
• Well-honed writing and research skills.
• Superb communication and relationship building skills.
• Ability to work independently and to deadlines.