Journalist - Middlesbrough - Radio Tees

BBC Group and Public Services; Middlesbrough; Hybrid; GBP 27,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team at a renowned public service broadcaster where your storytelling skills can shine. As a journalist for BBC Radio Tees, you will engage with diverse audiences, crafting compelling narratives that resonate across multiple platforms. This role offers the chance to work in a hybrid environment, balancing office and home working, while enjoying excellent career progression and unrivalled training opportunities. If you are passionate about journalism and eager to make a difference in your community, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

25 days annual leave

Defined pension scheme

Discounted health care

Training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in breaking news and digital journalism.
• Strong editorial judgement and ability to work under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Create engaging content for radio, TV, and online platforms.
• Respond to breaking news and summarize complex issues under pressure.

Skills

Journalism

Storytelling

News Reading

Digital Journalism

Editorial Judgement

Job description

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Journalist - Middlesbrough - Radio Tees

Journalism

Permanent - Full Time

Middlesbrough, GB, TS1 5JA

BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST

Job Closing Date: 11/05/2025

THE ROLE

Job Reference:17487
Band: C
Salary: £27,500-32,500. depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Permanent role- Continuing, (35 hours a week)
Location: Office Base is BBC Tees, Middlesbrough- This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working)

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

• Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
• Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.

Freelancers are eligible to apply for an internal role if they are on a Worker Contract and they have worked continuously for 6 months. If they have worked for less than 6 months continuously or have a break of 3 weeks or more between engagements, they must seek Divisional HR approval to apply for an internal role prior to submitting an application.

Job Introduction

BBC Radio Tees is proud to serve an incredible area, and we reflect that pride through creatively serving our audience and making a difference to where we live. We’re committed to telling amazing stories from our communities, and bringing in new audiences through creating content which generates impact on air and on demand. This is a chance to be part of our friendly and talented team with a real can-do spirit. We’re looking for an experienced, versatile journalist to join the team. You’ll need to be hands on and with a passion for story-telling, with experience in breaking news, a great news reading voice, production and digital journalism skills. You’ll need to be a motivated, multi-skilled journalist to help shape our content, focusing on bringing to life the stories that matter to our audience. We want a driven and passionate person who is keen to reach new audiences through our various platforms. You’ll know what audiences expect from different platforms and how to turn around a multi-platform story under a tight deadline. The role requires someone who will be keen to do more than just look for press releases – we want original and inclusive ideas that help reflect the diverse audience.

Main Responsibilities

We’re looking for a talented, creative and experienced journalist. You will be organised, meticulous and have sound editorial judgement, as well as being a great team player. You must have the ability to work under pressure; in a team and on your own and be prepared to work across the rota as needed. You’ll know the BBC Radio Tees patch and understand the changing demands of our audiences, as well as understanding our diverse and underserved audiences. You should have a strong idea of what makes great content on all platforms and be enthusiastic about continuing to learn new skills.

• The ability to help us tell our stories on radio, TV, online and digitally.
• You will come up with original story ideas and creative treatments and carry out background research.
• There may be shifts which require news reading skills.
• You will have experience of responding to breaking news with the ability to summarise complex issues calmly and clearly under significant time pressure.
• Be comfortable reporting live from a studio or at an outside broadcast.
• Our journalists work with colleagues across BBC News and other parts of the corporation. We expect high quality writing skills and the highest standards of accuracy, impartiality and fair dealing in accordance with the BBC's Editorial values and the law.
• Our audience are using us 7 days a week so there’s an expectation of weekend work or early shifts.
  

Are you the right candidate?

• Have you got examples of your stories reaching new and existing audiences?
• We need people who match our ambition for the station.
• The role is demanding and we set high standards, but we also want to have fun.
• If you’re a journalist with plenty of ideas for brilliant storytelling then we want to hear from you.
• Do you have a strong broadcast voice? You will work on a wide range of stories with the audience at the heart of it.

About the BBC

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours here.

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here.

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DISCLAIMER

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

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