Reporter, Pulse PCN, Healthcare Leader and The Pharmacist Old Street

Cogora; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK healthcare media company is seeking a junior health reporter to produce news stories that impact frontline professionals. In this role, you will write two to three news pieces daily, conduct interviews, and build contacts within the health sector. Applicants should have a relevant portfolio and a basic understanding of UK health policy. You will enjoy hybrid working opportunities, with one day weekly in the London office, alongside a supportive editorial team.

Benefits

Flexible hybrid working

Career development opportunities

Access to central London office

Qualifications

• A portfolio of news stories from any publication.
• An appetite for writing in a fast-paced environment.
• Basic knowledge of the UK health sector.

Responsibilities

• Write two to three news stories a day, including one lead.
• Find exclusive stories.
• Build contacts to share with the news team.
• Write news-led features and in-depth investigations.
• Work within tight online deadlines.

Skills

Fast and accurate writing

Contact building

Data analysis

Understanding UK health sector

Education

NCTJ or relevant degree

Job description

We are seeking a reporter to join our editorial team, to cover health policy, break exclusives and provide comprehensive news and events coverage to the readers of our award-winning publications Pulse PCN, Healthcare Leader and The Pharmacist.

The NHS is always evolving and currently it is going through rapid changes from the leaders down to the frontline. Healthcare Leader is at the forefront of covering the top-level policy changes in the NHS, Pulse PCN, supported by leading GP magazine Pulse, leads the way in covering the move to a Neighbourhood NHS and The Pharmacist covers the frontline professionals upon which many of these ambitions are pinned.

For a journalist interested in politics and health these brands allow a comprehensive opportunity to get to grips with health policy and report on issues that impact the people who work for and with the NHS.

News, interviews, features and data-led investigations will be on your daily agenda.

Key skills will include extensive contact building, developing a good understanding of the day-to-day priorities of working pharmacists, clinical directors and health system leaders, seeking out key voices, attending events, data analysis, and searching out exclusives and leads for investigations.

This is a junior health reporter role, so you will have an NCTJ or degree and ideally have had relevant work or freelance experience as a journalist.

The reporter will report to the deputy editor and work closely with the editor.

The team works alongside our other brands including Pulse and Nursing in Practice and there will also be some opportunity to write across these sectors at times.

You will work within a wider team in an innovative health-focused publishing company that offers hybrid working and a central London office. We would like you to spend one day a week (or more, if you like) in our offices in Farringdon, in the City of London.

Responsibilities

• Writing around two-three news stories a day, including one lead
• Finding exclusive stories
• Building contacts to share with the rest of the news team
• Writing news-led features and in-depth investigations
• Working within tight online deadlines
• Going out to meetings and conferences
• Uploading content to the website
• Developing and building weekly newsletters
• Developing and contributing to our social media
• Contributing to podcasts
• Working with the wider Cogora Editorial Brands
• Working with the rest of the editorial team to shape the content and direction of Cogora’s publications, which cover the whole of primary care

Key skills

Essential

• A portfolio of news stories, which can be from school or university newspapers, local press or any other publication;
• An appetite for writing news in a fast-paced environment;
• The ability to write fast, accurate copy;
• A basic knowledge of the UK health sector.

Highly desirable

• Experience of working in a busy newsroom
• Some experience of writing about health policy.

Desirable, but not essential

• Science degree;
• Experience of data journalism

Why Join Us

• You will hone your journalistic skills within an award-winning media company at the heart of the UK healthcare community.
• You will report across our trusted brands — Pulse PCN, Healthcare Leader and The Pharmacist — covering stories that shape the NHS and impact frontline professionals.
• You will be part of a collaborative editorial team committed to producing high-quality, data-driven journalism that makes a real difference.
• You will benefit from genuine opportunities for growth and career development within a company that invests in its people.
• You will enjoy a flexible hybrid working model, with access to our central London office in Farringdon.
• You will join a Great Place to Work and UK’s Best Workplace for Women certified employer that values inclusion, wellbeing and professional excellence.

Please note that due to the expected high numbers of applications, we are only able to contact successful candidates. No recruitment agencies please.