Senior Health Editorial Lead

British Heart Foundation; East Ham; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

British Heart Foundation is seeking a Senior Health Editorial Lead to steer the strategy, delivery and development of health content products and programmes. You’ll lead a team to maintain high standards of content, design and information excellence, and ensure Heart Matters aligns with organisational goals.

This hybrid role in London oversees digital health content initiatives, with a focus on search, user journeys and patient-focused communications across diverse audiences.

Qualifications

• Experienced health content professional with editorial, digital and strategic thinking skills.
• Proven ability to lead teams and manage stakeholders to deliver high editorial standards.
• Ability to translate complex medical information into accessible health content for broad audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy, delivery and development of health content products and programmes.
• Oversee Heart Matters portfolio including email newsletter and health magazine.
• Drive digital best practice: SEO, content design, user journeys and conversions.
• Provide guidance to colleagues on communications, especially for patient audiences.
• Demonstrate leadership and influence with senior stakeholders and project teams.

Skills

Editorial leadership

Stakeholder management

Content strategy

SEO

User journeys

Team management

Communication

Behavioural change

Health content

Job description

As our Senior Health Editorial Lead, you'll lead the strategy, delivery and development of health content products and programmes.

An experienced health content professional with editorial, digital, strategic thinking, stakeholder management and content creation skills, you'll lead a team to maintain high standards of content, design, and information excellence.

You will oversee the delivery and future development of the Heart Matters portfolio, which currently includes an award-winning biweekly email newsletter and quarterly heart health magazine. You will ensure that our health content reflects broader BHF priorities and creates customer journeys aligned to organisational strategy.

With other senior colleagues, you'll lead on digital best practice for health content, including search engine optimisation, content design, user journeys, and driving conversions to agreed goals.

Acting as a subject matter expert and source of best practice, you'll provide support and guidance to colleagues around the organisation on their communications, especially with patient audiences.

As our ideal candidate, you have impressive, proven and extensive experience managing the delivery of high editorial standards of health content in multiple formats to a wide and varied audience, including consumers and professionals.

With strong leadership, communication and influencing skills, you have a proven track record of effective project and team management, and experience of communicating with and influencing senior stakeholders.

Possessing high levels of science literacy, knowledge of behavioural change models and experience of applying them to health content, you can turn complex medical information into engaging, accessible content and have experience in delivering user‑centred content to tight deadlines.

Demonstrating a high degree of empathy and compassion for patient and public issues, and a commitment and understanding of diversity in relation to health promotion and long‑term condition management, you naturally act as an advocate for the patient voice across the organisation.

Our ambition is to build, develop and empower a talented and diverse team. Join us at BHF and be part of a supportive environment where you can thrive both personally and professionally.

Working arrangements

This is a 12-month fixed term contract to cover a secondment.

This is a hybrid role, where your work will be split between your home and one day per week, on average, in our London office. This may vary from time to time, so you will need to work in a flexible way to unlock your best work for our cause.

Belonging at BHF

We are committed to fostering a workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. Embracing different perspectives and backgrounds strengthens our organisation and empowers us to make a real difference together.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do. By funding research across six decades, we've helped keep millions of hearts beating and millions of families together. We're investing in ground‑breaking research that will get us closer than ever to a world where everyone has a healthier heart for longer.

Organisation

British Heart Foundation View profile Registered Charity More than 1000

Our vision is a world free from the fear of heart and circulatory diseases.