Communications Officer

工作内容

No two days are the same for our busy Communications Officers. They are responsible for the planning, creation and delivery of communications and engagement content across the Group. Working closely with other members of the team, they will build relationships with the teams across our hospitals to understand their communications and engagement priorities – supporting their needs and sharing their success stories.

They will support campaigns, events, proactive media and internal communications – tailoring their output to suit a variety of audiences and channels. Strong communications skills are essential as the work delivered will vary across platforms – from social media to the intranet. Our communications officers are multi-talented producing strong written content, videography and design.

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 or graphics for the website or social media channels, producing eye catching screensavers or video messages for staff or taking photos at staff events.

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.

Our 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.

Plan, develop and produce multi-media communications content, ranging from social media soundbites and vlogs, through to informative short films to highlight service developments or staff achievements.

Plan, develop and produce engaging and accurate written communications content, ranging from press releases to newsletter updates

Support the creation and delivery of the staff newsletters and internal communications

Interpret and simplify complex information to result in interesting and engaging communications material, ensuring that messaging is easily understood and accessible by a diverse range of audiences

Deliver assigned projects, leading on successful completion within agreed timescales and budget.

Support the videography and photography of events such as staff award presentations and staff briefings.

Support and advise departments on communications and engagement, ensuring that projects are planned, managed and delivered effectively (whether delivered in-house or externally).

Proactively plan, produce and publish material to enhance communications and engagement tools and activities, e.g. websites, intranet, social media, events and campaigns.

Plan and post content on social media

Assist in the development and implementation of communication and engagement standards, helping to ensure standards are met and maintained and services are enabled to improve communications and engagement within their teams.

Subject to skill availability/training, provide support to develop screensavers, animations and other graphics.

Represent the communications and engagement team at meetings across the Group and provide relevant specialist advice.

Support communications and engagement colleagues in the delivery of other communications and engagement activity as appropriate.

Evaluate your work with continuous improvement in mind.