Communications Assistant - Lincoln, United Kingdom - Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Lincoln, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Are you a motivated, creative and innovative communication professional with an eye for a good story and ability to communicate complex topics in a simple and engaging way? We are looking for someone with strong copywriting and organisational skills to join our small, but multi-talented team, to help celebrate mental health, learning disability and autism services in Lincolnshire.

Your role will be instrumental in keeping staff, our patients and public up-to-date with all of the great things happening within the Trust.

You'll do this by producing an excellent standard of written work, liaising closely with local media and utilising our growing network social media channels.

Strong communication and interpersonal skills are essential to be able to work across the organisation at all levels. You will often need to work with complex briefs and tight deadlines, so close attention to detail is imperative.

No two days are ever the same so being adaptable is essential, as is the ability to manage your own time.

Come help us drive excellent communications every day.

Provide support to deliver the Trust's internal and external communications strategies, project specific communications and campaigns.

Source content and write compelling copy for use in internal and external publications and websites.

Provide support to the communications team to prepare team brief, facilitate the meeting and distribute information to senior managers.

Support with the preparation of the members magazine/e-bulletin Better Together.

Assist with the design and print of patient and carer information, including editing copy to improve readability (Plain English) and setting in Trust template designs.

Support with the organisation and administration of corporate events.

Produce and create video and photo content where required.

Maintain the good reputation of the organisation by identifying, researching and writing regular good news stories for the local, regional, trade/professional and national media.

Assist with general media enquiries.

Monitor and evaluate media coverage.

Social media management

Assist teams and provide advice to enable teams to update their website and intranet content using Trust content management systems.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire.

Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England.

We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall.

In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive.

We're really proud of this

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions.

We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Communications

Provide support to deliver the Trust's internal and external communications strategies, project specific communications and campaigns.

Write compelling copy for use in internal and external publications and websites.

Provide support to the communications team to prepare team brief, facilitate the meeting and distribute information to senior managers.

Support with the preparation of the members magazine/e-bulletin Better Together - source articles of interest, prepare, rewrite and edit copy to improve readability (Plain English).

Support with proof-reading.

Assist in the procurement of professional photography, video production, design and print.

Assist with the design and print of patient and carer information, including editing copy to improve readability (Plain English) and setting in Trust template designs.

Support with the organisation and administration of corporate events.

Produce and create video and photo content where required.

Other administration duties as required.

For example, arranging meetings, monitoring shared inbox, placing orders on Trust's procurement system, travel arrangements, distribution of communication and marketing materials, handling telephone calls, maintaining health events calendar.

May be required to work out of core office hours to attend or assist with evening or weekend meetings and events when necessary.

Media/Public Relations

Maintain the good reputation of the organisation by identifying, researching and writing regular good news stories for the local, regional, trade/professional and national media.

Assisting with general media enquiries