Communications Officer - Prescot, United Kingdom - St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

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Prescot, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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We are looking for an experienced communications officer who is highly organised with an eye for detail to join our busy, creative, and skilled team.

You will thrive in a fast-paced environment, relish the opportunity to deliver communications across multiple channels and be skilled at capturing the attention of audiences whether it's writing brilliant copy for traditional media releases, producing must see content like video, audio, photography, and animation for our social channels or delivering key internal messages to motivate our staff.

Each day you'll have the opportunity to show off your talents and, working with colleagues at all levels of the organisation, turn your ideas into great content.

In return you will work as a key member of an award-winning communications team in an outstanding organisation (CQC A place where hard work, commitment and kindness is recognised.

There are also exciting opportunities to develop and progress your career as we embark on an exciting new partnership with Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust.

As a key member of the corporate communications team, you will support the organisation to provide an outstanding, forward-thinking communications function.

The team leads on both internal and external focused communications and has responsibility for everything from creating and delivering regular staff and stakeholder briefings to digital communications including social media, maintaining the Trust's brand and identity, producing, and delivering corporate documents and organising numerous events across the year.

The team is also committed to delivering highly visible and effective media and marketing campaigns across regional and national media and are increasingly working in partnership with organisations from across Cheshire and Merseyside.

St Helens & Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is the only acute Trust in Cheshire and Merseyside and one of the few in the country to achieve OUTSTANDING rated by the Care Quality Commission.

We provide a full range of acute adult services to our local population of circa 360,000 and provide tertiary services across the North West, North Wales, and Isle of Man.

We are a Major Trauma Unit and the Mersey Regional Burns Unit.

Our '5 Star Patient Care' strategy is at the heart of what we do; supporting our vision to provide world class services for all our patients by getting it right for every patient, every time.

Our latest achievements include:

Acute Trust of the Year HSJ Awards November 201
Trust rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 201
Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
Best acute Trust in the North West for quality of care (NHS Staff Survey 2021)
Best place to work in the North West (NHS Staff Survey 2021)
Awarded National Preceptorship Accreditation for our Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme

In the NHS Staff Survey 2021 the Trust scored the highest marks in the North West for the following areas:

Standard of care
Best place to work
Care of patients being the Trust's priority
Staff engagement
Staff morale
Compassionate & inclusive
Providing safe environments for staff

Please see attached Wellbeing & Benefits booklet for more information on our benefits for staff. Accessible version available upon request.

KEY DUTIES

Develop effective project, communications plans, which are tailored to the needs of different stakeholders and consider how best to use a range of channels creatively, including social media, multimedia and those managed by other colleagues.
Interpret clinical and operational information into easytounderstand messages for staff, stakeholders and the general public and promote them across relevant channels.
Lead on the production and delivery of the Trust's weekly allstaff briefings and the staff magazine.
Advise Trust services on their communication needs, support where required and manage expectations.
Proactively seek out and learn from best practice, informing the development of our externally and internally facing communications channels.
Support proactive and reactive media relations activity for the Trust by:
Drafting press releases
Liaising with journalists
Researching stories and fact checking
Advising and supporting directors in drafting press releases and media responses on issues including those which are complex, contentious and/or challenging
Help in the management and development of the Trust's digital platforms as required including website, social media and developing multimedia content including videos and graphics.
Work with the wider team to support the organisation of Trust events such as the Start of Year Conference, AGM, Annual Staff Awards, Long Service Awards, VIP visits.
Support the marketing of the Trust's charity.
Support the rest of the communications team, with a variety of daytoday requests as well as longer term projects.
Maintain a