Communications Assistant
Communications Assistant
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Job Description
This post is only open for applications for individuals employed within the Hampshire and Isle of Wight NHS Care System
Organisations within scope are as follows:
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board
- Southern Health Foundation Trust
- Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
- University Hospital Southampton
- Solent NHS Trust
- South Central Ambulance Service
- Isle of Wight NHS Trust
- Hampshire Hospitals
Location : This role will require a minimum of 2 days per week to be worked on site at Queen Alexandra Hospital. This will be the base location for this role.
Band 4 :per annum
Permanent Full Time : 37.5 hours per week
Not much happens across our Trusts without the support of the Communications and Engagement team. We ensure our patients colleagues and stakeholders understand the services offered by the Trust understand our vision values and aims are able to influence services and are wellinformed and engaged in the work of the Trust.
We are a newly formed communications and engagement team and were looking for a dynamic and creative Communications Assistant to join us. You will support on several organisational wide communications and engagement programmes of activity projects and priorities spanning internal and external communications.
As an excellent communicator you will be expected to use your copy writing skills support social media activity website and intranet work and help organise a series of events to support our organisational strategies.
Your outstanding people skills mean that you will be able to play a key role in establishing positive working relationships quickly at all levels of the organisation. You will easily be able to manage a busy workload responding to conflicting priorities as required.
If you are a passionate and ambitious communicator and this sounds like the next role for you then we would love to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities:
- You will be a key part of our day to day communications and engagement activities covering both internal and external communications.
- You will support our media liaison and ensure accurate information is recorded in a timely and consistent way.
- You will support the production of publications for internal audiences liaising with departments and teams to ensure inclusion of accurate and timely information.
- Social media content gathering including drafting social media posts and taking pictures/videos of staff and patients.
- The work will involve regular contact and engagement with members of the public patients and their relatives to gather information and stories to promote the Trust and the services provided.
- You will be part of our events management team assisting to organise staff and public engagement events.
- Due to the nature of communications work some outofhours working including evenings and weekends will be expected as and when necessary.
For further information please see the Job Description
Please note this position has also been advertised on the Isle of Wight NHS Trusts job page. If you are interested in this position and wish to apply there is no requirement to submit two applications.
Qualifications :
Qualifications
- Alevel or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
Experience
Experience of drafting communications and correspondence.
Experience of writing engaging copy for different audiences.
Experience of working to deadlines and prioritising work.
Experience of working in a busy office environment.
Knowledge
Computer literacy in Microsoft Windows and Office
Ability to turn complex information into easily understood messages suitable for different channels
Working knowledge of industry standard film photography and content editing software such as Adobe Creative Suite.
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Excellent organisational and time management skills including the ability to establish appropriate documentation and record keeping and prioritise workloads.
Ability to write intelligibly interestingly concisely and with flair and creativity
Selfmotivation and ability to deal with a demanding workload and deliver consistently to deadlines.
Flexible to unexpected demands
Team player able to engage with others in own team and colleagues in the organisation
Ability to work independently or as part of a team
Creative thinking and positive attitude.
Good interpersonal stills and relationship building.
Additional Information :
The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our onsite Nursery access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days our onsite Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ Race Equality and DisAbility and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.
Please note your application may be transferred to the Isle of Wight Applicant tracking System (ATS) if you are selected for an interview.
We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education opinions culture ethnicity race sex gender identity and expression nation of origin age languages spoken veterans status colour religion disability sexual orientation and beliefs.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
