An NHS Foundation Trust located in a central London hospital.

Description

You will be working across all communications channels, both internally and externally, ensuring a coordinated approach across the Trust. This will include:

• Developing and maintaining strong relationships with the media and clinicians

• Develop the overall communications strategy of the organisation

• Generate story and campaign ideas aimed to gain positive national media coverage

• Work and lead when appropriate on national broadcaster projects

• Leveraging opportunities to improve the public profile of the organisation

• Ensuring all staff, Trust leaders and spokespeople are briefed and trained on media policy

• Manage the organisation's social media accounts

• Ensure all communications are delivered in line with the organisation strategy

• Maintain and update the corporate communications strategy

• To line manage the communications team

Profile

You will be a leader in media relations and reputation management who thrives when managing high profile media opportunities. You will be a communications all-rounder who has worked on media, corporate, clinician, stakeholder and internal communications within a NHS organisation.

In addition you should:

• Have at least 5 years' experience at a senior level dealing with national press and broadcast media

• Be able to demonstrate your ability to gain national media coverage on previous communications campaigns

• Have great experience promoting organisations

• Be a leader on communications and public policy and have experience advising staff members up to board level

• Have extensive national press and broadcaster media contacts

• Be able to deal with queries from the press and recognise risks and challenges posed from FOI requests

• Have significant line management experience

• Have an understanding of the NHS hierarchy and stakeholders

Job Offer

This is a full time role with an 8B band salary up to £67,000 per annum.