Communications Assistant

Job overview

INTERNAL IOW AND PHU APPLICANTS ONLY

Communications Assistant

Location : Across sites, both IOW NHS Trust and PHU NHS Trust (frequency of visits to each site, to be agreed locally.) Band 4 : £26,530 - £29,114 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 well-informed and engaged in the work of the Trust.

We are a newly formed communications and engagement team and we're 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.

Main duties of the job

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 out-of-hours working, including evenings and weekends will be expected as and when necessary.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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.

For further details, please see enclosed Job Description.

Please note, this position has also been advertised on the Portsmouth Hospitals University Trust's job page. If you are interested in this position and wish to apply, there is no requirement to submit two applications.

Please note your application may be transferred to the Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust Applicant tracking System (ATS) if you are selected for an interview.