Content Officer (Patient Information)


Location
Salary
£38,488 - £46,852 £38488
Profession
Officer (discipline unspecified)
Grade
Band 5
Deadline
22 Sep 2026
Contract Type
7 months (Fixed term)
Posted Date
15 Sep 2026
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Job requirements

Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.

Essential

6 listed

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

  • Experience

    Good track record in creating and editing content

  • Experience

    Experience of editing and excellent understanding of grammar and punctuation

  • Experience

    Proven ability to support effective content projects.

  • Education / qualifications

    Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

  • Skills / knowledge / abilities

    Proficient in the use of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Project for the Web and other relevant programmes and software

  • Skills / knowledge / abilities

    Ability to organise and prioritise own workload, working to deadlines

Desirable

6 listed

Additional qualities the employer would prefer.

  • Experience

    NHS or private health experience

  • Experience

    Experience of user insights, focus groups, or working in a way that’s focused on the needs of the user

  • Experience

    Patient information experience.

  • Education / qualifications

    Relevant professional qualifications, for example some content/user insights training.

  • Skills / knowledge / abilities

    Experience of planning and project management

  • Skills / knowledge / abilities

    Administration skills, for example updating and maintaining a database.

Job overview

We're looking for a content officer to join our user experience and insights team at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. In this role, you'll help us ensure that patients and families using our services receive information that is accurate, inclusive and easy to understand.

Working with colleagues across the Trust, you will draft and edit patient information for our website, leaflets and letters. You will help coordinate translation and accessible formats, support patient and user involvement activities, and organise the processes that keep our information accurate and up to date.

You will have strong writing, editing and proofreading skills, with an excellent understanding of grammar and punctuation. You will be able to organise competing priorities, meet deadlines and build effective relationships with a wide range of colleagues and stakeholders.

This is an opportunity to use your communication and coordination skills to make a practical difference to patient care. You will join a collaborative team committed to creating information and services around the needs of our diverse communities. Join us and help make healthcare information clearer, more accessible and more useful for everyone.

Main duties of the job

Responsibilities include:

  • writing and editing patient-facing content in plain English
  • uploading and maintaining content on the website and in our patient information database
  • coordinating translation, large-print, audio and other accessible formats
  • managing requests through the patient information inbox and database
  • liaising with clinical teams to secure approval and meet governance requirements

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

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This advert is for Content Officer (Patient Information) with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Band 5 Officer (discipline unspecified) role. The advertised salary is £38,488 - £46,852 £38488. The contract type is 7 months (Fixed term). The application deadline is 22 Sep 2026.

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