# Junior Communications Officer > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/junior-communications-officer/b82493ea-03a4-4f87-9631-91ca0fe00670 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/junior-communications-officer/b82493ea-03a4-4f87-9631-91ca0fe00670.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Hatfield - **Region:** East of England - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Administrative and IT - **Salary:** £29812.00 to £32715.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-16T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-31T16:09:44.187Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8076846 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8076846?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.hpft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The Junior Communications Officer plays an important part in helping the Communications Team to support the Trust’s aims and objectives. The post holder provides general communications and administrative assistance to the Communications Team, helping organise events, supporting the team’s activity plans and helping ensure the team’s tasks and actions are completed to agreed deadlines. The post holder will take responsibility for key communication tasks such as screensavers and checking and updating the Trust’s intranet and public website. The post holder will be organised and enthusiastic with a passion to grow their career in communications. Whilst we welcome all applications from all suitable candidates, unfortunately, we will not be offering sponsorship for this role. ### Main duties of the job This role is a great mix of admin, organisation and creative communications work within a busy team. You’ll help keep everything running smoothly, supporting the staff intranet (The Hive), contributing to newsletters, managing our shared inbox, updating the website, and helping plan events like the staff awards. There’s lots of variety you could be writing content, checking and updating pages, organising meetings, tracking activity, or even taking photos at events to support campaigns. We are looking for someone who is organised, proactive and a real team player. You will need strong communication skills, good attention to detail, and the ability to manage your time and juggle different tasks. Being confident with IT and interested in digital content, social media and communications is important too. Most importantly, we want someone who is enthusiastic about communications, keen to learn, and happy working in a fast-paced, supportive team environment. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - Provide general communications and administrative support to the Communications Team. - Assist in maintaining and developing The Hive (staff intranet) - including researching, writing and uploading content and supporting editors and contributors from departments and services across the Trust. Carrying out regular audits of expired documents and other content, contacting authors to ensure information is updated or removed. - Support the Internal Communications Officers with the production and development of the weekly staff newsletters. - Managing the stakeholder database. - Assisting with the communications and engagement activity planner, ensuring team members are managing and delivering agreed actions. - Responsible for uploading and managing screensaver schedule (internal and public screens). - Arrange team meetings, produce agendas and distribute relevant papers, provide note taking and action planning. - Taking lead responsibility, working with other team members, to ensure the team’s generic email inbox (hpft.comms@nhs.net) is reviewed regularly throughout the day and messages are managed and responded to in a timely manner. - Manage the stationary/purchase order request/invoices etc for the department using the Trust’s procurement system. - Support production of communications activity reports, collating information and statistics to produce regular update reports on activities and impact. - Assist in maintaining and developing the Trust’s website including researching, assisting with written content and uploading content and supporting editors and contributors from departments and services across the Trust. Carrying out regular audits of pages and links. - Support the Communications Officer and External Communications Manager in monitoring the Trust’s social media channels. - Support the planning and organising of key events – in particular the staff awards and the Annual General Meeting. - Support the Communications Team by acting (when required) as a Trust photographer, capturing high-quality images at events and for campaigns, including cultural awareness days. Images will feature staff, service users (with consent) and members of the public, helping to create engaging photography for use across publications, campaigns and digital channels. - Positively contribute to the delivery of the Communications Team’s objectives. For full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role please refer to the job description and person specification documents attached. ## Person Specification ### Skills and Abilities **Essential** - Excellent verbal and written communication skills - Excellent organisational and administrative skills - An ability to co-ordinate your own work plans and manage your time effectively - Demonstrate excellent IT literate and keyboard skills - An ability to demonstrate flexibility and be able to adapt to a changing environment - The ability to work within a team ### Knowledge and experience **Essential** - Experience of a range of IT software packages including Microsoft office - Experience of using equipment to capture video and audio content - Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines **Desirable** - Experience of office administration - Experience of managing databases - Experience of arranging meetings and events - Knowledge of media and PR techniques - Experience of social media channels and their usage with different audiences. - Experience of writing for different audiences ### Qualifications and Education **Essential** - At least five GCSEs in grades A – C including English and Mathematics **Desirable** - A level English, NVQ/SVQ Level 3, or a BTEC National qualification relating to public relations/communications, marketing, journalism or digital communications. ## Documents - [refer a friend (pdf, 160.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2083) - [staff benefits (pdf, 888.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2165) - [job description & person specification (pdf, 504.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10504944) - [guidance on ai usage in job applications (pdf, 55.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2305) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.