Total 2 pr media communications job vacancies in huddersfield hd1 2lr

Reporting directly to the Director of Corporate Affairs, the Head of Communications will be the Trust’s professional communications lead accountable for all aspects of internal and external communications and contribute to managing the profile and reputation of the Trust.

The post holder will lead on providing advice and management of all aspects of communications to build and maintain a positive reputation with colleagues, key stakeholders, patients, partners and the public. This will include responsibility for internal colleague communications and external communications with partner organisations, local, regional and national stakeholders.

The role will require close liaison with the Trust’s Foundations for our future Programme to support the development and delivery of a communications and engagement strategy and associated plans relating to the significant programme underway across the Trust.

Ensuring colleagues, Trust members and partner stakeholders are kept informed of key strategic issues related to the Trust

Developing constructive relationships with the public and media.

Leading and developing communications across the trust and with its partners on the significant transformation and reconfiguration plans

Representing the trust in sensitive and political situations, delivering difficult messages where required to high-level audiences.

Coordinating communications activities in support of key projects and supporting colleagues to manage the strategic public relation impacts of decisions.

· Developing and delivering communications plans to support strategic objectives.

Management of the delegated communications budget and supervision / line management of a colleagues within the communications team.

· Providing expert advice, guidance and support to members of staff in any dealings they have with the media and to ensure senior members of staff have appropriate support and training.

· Leading and advising on reputation management, working with communications teams across partners and regulators to align communication messages.

We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS – yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.

The post holder will be responsible for managing the work of the Trust’s communications function and service offer and this includes line management and budget responsibility for communications support staff.

Key Areas of Responsibility:

Responsibilities include:

· Ensuring colleagues, Trust members and partner stakeholders are kept informed of key strategic issues related to the Trust.

· Creating ongoing opportunities for people to contribute ideas and share good practice through a range of communication channels.

· Developing constructive relationships with the public and media.

· Leading and developing communications across the trust and with its partners on the significant transformation and reconfiguration plans

· Representing the trust in sensitive and political situations, delivering difficult messages where required to high-level audiences.

· Handlinghighly complex, sensitive, and contentious information, including presenting information about projects and dependencies to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders in formal settings(for example this could relate to service and reconfiguration plans, patient complaints, coroner inquests, crisis management scenarios etc)

· Coordinating communications activities in support of key projects and supporting colleagues to manage the strategic public relation impacts of decisions.

· Developing and delivering communications plans to support strategic objectives.

· Management of the delegated communications budget and supervision / line management of a colleagues within the communications team.

· Providing expert advice, guidance and support to members of staff in any dealings they have with the media and to ensure senior members of staff have appropriate support and training.

· Leading and advising on reputation management, working with communications teams across partners and regulators to align communication messages.

· Undertaking research to prepare and agree reactive and proactive media statements, identifying media spokespeople and collate and analyse media coverage.

· Lead the development of and manage the content for all communication channels as well as specific projects.

· Identify proactive media opportunities, patient stories and experience to ensure the trust’s aims are heard, understood and relevant.

· Lead development of the trust’s website, intranet and increased use of social media to positively promote reputation, including analysis and reporting mechanisms.

· Provide oversight of communications materials produced by ensuring outputs support strategic priorities, appropriate brand application and reputation management.


This advert closes on Wednesday 6 Nov 2024

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Community Marketing and PR Assistant

Fixed Term, Part Time

£23,344 per annum, pro rata

Location: Colchester

Please note that this is a fixed term contract / secondment opportunity till the 31st of December 2025 and is a part time role, offering 18.5 hours per week which will ideally be 2 full days and 1 half day, but all possible working patterns will be considered and can be discussed at interview, but there will need to be some flexibility to meet business need.

Most of the time you will be based in an ACL centre or out in the community so remote/home-based working will be minimal.

The Opportunity

Adult Community Learning (ACL) is Essex County Council's (ECC) provider of lifelong learning experiences for Essex residents.

ACL offers qualifications to help people move nearer to, enter or progress within the workplace or gain skills to enhance life chances.  The service focuses many of its programmes and activities on the hardest to reach communities within Essex.  ACL learners have access to a diverse range of non-accredited courses which encourage, healthy lifestyles, social inclusion and access to work. 

The Community Marketing and PR Assistant will raise awareness of ACL services across Essex. They will work within the community supporting the existing ACL Marketing Team.

Accountabilities

• Under the direction of the ACL Marketing & PR Lead, create and support the co-ordination of multichannel communications to raise awareness of ACL courses.
• Work with the Marketing & PR Officers to create localised social media campaigns that increase enrolments
• Liaise with relevant internal and external stakeholders to promote ACL services in community places and spaces
• Create and update website content as required
• Assist in the production of offline marketing materials, for instance posters, leaflets, campaign flyers, letters and adverts.
• Attend relevant events, and as required set up events, to promote the ACL offer
• Assist with paperwork including collation of digital feedback forms
• Carry out other relevant tasks as identified by the ACL Marketing & PR Lead

The Experience You Will Bring

Essential:

• Excellent communication skills and ability to talk to people from all walks of live.
• Previous experience of professional use of social media and marketing.
• Able to work under own initiative to achieve targets and positive outcomes
• A proven track record within a sales / target led role.

Desirable:

• Level 2 IAG qualification or be prepared to work towards one.
• Experience of sales and marketing within an educational setting.
• Previous experience of organising events.

Please note that the job role requires you to be mobile throughout an operational area. Therefore, the post holder will need to have a driving licence and access to a vehicle, or the ability to meet the mobility requirements of the role through other means.