Communications Officer
| Posting date: | 17 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £31,049.00 to £37,796.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £31049.00 - £37796.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 October 2025 |
| Location: | Northampton, NN1 5BD |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9265-25-0450 |
Summary
Actively seek, plan, develop and produce multi-media communications content, ranging from social media soundbites and vlogs, through to informative short films to highlight service developments or staff achievements. Plan, develop and produce engaging and accurate written communications content, ranging from press releases to newsletter updates Support the creation and delivery of the staff newsletters and internal communications Interpret and simplify complex information to create engaging communications material, ensuring that messaging is easily understood and accessible by a diverse range of audiences Deliver assigned projects, leading on successful completion within agreed timescales and budget. Support the videography and photography of events such as staff award presentations and staff briefings. Support and advise departments on communications and engagement, ensuring that projects are planned, managed and delivered effectively Proactively plan, produce and publish material to enhance communications and engagement tools and activities, e.g. websites, intranet, social media, events and campaigns. Assist in the development and implementation of communication and engagement standards, helping to ensure standards are met and maintained and services are enabled to improve communications and engagement within their teams. Subject to skill availability/training, provide support to develop screensavers, animations and other graphics. Monitor the hospital social media channels and flag urgent issues Manage the communications and engagement team inbox, deciding on the appropriate action for each communication/request, allocating to team members and monitoring and following up responses Create and upload weekly screensavers in PowerPoint, in line with UHN branding Using database software to keep the press queries log up to date Keep the NGH staff Facebook group membership list up to date Contribute to and administrate the communications and engagement planning grid, which enables the proactive management of activity across the Group-wide team Ensure that urgent queries or issues are escalated to the appropriate team member Distribute posters and other materials across the hospital site and manage hospital noticeboards Answer phone calls and take the appropriate action, e.g. passing on messages/answering queries Prepare presentations and other materials as directed Photocopying, printing and laminating posters Represent the communications and engagement team at meetings across UHN and provide relevant specialist advice. Support communications and engagement colleagues in the delivery of other communications and engagement activity as appropriate. Evaluate your work with continuous improvement in mind. Provide a professional, responsive service with respect to handling phone calls and emails Administer procurement arrangements, e.g. arranging purchase orders and processing invoices, ensuring that stationery requirements for the team are met Collate information for reports and generate reports as required Ensure confidential and sensitive information is kept secure and meets GDPR requirements Undertake any other duties which might reasonably be required and which are commensurate with the grade of this post