EPR Communications Manager
| Posting date: | 05 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £47,810.00 to £54,710.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £47810.00 - £54710.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 December 2025 |
| Location: | Steeton, BD20 6TD |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9423-25-0494 |
Summary
Develop and implement a comprehensive communications strategy for the EPR programme, aligned to the Trusts wider strategy, covering the full gamut of internal and external communications. Create clear, accessible, and engaging content to explain the purpose, benefits, and progress of the EPR programme. Work closely with programme leads, IT, clinical teams, the Trusts communications team, communications colleagues at Bradford teaching Hospitals NHS FT and Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS FT, and external suppliers to manage and coordinate messaging and updates. Develop a stakeholder management plan that facilitates two-way communication. Produce content for MP and Ministerial briefings, Overview and Scrutiny Committee and regulatory bodies as required. Monitor and manage with support from subject matter experts and workstream leads - programme feedback mechanisms; in particular the EPR programme email inbox. Develop a responsive approach to requests for communications support, helping workstream leads to create key messages and communications materials to support them to effectively communicate with staff and stakeholders. Establish KPIs and methods for monitoring the effectiveness of communications activities, using the results to inform and adapt future strategies, contributing to the existing reporting mechanisms. Provide expert advice to senior leaders on communications risks and opportunities. Work with the programme team and other communications colleagues to provide coordinated and comprehensive communications support before, during and after the critical go-live period. Work with colleagues to support the delivery of key events and briefings throughout the programme, developing materials, dealing with event coordination and ensuring participants are fully informed. Appropriately manage confidential, complex and sensitive information, exercising discretion and upholding high professional and ethical standards at all times. Please refer to attached Full Job Description & Person Specification.