Job overview

Ready help us to make a real difference for families, children, and young people in Hertfordshire? We’re looking for a creative, energetic Communications Support Officer to help drive our public health nursing message across digital and print channels.

You’ll be at the heart of our communications; managing social media, websites, newsletters, and campaigns. Build strong connections between the Trust, staff, service users, and local communities. Work with partnership with One YMCA and Hertfordshire County Council Public Health and Hertfordshire Schools to ensure our messages reach the families and young people and professionals.

What you’ll bring:

• A degree in communications, PR, journalism, marketing, or equivalent experience
• Proven skills in digital communications, campaign delivery, and relationship building
• Outstanding written and verbal communication
• Flexibility, resilience, and the ability to thrive under pressure

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will:

• Support and develop the Trust’s public health nursing presence online, social media and other digital or in-print communication, through effective market research, communications strategy and engagement with external stakeholders and internal teams.
• Support the development of up-to-date, accessible and informative content on public health nursing services and activities and public health information on the website www.hct.nhs.uk and health for under 5s website.
• Support with the development and implementation of review, a social media strategy for the trust’s public health nursing teams, which is in line with service specifications and the trust’s corporate policies and approaches.
• Oversee critical communication with key stakeholders including schools, charities, family centres, early education and daycare providers, and other health providers.

·         plan, organise, and manage their own workload effectively to deliver and maintain an efficient service, keeping to timescales in an environment where priorities frequently change.

·         develop, implement, and maintain effective systems and processes for effective administrative support, maximising use of technology.

Working for our organisation

A big thank you for considering joining us at Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust. You’ll find it a great place to work with many benefits offered to you as a member of our staff

We put our patients, their families and carers at the centre of our vision - Outstanding Services and Healthier Communities  
Our staff are proud to be Innovative, Caring and Agile in their work to help achieve the Trust vision
We welcome diversity in our workforce and are interested in applicants from all backgrounds and ages

We don’t want you to miss out so we’d like you to know that if we have a high level of interest in this role, the vacancy may close prior to the advertised closing date, so please make your application as soon as possible - Apply now

You’ve made a great decision to apply to join to HCT - we’re looking forward to taking the next steps of the journey with you.

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