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Main area
Communications
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity cover)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
818-COR254
Employer
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Robey House, Lincoln County Hospital
Town
Lincoln
Salary
£39,959 - £48,117 Per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
30/07/2026 23:59

Employer heading

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust logo

Senior Communications Officer

NHS AfC: Band 6

We recognise that outstanding care can only be delivered through our people.  We want to attract people who can help us deliver our vision. We want in return to help people achieve what they wish in their careers in the NHS at LCHS.

We are always keen to welcome highly skilled, committed and compassionate individuals to our teams – people who put patients at the heart of everything they do and are ready to help us achieve our vision.

 

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.

This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.

The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).

Our Group values guide everything we do. They are:

·       Compassionate - We care about people - Compassionate is the act of showing empathy, kindness, and respect to others, recognising their individual needs and circumstances. It involves listening, understanding, and supporting others in a way that makes them feel valued, safe, and cared for.

·       Collaborative - We work together as a team - Collaborative is working inclusively and respectfully with others to achieve shared goals. It involves open communication, valuing diverse perspectives, and building trust to create a supportive and effective team environment.

·       Innovative - We strive to improve - Innovative is the process of exploring new ideas, approaches, and technologies to improve care, services, and working practices. It involves creativity, curiosity, and a willingness to take risks in a safe and supportive environment.

If you believe in them too, then you are ready to join the LCHG team.

 

We’ve taken great pride in building working environments where staff always feel valued, cared for and part of a team. Without doubt this is a challenging yet very rewarding job that is at the centre of health and care in Lincolnshire - making a positive difference to our patients. We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.

 

REMEMBER - Please ensure you read all information prior to applying for any job roles.  Please note any CV's or covering letters received via email will not be accepted without an online application being completed. Any applications via agency will also not be accepted.

Job overview

Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group is seeking a Senior Communications Officer for a 12 month period. This is an exciting opportunity to join the Communications and Engagement Team in an exciting and innovative multi-Trust Group, responsible for both hospital and community services across Lincolnshire.

 Based in Lincoln, but with travel to other sites across Lincolnshire, this role will require you to work as part of a wider Group Communications and Engagement team to deliver a comprehensive communications service across both Lincolnshire Community Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (ULTH0.

 You will be joining the Group at an exciting time, as it embraces the drive to shift more care into the community, and to use modern storytelling to support both staff and patients on that journey.

 

 

You will be an enthusiastic team player, with excellent interpersonal, organisation and writing skills and experience of press office, internal comms and stakeholder management.

 

For further information and a discussion about this role please contact Anna Richards on 07900 790232.

Main duties of the job

The post includes general communications duties including delivery of internal and external communications projects and media, social media management, stakeholder management and communications and supporting and advising Group leadership around communications activity.

 

 

 

Working for our organisation

At LCHS, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in LCHS’ workforce. 

LCHS recognises the increasing demand for more flexibility in working practices in order to accommodate the personal goals and commitments that employees experience at different stages during their working lives.  Flexible working opportunities such as part-time working, compressed hours, job shares, and hybrid working models can help staff to balance their personal and work commitments.  Arrangements can be put in place if it can be shown that the needs of the individual can be balanced with those of the service and the impact on other team members, enabling the Trust to recruit and retain skilled staff, raise staff morale, reduce absenteeism and respond to changing service needs more effectively.

We are an ambassador of a learning culture that will support the right individual to progress in their chosen career through an ‘earn while you learn’ apprenticeship programme.  Visit our Learning and Development page to find out more https://www.lincolnshirecommunityhealthservices.nhs.uk/join-us/learning-and-dev

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The role includes dealing with media enquiries, writing communications, graphic design, photography and videography, intranet and web publishing and social media.

Person specification

Specific requirements

Essential criteria
  • Ability to travel within Lincolnshire and to regional and national meetings on occasion
Desirable criteria
  • Access to vehicle for work purposes

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Specialist knowledge across a range of topics to degree level, such as Communications, PR, Marketing communication Experience in the communications field to postgraduate diploma level
Desirable criteria
  • PR, marketing, media or journalism qualification

Skills and competencies

Essential criteria
  • Excellent interpersonal and listening skills
  • Ability to establish credibility and good working relationships at all levels
  • Excellent written and oral skills
  • Ability to effectively manage a number of different, competing priorities with confidence and to tight deadlines
Desirable criteria
  • Creative skills - able to design and develop in-house newsletters, briefings, posters
  • Video production and editing

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrate expertise in the techniques which underpin effective communication and public relations
Desirable criteria
  • Website publishing, open source software packages such as FrontPage, Adobe Acrobat writer, InDesign

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Specialist experience in PR or communications
  • Dealing with crisis communications
  • Using social media to engage and for PR
Desirable criteria
  • Arranging high profile events e.g. Ministerial or royal visits

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Timewise-Flex Positive EmployerApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesStonewall Health ChampionsArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality Mark

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Anna Richards
Job title
Deputy Director of Communications and Engagement
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07500790232
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