Job summary
- Main area
- Communications and Involvement
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- 18 months (Fixed term for 18 months)
- Hours
- Part time
- Home or remote working
- Job ref
- 274-11683-COR
- Employer
- Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hybrid - Trust Headquarters, St George's
- Town
- Lincoln
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/09/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 03/10/2025
Employer heading
Communications Officer
NHS AfC: Band 5
Job overview
Are you a motivated, creative and innovative communication professional with an eye for a good story and ability to communicate complex topics in a simple and engaging way? We are looking for someone with strong copywriting and organisational skills to join our small, but multi-talented team, to help celebrate mental health, learning disability and autism services in Lincolnshire.
Main duties of the job
There is lots to be proud of in local NHS services and this role is instrumental in helping keep our staff, service users and public up-to-date and involved in everything happening. You'll do this by producing an excellent standard of written work, creative social media and digital communications and supporting a co-production approach in everything we do.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills are essential to be able to work across the organisation at all levels. You will often need to work with complex briefs and tight deadlines, so a close attention to detail is imperative.
This role will also support the development of user friendly and accessible patient information, to help people understand the support available and feel confident in the service they are accessing.
No two days are ever the same so being adaptable is essential, as is the ability to manage your own time. Come help us drive excellent communications every day.
Working for our organisation
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.
When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:
• Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
• Competitive annual leave allowance
• Car leasing scheme
• NHS pension scheme
• Free eye tests
• Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent in communications, public relations, marketing or journalism or equivalent experience in related role
- Five GCSE’s grade A-C (or equivalent) including English and mathematics
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of continuing professional development in communications, public relations journalism or marketing tools, techniques and guidance
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant work experience in the associated field
- Knowledge and experience of communications, public relations, journalism and marketing communications techniques, approaches, procedures
- Ability and willingness to develop new skills and maintain knowledge of emergency communication tools, techniques ad channels
- Experience of writing engaging copy for different audiences
- Ability to turn complex information into easily understood messages, suitable for wide range of audiences and different channels
- Experience of using and managing social media accounts
- Proven experience of working with the media, handling calls and enquiries positively, professionally and timely
- Experience of working with a variety of people and groups, including staff, public, community and voluntary sector organisations
- Working with confidential information and in sensitive situations
Desirable criteria
- Working in the NHS or other complex environment
- Project management skills
- Event management
- Experience of basic desktop publishing and video production
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Writing and presentation skills, with the ability to present sensitive and complex information to staff and media
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, handling challenging issues and conflicting deadlines on a regular basis
- Excellent influencing, negotiating and persuasive skills
- Competent and capable with high attention to detail
- Ability to work effectively on own initiative or in a team
- Excellent IT skills including all Microsoft Office programmes
- Social media management
- Desktop publishing skills
- Ability to deal sensitively and confidently with complex, sensitive and distressing information
Desirable criteria
- Experience of using specialist graphic design and video production software inc Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, premier pro)
- Experience of using web content management systems
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jo Walker
- Job title
- Head of Communications and Involvement
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07966 969907
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