Job vacancy: Communications Lead Hosted Business, Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Chesterfield

Job summary

Main area: Communications
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 166-W&OD-6997523

Employer: Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Chesterfield Royal Hospital
Town: Chesterfield
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 Per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 21/03/2025 23:59

Communications Lead Hosted Business

NHS AfC: Band 6

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and person specification for the full duties and responsibilities of the role.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Educated to degree-level or demonstrable equivalent experience.

Desirable criteria

Evidence of continuing professional development or training, with sound knowledge of best practice as it relates to corporate communications and campaigns

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of delivering strategic multi-channel communications and campaigns, with tangible evidence of effective delivery and measurable impact.
Experience of shaping and delivering communications and campaign activity to influence behaviour change.
Experience of developing and managing corporate communications in a public facing environment, including using social media as a reputation management and community engagement tool; creating e-newsletters; creating high quality, internet-ready content; and optimising channels.
Experience of delivering a strategic communications plan with the ability to turn complex information into creative, compelling, relevant, and engaging content that tells a clear and consistent story to its target audience.
Experience of giving professional communications advice to senior leaders, with the confidence to provide appropriate challenge.
Experience or briefing, commissioning and managing external suppliers to deliver high-quality, value for money communications and campaigns activity and channels.

Desirable criteria

Experience of the NHS or similar large-scale organisation with a significant public-facing remit.
Good understanding of key issues facing the NHS.

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

Excellent organisational skills with a methodical approach to ensuring best quality.
Ability to work at both a strategic and operational level and to take a long-term view while juggling day-to-day, unforeseen or time sensitive tasks.
Ability to lead and manage people and teams helping staff to thrive in a supportive, learning environment, while addressing performance where needed.
Ability to bring people together around shared plans and priorities, with the expertise and gravitas.
Skilled in communications monitoring and evaluation with the ability to produce reports, including use of social media management platforms, Google analytics, newsletter software and CMS.

Flexible Working

If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.

COVID19 Vaccination

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.

UK Points-based immigration system

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Please note that from 1 January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship here Work in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

It is vital that you provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form. Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

If you are applying for a vacancy in health or adult social care, you may be eligible to apply for the Health and Care Worker visa instead, which is cheaper to apply for and you do not need to pay the annual immigration health surcharge.

Communications

Communications throughout the application process will be via e-mail therefore please check your e-mail account and Trac account regularly. References are also requested by email (where possible). Therefore to speed up the recruitment process please provide an email address for all referees when completing your application form.

If you require any support in completing the application form, please do not hesitate to contact the HR Support Services team on 01246 513177 and we will be happy to provide assistance.

Please see the attached documents and links in relation to working for Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. In particular, the general conditions of employment and benefits of working for the trust.

This role is part of the integrated health and social care community across Derbyshire, where there are many opportunities to work across different locations and providers developing new and different skills. Whilst this role is initially based in Chesterfield there may be future opportunities to be based at different locations within the health and social care community which we may talk to you about in the future.