Editor / Internal Communications Officer

2 weeks ago


Liverpool, United Kingdom Royal College of Physicians Full time

**Location: The Spine, Liverpool (hybrid working)**
**Salary: Grade 4: £** **£27,123 per annum**
**Contract type: 12-month fixed term contract (maternity cover)**
**Working hours: Full time (35 hours a week), standard working hours between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday.**

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is a rewarding and friendly place to work with an incredible history, dating back to our foundation in 1518. We are a professional membership body for physicians - doctors who work in hospitals - with 40,000 members in the UK and around the world working to improve patient care and reduce illness. Our activities focus on educating, improving and influencing for better health and care.

**Purpose of the role**

We are looking to appoint an experienced editor / internal communications officer to join the Corporate Communications and Publishing (CC&P) team for 12 months. This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive and organised individual to provide an effective editorial service and internal comms support to the RCP, delivering projects and materials to a high standard and on time.

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Copy-editing and proofreading text to ensure that all material is produced to house style and to a high editorial and presentational standard.
- Project managing the production of a variety of print and digital materials for a range of audiences.
- Restructuring and rewriting content as necessary to ensure clarity and coherence.
- Providing support for internal communications at the RCP, including supporting the day-to-day running of Spark, the RCP’s intranet, and leading work on the weekly staff newsletter.

**About you**:

- Educated to degree level (preferably in life sciences) or equivalent experience.
- Extensive experience of copy-editing and proofreading accurately according to a defined house style.
- Experience of writing, rewriting and restructuring copy according to purpose, style of publication and audience.
- Confident in using intranet and website content management systems.
- Experience of generating and supporting ideas for staff engagement.
- Competent user of Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat, including fully competent user of Word.
- Experience of working in a healthcare-related organisation.
- Experience in marking up artwork and liaising with designers.

For more information about the role, please view the **job description**.**

**Our benefits**

Working at the RCP comes with lots of benefits designed to ensure that you feel valued and supported in your role. We offer a minimum of 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) and our annual leave purchase scheme allows you to buy up to 5 additional days holiday a year. In line with our values, we provide a broad range of learning and development opportunities, an annual wellbeing programme and a peer award scheme. We offer a group personal pension plan with 7% employer contribution, life assurance, interest-free season ticket loan and an annual pay award. We also provide a range of health-related benefits and discounts for our staff, including an employee assistance programme, occupational health assessments, enhanced sick pay, a cycle to work scheme and discounts on cinema tickets and a range of high street brands.

**How to apply**

**Closing date: 28 June 2023**

**Interview date: 11 July 2023**
- The RCP is all about our people - our members, staff, volunteers and leaders. We educate, influence and collaborate to improve health and healthcare for everyone and know we can only do this by being inclusive, encouraging and celebrating diverse perspectives. Welcoming into our community people who represent the 21st-century medical workforce and the diverse population of patients we serve is a priority for us._



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