Communications and Engagement Officer

**Role**o**utline**

Post: Communications and Engagement Officer (Healthy Minds)

Salary scale:
Grade 2: £24,242 - £27,628

Contract:
Initial 12-month fixed term contract with opportunity to extend based on future funding

Hours:
37 hours

Location:
BDC Mind office, BD1 4QU and Scorex House, BD1 4AS

Responsible to:
Communications and Engagement Manager (Healthy Minds)Probationary period:
Six months

Closing date:
15 July 2025

Interview date:
21 July 2025

Questions:
**About**u**s**
- Bradford District and Craven Mind is a thriving, independent mental health charity with a clear purpose to promote positive mental wellbeing and empower and help people experiencing issues with their mental health to manage and work towards recovery and fulfilment.
- We do this through:
Building community and individual resilience for better mental wellbeing-
- Providing early intervention advice and support-
- Supporting people in crisis
- Empowering and helping people to recover and sustain improved wellbeing

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**Join us and**youll** receive**:
25 days annual leave per year, rising to 28 days with length of service plus bank holidays
- Up to two additional leave days to use each year to support your wellbeing.
- Simply Health Cash Plan to claim back on personal health costs including dental, optical, prescriptions, physiotherapy and more.
- Employee Assistance Service including 24/7 confidential mental health support and access to structured therapy sessions.
Generous pension scheme and employer contribution to help you plan for a secure future.

Discount schemes including Company Shop and Blue Light Card.

Excellent personal development opportunities including access to Clinical Supervision.

- Enhanced sick pay after your six-month probation.

- Accredited employer with Mindful Employer, Disability Confident and Real Living Wage.

**Role**b**ackground**
The Healthy Minds website is the go-to website for better mental health and wellbeing in the Bradford district and Craven area. It was developed in partnership with the NHS and Bradford Council and lists more than 300 services and apps from around 80 organisations, as well as information and advice about mental health. Under the guidance of the Communications and Engagement team at BDC Mind, this role will increase access to the website and the wider Healthy Minds movement of services, events and mental health information. If you're a creative communicator with a passion for partnership working and mental health, wed love to hear from you Please note this role is advertised for an initial fixed term of 12 months but with the potential for extension based on future funding.

**Role**p**urpose**
You will help the people of Bradford District and Craven find and have access to the right mental health support that meets their needs via effective delivery of the Healthy Minds priority.

**Role**o**utcomes**-
- Supporting the Communications and Engagement team to deliver against the Healthy Minds annual targets.

- Creating and delivering the social media plan across a range of channels including management of an advertising budget for paid social content.

- Produce newsletters using Mailchimp to key stakeholder audiences.

- Design, develop and distribute effective print and online communications materials including development of accessible materials targeting priority groups.

- Create, edit, and promote accessible video materials.

- Use Canva, Adobe Creative Suite, CapCut and Veed with confidence.

- Copywrite in tone of voice for a range of formats.

- Effectively manage content on the Healthy Minds website via content management systems.

- Provide communications and engagement support for the Community Mental Health Transformation Programme.

- Act as an ambassador and represent Bradford District and Craven Mind, Bradford District and Craven Health and Care Partnership and the Healthy Minds priority at external functions and events, giving talks and presentations as required.

- Consistently working in alignment with our aims, objectives, policies, core values and standards set out in our employee handbook.

- Fully participating in all relevant training to develop and maintain your performance in the role.

- Demonstrating an ongoing commitment to our values: Caring Always, Working Together, Supporting Everyone, Enabling All and Continually Improving.

- Performing other duties as reasonably required within the role.

**Person**s**pecification**
BDC Mind is committed to promoting mental health awareness, reducing stigma, and improving the quality of life for people with mental health challenges. We value diversity, inclusion and lived experiences when recruiting our staff and volunteers.

**Qualifications**
Essential:

- A minimum of 5 GCSEs (or equivalent) grades A-C must include English and Maths)

Desirable:



**Experience**
Essential:

- Reasonable experience in a similar marketing, communications or engagement role

- Copywriting for different platforms

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