Head of Communications

**Head of Communications**
London, W2 (with hybrid working; at least two days per week in the office)

**The Organisation**

We’re Imperial Health Charity, an organisation that helps our hospitals do more through grants, arts, volunteering and fundraising. We support the five hospitals of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust: Charing Cross, Hammersmith, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea, St Mary’s and the Western Eye.

We are currently seeking a Head of Communications to join our team on a full-time, permanent basis, working 35 hours per week.

**The Benefits**
- Salary starting at £60,079 per annum
- 25 days’ holiday per year plus bank holidays
- An extra day’s holiday to be taken one week either side of your birthday
- Support towards healthcare costs including eye tests and dental and support with mental health through counselling; additional access to gym discounts
- Interest-free season ticket loan
- Pension (with contributions of 10%)
- Life assurance
- Enhanced maternity/paternity and adoption leave
- Free entry to exhibitions and events at major London galleries as a member of our Staff Arts Club
- Access to a range of high street and online discounts
- Sick pay

This is an exceptional opportunity for a leader from a marketing, communications or public relations background with experience working in the charity sector.

In this engaging role, you’ll be a catalyst for change, enabling us to craft compelling content and campaigns that promote our important work and celebrate our impact.

We have clear direction and objectives focused around enhancing the patient journey, expanding our capacity and supporting health and wellbeing as well as a vision for the next three years.

So, if you want to play a vital part in helping us make a positive difference to patient care, we would love to hear from you

**The Role**

As our Head of Communications, you will raise our profile by developing our brand and strengthening engagement with stakeholders.

Leading our growing communications team, you will promote our work and celebrate the positive impact we make on our five London hospitals, collaborating with internal colleagues to grow our supporter database and maximise fundraising opportunities.

You will work as part of our senior management team, developing and implementing comprehensive communication plans to help us deliver impactful healthcare projects across our grants, arts and volunteering programmes.

Maintaining excellent relationships with the communications team at our partner NHS trust, you will also ensure we hit team targets by setting personal development goals, providing ongoing evaluation and preparing reports for our board and committees.

Additionally, you will:

- Lead in celebrating our achievements through story-telling, impact reporting and media relations

**About You**

To be considered as our Head of Communications, you will need:

- Experience in a marketing, communications or public relations role
- Experience of producing written and multimedia content for a wide range of
audiences
- Experience of media relations work, including effective relationship-building with
journalists and delivering high-profile media coverage
- Relevant experience in planning, delivering and evaluating communications and
engagement campaigns
- Line management experience
- Experience managing budgets

Other organisations may call this role Head of Communications and Campaigns, Head of Strategic Communications, Head of Marketing, Head of PR, Head of Marketing and Communications, Head of Communications and PR, or Head of Digital Communications.

Webrecruit and Imperial Health Charity are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

**Salary**: £60,079.00 per year

Work Location: In person

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