Corporate Communications Executive

Barts Health NHS Trust, one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, provides safe and compassionate care to more than 6,000 patients every single day. To support our group of hospitals, we’re looking for a bright, enthusiastic and highly motivated communications professional to join our team.

As a communications team, we are responsible for promoting and protecting the reputation of the trust. We do this through providing strategic communications support to our executive and hospital management teams, proactive and responsive media and stakeholder relations, engaging social and digital channels, creatively promoting our brand and inspiring internal communications.

The corporate communications executive will work across the team, supporting the development and implementation of trust-wide communications campaigns targeted at staff, patients, the public and our partners. You will deliver impactful and engaging communications, incorporating media relations, public affairs, internal communications, digital communications, and brand and design into your integrated campaigns.

This is a full-time post based in Canary Wharf for a period of 7 months to cover maternity leave.

The corporate communications executive will be responsible for providing high-quality communications support across our busy team. Working across all functions including public affairs, media, digital communications, internal communications and brand, the corporate communications executive will play a key role in planning our work and coordinating the delivery of communications strategies and plans for trust-wide projects and operational day-to-day activities that support the delivery of Barts Health objectives and business decisions.

You will be the first point of contact for people requiring communications support. Providing impeccable customer service, you will work with clients to develop high-quality communications briefs and signpost them to the right support to meet their needs. Reporting into the corporate communications manager, you will manage our forward plan, content plan and design workflow to ensure the communications team runs smoothly, cohesively and professionally. You will also support our hospital and specialist communications officers as required.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which ourWeCarevalues and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by ourWeCarevalues and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Professional responsibilities
- Delivery of the trust’s communications and engagement strategy, and corresponding plans
- Support the corporate communications manager to implement internal and external communications plans for trust-wide projects
- Provide communications advice and support to all trust staff
- Ensure that projects and design requests are planned in to the team and planners are kept up to date
- Write, edit and produce creative and engaging content for communications channels
- Support the delivery of communications in the event of a major incident
- Evaluate the effectiveness of communications, using a range of formal and informal measures and tools.

Financial responsibilities
- Commission and procure products and services - continually striving for the best value for money

Other responsibilities
- Organise, gather and analyse information to support the team (and directorate’s) business objectives.
- Develop plans and utilise project management techniques to ensure activities occur in partnership with other internal and external stakeholders and that the directorate’s and organisation’s milestones and objectives are achieved.
- Identifies, reports and manages risk.
- Develops the service in line with the organisation’s changing needs.
- To contribute effectively to corporate Barts Health decision-making in a variety of forums and to facilitate the contribution of others to this process.

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