Health Fact Checker

**Salary**: £, - £,
**Location**: Remote first with an office available in Central London and regular team meetings in the office
**Reporting to**: Steve Nowottny
**Employment Type**: Permanent, or on a one-year fixed term contract if preferred. We are happy to talk about flexible working.
**Application Closing Date**: April

**Introduction to FF and its culture**:
Full Fact, the UK’s independent fact checking organisation, is recruiting a health fact checker to help lead our work combating health misinformation. If you have expertise in health, and an interest in communicating with the public, this is a unique chance to do ground-breaking work when it couldn’t matter more.

Focusing on health and in particular clinical and medical misinformation, you’ll be researching and writing fact checks, explainers and features, and will learn how to identify and expose patterns in misinformation. You’ll also use your expertise to help the wider Full Fact team - for example informing our policy and communications work - and will help build our links with organisations and experts who can reduce the harm that bad health information does.

Full Fact fights bad information. Our team of independent fact checkers, technologists and campaigners works to find, expose and counter it. Your work will be seen by millions and help tackle the harm caused by misleading information.

**Job Definition**:
Our health fact checker plays a key role within the editorial team at Full Fact, particularly during the pandemic when bad information has such high potential for harm.

This role could suit a medical professional looking for a new challenge on a temporary or permanent basis - our last health fact checker was a trainee GP taking a year out. Equally you might be a researcher, a specialist health journalist or have other experience working in the field.

In addition to the day-to-day fact checking there is also the opportunity to craft and deliver specific projects to further our work in this field, such as our recent collaboration with Pregnant Then Screwed.
**Outcomes**:

- Regularly monitor media organisations, social media, public figures and politicians for health misinformation
- Pitch fact checks and features based on a good understanding of the health misinformation landscape and Full Fact’s aims
- Produce accurate, engaging and publication-ready copy to combat the spread of bad information
- Engage with other teams to further the work of Full Fact
- Working with colleagues, hit weekly and monthly publication targets
- Work with other teams within Full Fact, such as policy and communications, to ensure we have a good overview of the health misinformation landscape
- Build links with other organisations and experts who can help reduce the harm that bad health information does

**What we are looking for from you**:

- Strong research and writing skills- Good understanding of public debate in the UK and sensitivity to the political context Full Fact works in
- Significant experience working in a health-related field, for example with a medical or research background or having worked as a specialist health journalist
- An ability to understand and master new topics rapidly
- Ability to build on pre-existing knowledge of health topics, for example by developing contacts
- Understanding of digital channels, audiences and formats
- An understanding of what it takes to meet the highest standards of accuracy and balance
- Communication skills, and the ability to communicate with a non-specialist audience in any format
- An understanding of Full Fact’s style and principles
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Ideally _experience of identifying and correcting misleading claims in public debate

**What we offer**:
Starting salary of £, - £,, depending on experience, either on a permanent or mth contract.

Workplace Pension

Generous holidays
- days holiday plus bank holidays.
- In addition, we close the office and give additional days off for a period between Christmas and New Year.
- Day off for moving home.

Comfortable, centrally located London office with good transport links.

Employee Assistance Programme.
**How to apply**:
Upload your CV and cover letter using the link below by am on April.

Please note that to keep our recruitment process open and fair, we will not negotiate salaries outside the advertised range.

The interview panel will be Steve Nowottny (editor), Will Moy (chief executive) and Pippa Allen-Kinross (acting deputy editor).

The process starts off with an anonymised covering letter and CV. This will be read by at least two people to produce a shortlist for interview.

The first round interviews will be a phone (not video) interview, lasting no more than half an hour, at a time that’s convenient for you. We will record it so at least two people can review each interview to decide who we invite back for the second round. The recordings will be deleted at the end of the process.

The second round will include a structured interview a