Communications Officer

We are looking for a creative, passionate and committed communications professional to join our friendly communications team and work specifically on communications activity for our new electronic patient record or 'EPR'.

It is the job for you....
- if are passionate about everything Sheffield.
- if you can tell a great story about the brilliant work we do with people who have mental health illnesses, learning disabilities, autism or substance misuse problems.
- if you can help us develop our communications offer with your knowledge of the latest ways to communicate with target audiences.
- if you want to lead on delivering all communications related to the roll out of our new electronic patient record (EPR).

We are a small team, so it's a busy working environment. We support each other and we can't wait to welcome new colleagues to join us.
- Contribute to developing, implementing and evaluating the communications strategy for the organisation and our electronic patient record.
- Work with the project team to translate their work for range of stakeholders including staff and service users.
- Use graphic design packages to produce creative content for our target audiences.
- Assist in the organisation of events.
- Maintain and develop our website and extranet.
- Lead evaluation of our communications activity.

We are passionate about providing the very best care to the people we support, and we're looking for amazing people who share this passion to join us.

What is it that makes our Trust such a special place to work? Well, it's all about the people. Our staff, service users, carers and families all come from such diverse backgrounds and all have expertise and stories to share.

It’s important that you feel supported in your role, that the people who you work with are as passionate as you are and that your health and wellbeing is taken care of

If you're interested in developing your career, you'll have access to a range of training and education opportunities, including apprenticeships, work experience and placements, as well as the chance to get involved in research.

We are all very proud of the difference we make to people's lives each and every day and if that's something that you'd like to be part of we'd love to have you with us.

Duties
- To support the communications and EPR teams in the delivery of the EPR Strategy by devising and sharing engaging content about the programme across different platforms.
- To attend and support at EPR roadshows.
- Contribute to the ongoing reassessment of the EPR plan and strategy with communications advice and guidance
- To develop, research, write and produce engaging communications materials for a variety of audiences.
- Take lead on producing materials such as leaflets, copy for the website and the internal staff newsletter.
- To manage film production relevant to the EPR roll out strategy - having editorial control and managing the production process.
- Manage the administration of media enquiries relevant to the EPR roll out strategy, ensuring that all media enquiries are logged, answered or referred on.
- To keep a log of enquiries and coverage, fielding and where appropriate managing enquiries.
- To develop and maintain systems for all communications activities, including media monitoring and logging of press calls. Remove this ?
- To input into the collation of a communications dashboard, summarising and analysing the output from the Communications Team.
- To input into a weekly update of press coverage about Sheffield Health and Social Care as well as other relevant regional and national stories for executives and leaders within the Trust.
- To support the day-to-day updating of the Trust’s web and intranet sites with relevant content to the EPR roll out strategy.
- Deliver super user training to build a network of content authors within the Trust for the website and to curate the intranet daily.
- To support event co-ordination by undertaking external and internal promotion, procuring physical materials.
- Overseeing the use of video content and presentations and running live online coverage.
- To support the Communications Department in administrative duties by co-managing the Communications, Intranet and Website Enquiries inboxes on issues relevant to the EPR roll out strategy
- To assist the Communications Team and EPR Team in the administration and supply of up to date and accurate information to staff via the extranet.
- Leading on both internal and external communications activity such as the Trust’s social media channels and the weekly internal newsletter, overseeing the use of a consistent tone of voice and consistent and accessible messaging.
- To assist and support the production and implementation of communications plans and campaigns relevant to the EPR roll out strategy, leading on this where appropriate.
- To input into the Trust’s weekly e-bulleting for staff, overseeing the production and editing of articles and items of releva