Communications & Engagement Assistant

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

The communications and engagement team are at the centre of the Trust's ambitious plans to provide better care for our patients and improve the health of our communities.

Now we need someone to join our friendly team to help us manage our workload and be even more effective in providing great communications for colleagues and the public.

This new post had been designed to help the whole team to work more efficiently and productively and we are all looking forward to finding the right person for the role.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will have great organisational skills, a desire to learn and an eye for detail.

Supporting and helping to organise our online content and social media is a key part of the job and we also expect the role to enable the team to plan better, support colleagues to be more effective communicators, and to monitor and evaluate our efforts so we can continuously improve.

About us

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviors that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical, and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.

Date posted

22 April 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£24,008 to £25,553 a year Per annum incl HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

151-SR-47

Job locations

Frimley Park or Wexham Park

Portsmouth Road

Frimley and Wexham

GU16 7UJ

Job description

Job responsibilities

You can read more about the key tasks and responsibilities associated with this role in the job description attached with this advert, including the administrative and organisational duties, involvement in social and digital media development and monitoring and forward planning.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

o5 GCSEs or equivalent, including Maths A* - C and English Language, or equivalent
oOne A-level or similar / equivalent experience, in subject such as communications, Marketing or media
o!OR NVQ / QCF L2 in communications media management or new media or equivalent experience

Desirable

oQualifications in photography or graphic design

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

o5 GCSEs or equivalent, including Maths A* - C and English Language, or equivalent
oOne A-level or similar / equivalent experience, in subject such as communications, Marketing or media
o!OR NVQ / QCF L2 in communications media management or new media or equivalent experience

Desirable

oQualifications in photography or graphic design

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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