Communications Assistant

Job summary

Are you a great team player with exceptional writing skills and attention to detail?

Are you passionate about creating engaging content and furthering your communications career?

Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment; able to prioritise a busy workload, while producing high quality work?

Do you want to help reduce health inequalities and play a part in helping people lead healthier lives?

If so, we have an exciting opportunity to join our friendly and experienced team as a communications assistant.

Main duties of the job

• Research, write articles and create content for our various communications channels
• Support the communications team with planning and deliveringprojects, events, meetings, newsletters, presentations, digital channels, and briefings

• Support the monitoring of digital media and updating of intranet and web content

• Monitor the communications team's email inbox; responding appropriately and in a timely manner
• Format and send a range of internal and external communications
• Simple design work to create promotional materials
• Maintain and update the communications team's internal and external contacts' databases
• Set up and support online and in person events, stakeholder and staff meetings.

The role will require some days in the office, with the option to work from home on the remaining days.

About us

North East London is steeped in history and culture, and home to over two million people (and rising). It's the most diverse area of the UK; and because of that, one of the most exciting and vibrant places to work.

NHS North East London works with our health, social care, voluntary and community partners and residents) to plan and buy health services to meet our population's needs, making sure all parts of the local health and care system work effectively together. We work as part of the North East London Integrated Care System northeastlondonhcp.nhs.uk

We make sure residents and visitors have the best physical and mental health and have good access to high-quality health and care services. We have a vision to "work with and for all the people of North East London to create meaningful improvements in health, wellbeing and equity."

We serve eight local authority areas: Barking and Dagenham; City of London; Hackney; Havering; Newham; Redbridge; Tower Hamlets; and Waltham Forest.