Job summary
The Media Relations Executive will play a key role in ensuring the effective delivery of NICE's communications and organisational strategy. They will write engaging and audience appropriate news releases and respond in a timely and appropriate manner to media enquiries, prioritising in line with organisational priorities and the potential for high impact coverage.
Main duties of the job
As a Media Relations Executive, you will be responsible for media handling, generating positive news coverage, building relationships with national and specialist media, and providing media and presentational advice and support to senior colleagues across the organisation.
About us
The Communications Directorate is responsible for raising awareness of NICE's work among key audiences and external partners, and for protecting and enhancing our reputation by using the most effective channels.
The role of the media relations team is to raise awareness of all aspects of NICE's work, its positive impact on patients and the health care system and to provide advice on aspects of presentation, reputation and media handling.
The team responds to questions from the media, promotes new guidance about to be published and guidance that is already available, organises press conferences, arranges interviews for our spokespeople and briefs them accordingly, and issues comments on relevant stories.
We are passionate and proud of the work we do and the impact we make. We can offer you a great place to work with good benefits, flexible working, and a supportive, friendly, and inclusive environment.
Benefits:
- We offer a range of benefits including the NHS pension scheme and staff discounts
- We provide a thorough induction programme
- Personal development is supported through extensive training and development opportunities
- We promote flexible working to help staff achieve a healthy work life balance
- We value equality and diversity and welcome applicants from all sections of the community
- We will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria in line with the NHS Guaranteed Interview Scheme
Job description
Job responsibilities
To be considered for this role, you should be able to particularly demonstrate the person specification criteria in the job advert in your application. However, applicants should be able to demonstrateall essential criteriathrough the entirety of the recruitment process to be considered for the job.
Please see job description attached for full list of responsibilities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To be considered for this role, you should be able to particularly demonstrate the person specification criteria in the job advert in your application. However, applicants should be able to demonstrateall essential criteriathrough the entirety of the recruitment process to be considered for the job.
Please see job description attached for full list of responsibilities.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant level of knowledge acquired through experience and further training/development.
- Experience of effective communication with both professional and lay audiences at all levels and of maintaining systems and administrative procedures to support that communication.
Desirable
- Can demonstrate ability to use standard Microsoft packages (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and ability to use the internet to search for and resource information.
Experience
Essential
- Specialist knowledge across communications and press work underpinned by theoretical knowledge or relevant practical experience.
- Experience of working with the media, either an in-house press office/communications/ PR department or an agency.
Desirable
- Press office experience in healthcare/social care organisations or associated industries.
Skills/Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of current developments in the NHS, public health and social care.
- Can demonstrate or provide examples which show a strong track record in creating, generating and managing engaging content across a range of digital channels and media.
- Demonstrates a flexible attitude to working environment and ability to work as part of a team.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant level of knowledge acquired through experience and further training/development.
- Experience of effective communication with both professional and lay audiences at all levels and of maintaining systems and administrative procedures to support that communication.
Desirable
- Can demonstrate ability to use standard Microsoft packages (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and ability to use the internet to search for and resource information.
Experience
Essential
- Specialist knowledge across communications and press work underpinned by theoretical knowledge or relevant practical experience.
- Experience of working with the media, either an in-house press office/communications/ PR department or an agency.
Desirable
- Press office experience in healthcare/social care organisations or associated industries.
Skills/Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of current developments in the NHS, public health and social care.
- Can demonstrate or provide examples which show a strong track record in creating, generating and managing engaging content across a range of digital channels and media.
- Demonstrates a flexible attitude to working environment and ability to work as part of a team.
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
