Job summary
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) exists to help improve the quality, sustainability and productivity of health and social care in England. We have an international reputation for our approach to producing guidance and information on effective practice that supports better decisions and helps the health and care system to prioritise its investment. We are one of the world leaders in the work that we do!
Main duties of the job
The media relations executive will play a key role in ensuring the effective delivery of NICE's communications and organisational strategy.
Among other things you'll develop and implement media strategies and create content to support dedicated clinical, public health and social care topic areas as well as individual pieces of NICE guidance.
With a key focus on the Press you'll also be responsible for planning and managing communications activities to support the development, launch and ongoing use of NICE guidance, as well as preparing content, including copy, images, blogs, podcasts and video.
About us
The media relations team is a small team of 5 responsible for raise awareness of NICE's work and to manage and limit any negative media coverage about controversial guidance or issues.
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, issues social media posts promoting NICE's work and issues comments on relevant stories.
Here at NICE 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:o We offer a range of benefits including the NHS pension scheme and staff discountso We provide a thorough induction programmeo Personal development is supported through extensive training and development opportunitieso We promote flexible working to help staff achieve a healthy work life balanceo We value equality and diversity and welcome applicants from all sections of the communityo We will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria in line with the NHS Guaranteed Interview Scheme
If you feel this is the type of environment, you will enjoy working in then please feel free to contact us for more information or apply now.
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 demonstrate all essential criteria through 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 demonstrate all essential criteria through 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 first degree or equivalent level of knowledge acquired through experience and further training/development.
Experience
Essential
- Press office experience in healthcare/social care organisations or associated industries.
Experience
Desirable
- An understanding of the social, political, economic and technical context within which NICE, the NHS, public health and social care operates.
Skills
Essential
- Ability to co-ordinate and plan multiple projects with conflicting deadlines effectively, with good attention to detail and level of accuracy.
Skills
Essential
- The ability to communicate effectively and establish effective working relationships with a range of external and internal stakeholders at all levels.
Skills
Essential
- An excellent knowledge of different media channels, including social.
Other
Essential
- Self-motivated and pro-active, with the ability to work unsupervised and make timely, robust and independent decisions on issues for which they have responsibility, seeking advice when appropriate.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant first degree or equivalent level of knowledge acquired through experience and further training/development.
Experience
Essential
- Press office experience in healthcare/social care organisations or associated industries.
Experience
Desirable
- An understanding of the social, political, economic and technical context within which NICE, the NHS, public health and social care operates.
Skills
Essential
- Ability to co-ordinate and plan multiple projects with conflicting deadlines effectively, with good attention to detail and level of accuracy.
Skills
Essential
- The ability to communicate effectively and establish effective working relationships with a range of external and internal stakeholders at all levels.
Skills
Essential
- An excellent knowledge of different media channels, including social.
Other
Essential
- Self-motivated and pro-active, with the ability to work unsupervised and make timely, robust and independent decisions on issues for which they have responsibility, seeking advice when appropriate.
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
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).
