Band 5 Psychological Professions Communications Support Officer inBirmingham inBirmingham PUBLISHED
MON 27 JAN 2025
This 21-month fixed-term, full-time role emphasises project support and administration, including responding to queries and providing comprehensive communication support to senior professionals. The position allows for hybrid working, combining remote work with occasional on-site attendance, and seeks proactive individuals who can initiate action and collaborate effectively with a variety of stakeholders to promote the diverse roles in the Psychological Professions.
Come Join Our Team!
Are you keen to support our NHS workforce to develop and grow? Can your wide range of communications skills help us promote the range of roles and opportunities for Psychological Professions in the NHS to improve the outcomes for our colleagues and communities alike? If so, come join our team! This is an exciting time to join the Corporate Psychology team in our Trust. We are involved in a range of transformational workforce training and education projects, both internal to the Trust and Region wide. And we need your communications skillset.
You will support, co-ordinate and monitor our internal and external communication channels for Psychological Professionals and provide expert communication skillset support for our training and education workstreams within Chief Psychologist's portfolio. This 21 month fixed-term full-time communication support officer role will have strong project support and administrative focus, and will also include key elements of project coordination and delivery through the managing of key communications inboxes, coordinating responses to internal and external queries, developing our social media presence, designing and publishing posts across channels, developing and editing vlogs, blogs, webpages, webinars and eLearning resources focused on the diversity of roles in the Psychological Professions.
You will also provide an effective and comprehensive communications support to the Chief Psychologist and senior Psychological Professions leads responsible for Training & Education Projects as appropriate. And you will be supported towork autonomously, initiating action on behalf of the Chief Psychologist linked to communications needs for our Training & Education for Psychological Professionals areas of work.
The communications officer will:
- Plan and implement communications strategies for projects, some of which are complex and involve a range of key stakeholders, for example joint communication plans.
- Commission, write, edit, proofread, co-ordinate internal and external publications, staff and patient resources and advice documents.
- Write press releases and articles for internal and external publications.
- Respond to media enquiries including briefing journalists.
- Provide and receive complex and sensitive information including giving communications, marketing and media advice to managers, staff and committees which influence to ensure staff give an appropriate communication approach.
This position will be primarily remote working with pre-planned attendance at Trust sites as required.
About us
For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.
We are unable to support applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work the United Kingdom (UK)
This role gives the opportunity for hybrid working and you will typically be asked to work in a hybrid way, working from your home and also from Trust HQ The Uffculme Centre, or any other agreed site.
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