Senior Communications Officer
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Hours / week
- 37.5
- Posted
- 21/08/2026
- Closes
- 06/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Senior Communications Officer to work across Tameside and Glossop IC NHS FT and Stockport NHS FT. The successful candidate will manage external communications, campaigns, stakeholder relations, and digital platforms. They will join a forward-looking integrated care organisation and help shape its communications strategy. The position requires ambition and a broad skill-set in corporate communications.
Key responsibilities
- Manage proactive and reactive media relations.
- Develop stories to promote the organisation's work to the public, stakeholders, and media.
- Manage the trusts' digital communications platforms, including websites and social media.
- Manage corporate events such as annual staff awards.
- Develop, deliver, and evaluate social marketing campaigns.
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel and work across multiple sites/locations
- Education to post graduate diploma level or equivalent experience in a communications specific role.
- Experience of supporting the implementation of effective communications plans for a range of projects/campaigns;
- Experience of working directly with the media, politicians and other key stakeholders in a dedicated communications role.
- Experience of producing high quality, accessible information for a wide range of audiences
- Experience of media management, including crisis management
- Ability to manage a complex portfolio of projects, without supervision, to tight deadlines
- High level of competence in relevant IT systems and software including MS Office
- Evidence of using a wide range of communications tools and channels with the ability to identify the right channel for any particular audience.
- Highly organised, proactive and pays meticulous attention to detail, particularly with written communications.
- Personable and able to build good relationships and work with a wide range of people and stakeholders.
- Excellent written communication skills with experience of drafting copy for a range of publications from corporate documents to public information leaflets, newsletters and websites.
- Excellent proof reading and editing skills with the ability to deliver accurate convincing copy to tight deadlines.
- The ability to identify the target audience for any given publication, understand their needs, adapt writing styles to suit and develop copy with speed and accuracy.
- The ability to analyse facts and situations quickly, and develop a range of creative and appropriate communications solutions.
- The ability to prioritise own work effectively and deal with conflicting demands.
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload with minimal supervision working to tight and often changing timescales
- Ability to act in ways that support equality, diversity and inclusion and is able to identify and remedy situations where these are undermined.
- Ability to work under pressure in a busy working environment and able to multi-task
- Effective team working
- Ability to win the confidence of senior managerial and clinical colleagues
- An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust
- Professional, calm and efficient manner
- Positive and flexible approach to work
- Advanced Keyboard skills
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of, and demonstrable success in, running social media campaigns
- Proficiency in taking and editing digital images (still and moving)
- Understanding of Confidentiality and Data Protection Act.
- Good general knowledge of issues affecting the NHS
- Experience of working in the NHS or another public sector organisation
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Communications Officer
The closing date is 06 September 2026
Job summary
Senior Communications Officer - Band 6 - 37.5 hours - Permanent
Tameside and Glossop IC NHS FT and Stockport NHS FT are looking to appoint a senior communications officer within the Communications Team to work across both NHS trusts.
We're looking for an individual with a thirst for development, ambition and drive to progress their career in corporate communications. You will offer a broad skill-set including: experience in external communications, managing communications campaigns, managing stakeholders, writing for a variety of audiences and social media including the management of the Trusts' digital platforms.
You will be joining a forward looking integrated care organisation and will be given the opportunity and environment to develop within the role.
As a key member of the Communications Team, you will play an important role in helping to shape the organisations' communications offer.
If this sounds like you, we'd like to talk to you.
Main duties of the job
- Managing proactive and reactive media relations.
- Developing stories to promote the work of the organisation amongst the general public, stakeholders and media.
- Managing the trust's digital communications platforms including the website and social media.
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