Senior Communications Officer
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 16/09/2026
- Closes
- 30/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Senior Communications Officer at West London NHS Trust, focusing on delivering the Trust's strategic objectives. The successful candidate will be a communications expert with skills across media, internal communications, digital, and social media. They will lead on communications advice for services, contribute to content creation, and ensure alignment with Trust objectives. The role requires working at least 60% of the time from a Trust site.
Key responsibilities
- Develop and produce engaging, informative and high quality written and digital content for publication across the Trust's key communication platforms.
- Report and evaluate communications activity using analytics to progress the performance of Trust channels and team processes.
- Provide a responsive and proactive service for assigned accounts, developing and maintaining trusted relationships with staff, patients, service users and external partners.
- Provide communications support to clinical and corporate teams, including advice and guidance on producing high quality communications.
- Write and issue press releases and answer media queries.
- Identify and escalate communications and/or media risks and issues to managers within the Communications team.
Essential criteria
- Relevant degree and/or relevant experience in communications, journalism, public relations or marketing
- Experience of working in a communications role or team
- Experience of publishing content to digital communications channels, including websites & social media platforms
- Experience of working with the media, including writing press releases and handling media enquiries
- Experience of planning and delivering, often under significant time pressure
- Experience of producing a wide range of communications materials for different channels
- Experience of multi-channel campaign delivery
- Evidence of design creativity both in briefing external suppliers and in developing in-house materials
- Content creation for digital channels, including video production and editing
- Excellent written, verbal & presentational skills
- Strong editing & proofreading skills
- Ability to digest, analyse and interpret complex information and turn it into plain English
- Excellent and highly developed time management skills with the ability to prioritise a varied workload and meet deadlines
- Ability to work effectively with uncertainty, manage conflicting priorities or sudden unexpected demands and adjust work as required
- Ability to use own judgment to determine the appropriate course of action
- Good interpersonal, negotiating and influencing skills, with the ability to work with people in a diplomatic manner and establish positive relationships
- Knowledge of website, social media & email newsletter content management systems
- Knowledge of branding and style guidelines
- Good understanding of evaluating and measuring performance and improving engagement across digital channels
- Good working knowledge of maintaining confidentiality and implementing data protection legislation requirements
- IT literacy and competency
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in the NHS, wider health, public and/or charity sectors
- Demonstrable ability to deliver results when dealing with highly sensitive issues in a complex environment
- Experience of effectively managing challenging issues and people
- Previous project management experience or experience of supporting large-scale projects that have a communications element
- Understanding of the NHS & wider health environment, including current issues, priorities and strategic change.
- Specialist photography and/or filming skills.
- Specialist knowledge of website & social media metrics e.g. Google Analytics
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £45,953 – £54,254 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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West London NHS Trust
Senior Communications Officer
The closing date is 30 September 2026
Job summary
We're a friendly bunch at West London, and the Communications Team works hard to deliver the Trust's strategic objectives.
I'm looking for a communications expert who has skills across a broad range of communications disciplines, from media to internal comms, digital to social media. In short, a generalist. You might not know everything in the communications world, but you'll be willing to learn, and you'll be someone who can muck in with key projects, whether that be leading them, or supporting others.
In this role, you will lead on communications advice and support for services within the organisation, acting as point of contact for them and advising on best ways to communicate for a desired outcome. You'll also contribute to our communications channels and content, helping the Trust to be as clear and engaging as possible among our internal and external audiences.
You'll also work closely with the Senior Communications Manager and the other Senior Communications Officers to make sure that all communications activity that you're leading on is aligned to the Trust's strategic objectives and priorities. All this will help us maintain the delivery of a high-quality communications service for the Trust.
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