External Marketing Communications Officer | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Are you a talented external communications and marketing officer who can help us raise the profile of the Health Innovation Network across the health and care sector?, We are now recruiting for a Communications and Marketing Manager to join theHealth Innovation Network(HIN) South London. This role is focused planning and creating engaging communications aimed at our external stakeholders, driving awareness and understanding of our projects as we seek to improve health and care in south London and beyond.

Hosted by Guy's and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust, we enjoy the benefits of being NHS members of staff while focusing on innovation to improve the lives of patients and staff in the health and care sector.

Our projects span a wide variety of specialisms and clinical areas, from mental health to digital technology and transformation.

However, regardless of the project or programme, our work is always worth communicating.

Whether it is sharing the insights from our latest evaluation with commissioning teams, or letting local clinicians know about an upcoming training programme, engaging with the wider health and care community is an essential part our work.

Our external marketing and communications officer (closely supported by the rest of the communications team) is responsible for much of this work on a day-to-day basis.

The role involves using a variety of communications skills to promote our work, with a particular focus on media management and events. You will be expected to develop strong internal and external relationships with stakeholders including project managers, clinicians, communications colleagues at partner organisations and journalists, leveraging this network to ensure our projects get maximum visibility.

The HIN is the health innovation network for south London, one of 15 similar organisations across England. We work across a range of health and care services through each of our clinical and innovation themes, to transform care in diabetes, patient safety, mental health, cardiovascular and healthy ageing and to accelerate innovations into the NHS. Health innovation networks help mobilise the value that the NHS can add as an economic asset to the UK economy. The HIN works with a range of expert support and services across the health and care sectors that support NHS innovators and companies to realise the commercial and economic potential of their innovations.

As part of the HIN adaptable working principles, which allows our ability to adapt to changes in project portfolios and gives staff the opportunity to enhance their skills and expertise, the successful candidate may be asked to operate across other themes and projects.

Our Values

Brave- We encourage our teams and others to be brace with their ideas and support them to try new things.

Kind- We care about each other, the people we work with and about the health and wellbeing of south Londoners.

Open- We're open about what we do, and we share what we learn.

Different- We think differently, and we are strong because of our diverse background, talents, and experiences.

Together- We build communities and networks, we collaborate, and we connect.