Package Description Extend : EX2324 Job Reference : 20697 Band : C Salary : £27,300 - £32,533 pro-rated. The salary will depend on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights. Contract type : Permanent role – 14 hours per week. Location : Office Base is Stoke-on-Trent - Radio Stoke, We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage. Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation. Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification. Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the reasonable.adjustmentsbbc.co.uk. For any general queries, please contact: bbchrbbc.co.uk. Job Introduction This role is advertised as part of our BBC Extend programme for disabled people. To apply for this role you should identify as deaf, disabled or neurodivergent and must meet either: the definition of disability in the Equality Act (2010), or the definition of disability in the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) if applying in Northern Ireland. You’re broadly defined as disabled under both acts if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative or adverse effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. This definition includes both apparent and non-apparent conditions and impairments, and medical conditions such as Cancer, HIV or Multiple Sclerosis. We are committed to making the process of applying for this role as accessible as possible. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the application process, or have any questions about our Extend programme, please contact the BBC Extend team via the shared mailbox. The BBC are fully committed to providing workplace adjustments to help eliminate barriers in the workplace that disabled people face. To do this, we have our own dedicated BBC Access and Disability Service that provides assessments and support throughout employment with us. If you are successful in applying for this role and require workplace adjustments, we will work with you to get your adjustments in place. If you’d like more information on BBC Extend, please visit the BBC Extend webpage. BBC Radio Stoke is an ambitious radio station that puts real people at the centre of everything it does. It knows and loves its audience, serving a TSA of more than 700,000 people across Stoke, Staffordshire and Cheshire. We’re looking for a journalist with sharp writing skills and a great broadcasting voice to present our weekend news bulletins. The role involves preparing and reading news and sport for radio and smart speaker bulletins at breakfast time, through until lunchtime on Saturdays and Sundays. You’ll also prep bulletin copy and breaking news stories to handover to the Monday breakfast team. You’ll be an organised, technically competent and self-reliant broadcast professional who is comfortable with lone working, as well as within in a team. You’ll be skilled at delivering complex news stories in a clear and conversational way. There may also be an opportunity for extra hours to cover our newsreaders who work on weekdays. Main Responsibilities You’ll use a range of audio, video and digital equipment to write, assemble, edit and deliver output to the highest professional standards. You’ll use excellent editorial judgement and a sound knowledge of BBC values in order to develop stories, producing accurate and impartial journalism. You’ll liaise closely with team members in other areas of the BBC – particularly in online, regional TV and BBC Sounds - to ensure material is updated and shared. You’ll deliver to tight deadlines with the highest editorial standards. Are you the right candidate? The Right Person Will Be Able To Demonstrate Recent experience of live radio production and/or presenting news bulletins, often to a specific time. Sound editorial and presentation decisions based on a thorough understanding of BBC news and current affairs, the BBC’s values and our local BBC audience across Stoke, Staffordshire and Cheshire. A thorough understanding of the law relating to journalism. In Addition, You Will Be able to originate and produce in a lone-working environment, but also as part of a team, a wide variety of news and current affairs content for relevant output. Be able to use a range of video, audio and digital equipment and information technology to research, write, assemble, edit and deliver outputs in the appropriate medium, to the highest professional standards. Demonstrate sound editorial and policy decisions based upon a clear understanding of the BBC’s distinctive news agenda, the requirements of news and current affairs coverage and the audience. Demonstrate a commitment to improving diversity in the BBC and understands how individual differences can benefit the BBC. Have a high level of responsibility and decision making. About The BBC The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk. We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours here. Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential. We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise. To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here .