PR Manager
Barbican/Hybrid Working | Communications | FTC: 12 months (Maternity cover) | Full-Time
Competitive salary, depending on experience.
37.5 Weekly Hours
Nuffield Health is the UK’s largest healthcare charity and our purpose is to build a healthier nation, one day at a time. From award-winning hospitals and fitness and wellbeing centres to flagship community programmes – we’ll do whatever it takes to look after the UK’s wellbeing. It starts with passion and commitment to quality. It starts with you.
As our PR Manager, you’ll contribute to our purpose by communicating and engaging with our external audiences, particularly media, working as an integral part of the wider marketing team. The external comms team is responsible for developing and championing Nuffield Health’s reputation and building awareness and trust with key stakeholders to support our purpose and deliver on our strategic objectives.
You’ll have the opportunity to develop, shape and deliver a range of external communications activities, advising and working closely with the executive team, senior management, as well as marketing and digital teams to enhance and protect our reputation.
As our PR Manager you will:
1. Support the head of external communications to develop, manage and deliver a proactive PR programme for our hospitals, FWCs and clinical services.
2. Support local hospital teams ensuring messaging is aligned and consistent across the charity.
3. Help manage our press office function, including the development and implementation of key processes and governance to ensure its smooth running.
4. Act as an adviser to the executive and senior leadership team on external communication issues by monitoring the external environment and identifying issues with the potential to impact the organisation’s priorities and operations.
5. Work with the wider external comms team on a proactive media contact programme to ensure we build and maintain strong relationships with media (particularly the health editors and healthcare trade publications).
6. Support the head of external comms on the development and implementation of external comms strategies for key strategic business priorities, M&A, partnerships, innovations.
7. Plan, prepare and respond to crises and issues as part of business continuity planning, including spokespeople development and agreed positioning papers.
8. Develop relationships with media to promote a positive share of voice for Nuffield Health. Develop relationships with trade bodies to ensure Nuffield Health’s interests in relation to communications issues are represented.
9. Stay on top of the news agenda and identify opportunities for developing proactive communications to media.
10. Support the development of press office toolkits, frameworks for sites network, spokespeople development and key positioning statements and responses. Evolve response processes, embedding communications protocols and governance frameworks within the organisation.
To be successful in this PR Manager role you’ll have:
1. Strong experience of proactive and reactive external integrated communications activities to build corporate reputation and influence advocacy.
2. Strong media relations and crisis management experience.
3. First-hand experience of developing, articulating and advocating on a multi-issue, multi-market, multi-channel (traditional and digital) and real-time basis.
4. Strong influencing and advising skills across all levels of an organisation.
5. Excellent communications skills, both verbal and written in a variety of formats and tones of voice.
6. Ability to interpret and assimilate complex data quickly.
7. Experience of developing and implementing external communications strategies and measuring their effectiveness.
8. Excellent written and verbal communication skills; proficiency in messaging, writing feature/news stories, speaking points and scripts for senior leaders.
We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. From free gym membership, a cycle to work scheme and more. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.
Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.
It starts with you.
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