Communications Manager (Better Health & Care Futures)

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About Us

King's College London is a leading University with nine Faculties. As part of King's Health Partners , we have an excellent environment for health care interaction and a strong focus on mentoring and career development.

The newly established King's Better Health & Care Futures (BHCF) initiative harnesses activities across the faculties of King's College London, a world-leading centre in applied health and care research and education. The 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF2021) placed King's applied and allied health research 1st for research rated 4* (world-leading, the highest possible mark) in research papers, impact, and environment. Over 95% of our research overall was rated as world-leading or internationally excellent.

For the last six years, King's has been number 2 in the world and number 1 in Europe for Nursing (QS world rankings). King's produces more highly cited research outputs (top 1% citations) on palliative care than any other centre internationally (SciVal), and is second in the world on the same metric for nursing and midwifery. King's is the largest provider of health care education in Europe.

The Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care (NMPC) is based in the heart of central and south London. It includes the Cicely Saunders Institute for Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation , the premier Institute for Palliative Care, bringing together clinical, research and education teams.

Led by the NMPC, in partnership with co-Directors from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience and the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy, the newly established King's Better Health & Care Futures (BHCF) aims to revolutionise health and care solutions. This initiative spans all faculties and is dedicated to pioneering novel, evidence-based approaches in community care, co-production, and self-care, as well as developing leaders equipped to tackle global health and care challenges.

King's BHCF will focus on addressing the needs of individuals with complex illnesses and multimorbidity, where the value of care is often suboptimal. By establishing a multi- and inter-disciplinary research and education centre, it will emphasize care for children and adults with complex conditions, support their families, and enhance the skills of healthcare professionals. This centre will be a hub for innovative research and education, fostering collaboration across disciplines to improve health outcomes and care practices on a global scale.

We are committed to staff development, and offer opportunities to identify and access appropriate training and professional growth.

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated Communications Manager to join the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care (NMPC) in a newly created position.

Reporting to the Senior Communications Manager, you will lead on communications for King's Better Health & Care Futures (BHCF), a university-wide initiative to tackle unresolved challenges encountered by health and care systems worldwide.

Supporting the BHCF Director and relevant teams, you will deliver and advise on high-quality and strategic communications for BHCF. Alongside this, you will be an integral member of the NMPC Faculty communications team, helping to manage day-to-day communications including the website, intranet, social media channels and events.

This is a full time (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

King's considers the professional and personal development of our staff a priority and we offer an inspiring range of opportunities for training and career progression. Our Organisational Development team provide in-house and bespoke learning.

About you

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1. First degree or equivalent, significant relevant experience within communications/media/web development
2. Experience of planning and implementing communications strategies and plans working with a wide range of stakeholders
3. Experience of planning, managing and delivering a range of successful stakeholder events
4. Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to produce effective content for a variety of channels and audiences in a timely fashion
5. Experience and skill in creating and managing web content and social media channels within a content management system and/or use of HTML
6. Experience of absorbing and evaluating complex information from various sources to create clear and engaging content, preferably within an academic, or health environment
7. Strong people, project and organisational management skills with the ability to work under pressure to tight and sometimes conflicting deadlines
8. Excellent IT skills, including Office, window, databases, internet, web content management systems etc

Desirable criteria

1. Experience of working in the higher education sector
2. A secondary-level qualification or demonstrable training in marketing, media, public relations or communications skills

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click "Apply Now". This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ' How we Recruit' pages.

We are able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.