Total 8 pr media communications job vacancies in maidstone me20 6wt

This newly created role is looking for an experienced digital content officer to join our forward-thinking communications and engagement team to help shape the delivery of our new intranet and improve the online experience for our staff and service users. Our new intranet will be an app-first staff intranet to support our nearly 4,000 staff.

Working alongside the head of digital communications and brand, you will play a leading role in developing our new intranet. Your excellent written skills mean you can write excellent web-focused content aligned to our voice, tone, and Plain English ethos that is easy to understand. You will be an organised individual overseeing all content changes, making sure they meet industry standards, are user-friendly, accessible, on-brand, and easily found. Your skills in CRO, UX/UI, and copywriting will give KMPT the expertise needed to create a high-performing intranet. Your creative and collaborative nature means you will successfully work with and influence teams across the trust to design an intranet to help meet their goals.

It's an exciting time to join KMPT. You will be a part of a new communications team that will encourage your creativity and development in the digital communications space. We want to expand our digital capabilities internally and externally to help us better connect with our service users, our people, and partners – this role is integral to achieving that.

Interviews are to be held on the 10th & 11th July
• Work with the head of digital communications in the delivery of a new intranet and to develop existing external website and content:Supporting project management, content writing, site design, and CMS maintenance.This is not a coding role meaning you will not be required to code and develop the site
• Content Management:Write, create, edit, and publish engaging and informative content across intranets and websites aligned to our voice and tone.
• User Experience Enhancement:Conduct user research, analyse feedback, and implement improvements to enhance user experience and develop content.
• Digital Communication:Collaborate with departments, teams, and content creators to align messaging and maintain brand consistency.
• Information Architecture:Develop and maintain the information architecture for intranets and other sites.
• Training and Support:Provide training and support to content contributors on using the intranet, writing for web best practices, and accessibility guidelines.
• Analytics and Reporting:Monitor website and intranet analytics to evaluate performance and identify areas for improvement.
• Compliance and Governance:Ensure compliance with policies, legal requirements, and data protection regulations.

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people across the county.

The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.


• Work with the head of digital communication in the delivery of a new intranet and in developing existing external website and content:
• Design, develop, and maintain new intranet and support existing website.
• Support the delivery of a new intranet. This includes working with external suppliers to develop the platform and key stakeholders to define, write content and support project management.This is not a coding role meaning you will not be required to code and build.

Content management:
• Write, create, edit, and publish engaging and informative content, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and relevance of information across new intranet and other sites.
• Analyse complex facts, situations, or briefs you are presented with and interpret them into appropriate content for the web. This includes working with Subject Matter Experts to interpret complex policy and guidance into appropriate written web content that is easily found.

User experience enhancement:
• Conduct user research, analyse feedback, and implement improvements to enhance user experience across the intranet.
• Optimise site navigation, search functionality, and overall usability across intranet and web
• Work with stakeholders to understand their needs, gather information and advise them on how to best optimise content and user experience.

Digital Communication:
• Work with the wider communications team to support the development and implementation of digital communications strategies, for internal and external stakeholders aligned with our broader KMPT strategy
• Work to conflicting deadlines with a high degree of flexibility, switching tasks and priorities as the situation demands.
• Support the management of wider digital communication channels if required

Information Architecture:
• Write, develop, and maintain the information architecture for intranets and websites.
• Ensure logical organisation and easy retrieval of information.
• Implement metadata standards and SEO strategies to optimise content discoverability.

Training and Support:
• Provide training and support on writing for web best practices, intranet and CMS usage, and accessibility guidelines as well as technical issues and guidance
• Manage intranet content governance and authorship structure
• Work with the head of digital communications and brand in empowering colleagues to use the intranet through training, and delivering best practices, with the aim of improving skills and digital confidence and competence.

Analytics and Reporting:
• Monitor intranet and website data, analytics, and feedback to evaluate performance, understand user behavior, and identify areas for improvement – using relevant tools.
• Generate reports on key metrics, user engagement, and content effectiveness.

Compliance and Governance:
• Ensure compliance with policies, legal requirements, and data protection regulations.
• Identify and manage confidential and sensitive information and operate with professionalism and integrity
• Uphold NHS and KMPT guidelines, standards, and best practices for accessibility (WCAG 2.1) and inclusion.
• To build effective working relationships with key stakeholders across the Kent and Medway Integrated Care System (ICS) and NHS, and support the Trust’s relationship with external stakeholders including service users, the voluntary sector, and local authorities


This advert closes on Sunday 30 Jun 2024

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The job description and person specification give you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this. Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert. We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know so they can help you with this. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

The job description and person specification give you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this. Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert. We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know so they can help you with this. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Please refer to the attached job description for full details and the main responsibilities of the role.

1 in 4 of us living in the UK will experience mental ill health each year. And when that happens in Kent and Medway, KMPT is there to offer specialist support to the most seriously unwell.

Each year we look after over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community. And we can do that because of our 3,700+ staff, who are dedicated to providing the best possible care at what can be one of the most difficult points of a person’s, and their loved ones’, lives.

If you're a talented communications professional with a passion for making a difference - someone who thrives in a busy and fast-paced environment – now is your chance to join our high-performing, friendly team, and play a key role in helping us make every day a better day for our patients. Internally this means focusing on improving staff engagement, and culture and enabling change. Externally this means focusing on improving the Trust’s reputation with its patients, partners, and communities.

You would be joining at a pivotal time as we take forward ambitious plans to improve how we care for our patients, support and empower our staff, and work with our partners. From radically transforming how mental health care is offered to people in the community, to reshaping KMPT’s identity and culture and working better with partners to address health inequalities it’s a really exciting time to be part of the team.

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We're looking for someone to produce high-quality and engaging communications to support both internal and external activity for the people we care for, the people who work for us, and our partners. As part of this, you would be:
• Planning and delivering effective, audience-focused campaigns and events;
• Producing accessible, compelling content, in collaboration with clinical teams and services, that engages target audiences across our channels (which include social media, video, web, print, email, newsletters, leaflets, and marketing materials);
• Managing sensitive issues appropriately and responding to media enquiries effectively, working closely with Trust colleagues where needed; and
• Measuring and evaluating communications activity to extract insight and inform future campaigns or communications projects.

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people across the county.

The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Please refer to the attached job description for full details and the main responsibilities of the role.


This advert closes on Tuesday 7 May 2024

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

1 in 4 of us living in the UK will experience mental ill health each year. And when that happens in Kent and Medway, KMPT is there to offer the most seriously unwell specialist care and support.

Each year KMPT looks after over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community. And we are able to do that because of our 3,700+ staff, who are dedicated to providing the best possible care at what can be one of the most difficult points of a person’s, and their loved ones’, lives.

If you're a talented internal communications professional with a passion for making a difference - someone who thrives in a busy and fast paced environment – now is your chance to help our people deliver our core mission of making every day a better day for those that need us.

We're looking for an internal communications expert for 12 months, while the current post holder is seconded to another opportunity in KMPT. You would be a senior leader in the communications team, and regularly advise the most senior members of the organisation.



As part of our high-performing, friendly team, you would oversee our internal communications effort – including planning and executing staff engagement campaigns on a variety of important issues, creating content & collateral suitable for a broad range of channels (from print to digital), helping to deliver an innovative, new, intranet to better connect and engage with our geographically diverse staff and supporting our executive management to drive forward change that will allow us to take better care of both our staff and patients.

Interested (and we hope you are)? These are the main duties of the job:
• To plan, deliver, and evaluate impactful and outcome-focused internal communications campaigns, products, and activities that support the organization’s priorities;
• Create engaging content for the full range of channels we use, including the intranet, social media channels, vlogs, blogs & newsletters;
• To provide strategic internal communications counsel and support to a range of colleagues across the trust;
• To oversee our internal communications channels to ensure they are being used effectively & helping to drive increased staff engagement with organisational priorities

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people across the county.

The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
• To manage the strategic co-ordination of the Trust’s communications activity – contributing to the proactive forward-planning for all channels. As part of this, identify opportunities, potential risks and interdependencies across organisational priorities;
• To work closely with the external communications manager to ensure communications effort is integrated and complementary across internal and external audiences and channels;
• To work with the communications team, wider organisation and key partners ( where appropriate) to help us innovate and improve; both in terms of what we do and how we do it.

Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.


This advert closes on Sunday 7 Apr 2024

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

To manage the strategic co-ordination of the Trusts communications activity contributing to the proactive forward-planning for all channels. As part of this, identify opportunities, potential risks and interdependencies across organisational priorities; To work closely with the external communications manager to ensure communications effort is integrated and complementary across internal and external audiences and channels; To work with the communications team, wider organisation and key partners ( where appropriate) to help us innovate and improve; both in terms of what we do and how we do it. Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.

Once your pre-employment checks have been completed you will be contacted by Recruitment to arrange your start date which will be in line with one of our Corporate Inductions. At MTW, we seek to develop a culture where everyone can reach their full potential with opportunities to grow and develop their career. We recognise and value the unique contributions that each of our staff bring, delivering the best quality care and service to our patients. We are committed to being a diverse employer and strive to reflect everyone in our local communities. We welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experiences and celebrate the diversity of thought, viewpoints and ideas that will make our Trust the best place to work.