Communications Officer

Simplyhealth is a 150-year-old business with an amazing heritage and history of changing healthcare in the UK. We’re continually modernising, as reflected by the recent award to B-Corp status; something that is very important to our customers and to our people.

We have 2 million customers across our Health and Dental products and with an ever-increasing strain on the NHS, and a cost-of-living crisis, the products that Simplyhealth offer are needed more than ever before. But Simplyhealth have bigger ambitions than that. We’re on a mission to improve access to healthcare for everyone in the UK to help people live their best lives.

Are you an excellent writer and content producer that wants to work for a purpose-driven company? We have a new role in our dynamic Communications team, working to support Simplyhealth’s mission to provide fast, accessible, affordable healthcare to all.

Key responsibilities

• You’ll join the Internal Communications Manager and External Communications Manager to deliver a multi-channel communications strategy that builds our profile as a healthcare solutions company that is reinvesting profits back into healthcare, for the good of our customers and the wider healthcare system. You’ll be working across a range of topics from the importance of workplace wellbeing, to everyday health issues.
  
• Due to the internal and external nature of the role, you’ll be as passionate about media relations as you are about supporting our colleagues across the business, building on our highly engaged and purpose-driven culture.
• You’ll be developing content whether that’s writing internal news stories, developing case studies or engaging videos. You’ll also work across our suite of social media accounts, conducting monitoring, creating content and supporting the team to evaluate campaigns.
• Media relations will form part of the role, working with our external communications team, and our PR agency to tell our story through the press whether that’s in print, radio or TV. You’ll monitor press coverage, build relationships with media titles and journalists, support media events, and will represent the brand as first-line support for media enquiries.
• As Communications Officer, no two days will be the same. You’ll get stuck in with responsibilities across communications.

We’re interested in what you do and how you do things, not when and where you do them. Our ‘smart working’ approach gives you the best of all worlds – working from home, in our modern offices in Hampshire or on the move. This means depending on your role, there will be opportunities to flex when and where you spend your time to perform at your very best. For many of us this means day to day work can be handled remotely, but there will also be times when we need to come together in the office to collaborate, attend training sessions, induction, briefings and more. You might know it as flexible or hybrid working, for us it’s just another day living our best lives!

Above all, as a communications professional, you’ll be an excellent written communicator, able to effectively tell a story through both short and longform writing. Ideally, you’ll bring knowledge and experience of external and internal comms practices, and a proven understanding of media relations. With social media an important part of the role, you’ll be experienced in optimising social platforms to drive engagement and raise a brand’s profile.

It would be great if you also could bring:

• Experience in stakeholder management and developing robust business relationships.
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment (B2B and B2C environments desirable).
• Experience using design software.

Our dream candidate also brings:

• Project management skills.
• Specific experience in a media-related role (e.g. media relations team or in a journalistic capacity).
• Video and content production experience.

What’s in it for you

As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes a discretionary annual bonus, generous pension, 36 days holiday (with the option to buy and sell a further 5 days), a flexible benefits pot (which you can choose to use against some great benefits such as critical illness, private medical insurance, shopping vouchers, pet insurance and more), a Simplyhealth Cash plan or Dental plan, an employee wellbeing programme and shopping discounts.

We’re focused on providing an application, assessment and onboarding journey that is fair, consistent, diverse and inclusive for all, allowing us to hire top talent based on the skills and behaviours pivotal to your and our success.

Your process

• Application
• Screening call
• Aptitude assessment
• Interview
• Offer

Please contact our Talent Acquisition Team if you have any questions; talentacquisitionteam@simplyhealth.co.uk