Senior Communications Officer

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The closing date is 30 July 2026

Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group is seeking a Senior Communications Officer for a 12 month period. This is an exciting opportunity to join the Communications and Engagement Team in an exciting and innovative multi-Trust Group, responsible for both hospital and community services across Lincolnshire.

Based in Lincoln, but with travel to other sites across Lincolnshire, this role will require you to work as part of a wider Group Communications and Engagement team to deliver a comprehensive communications service across both Lincolnshire Community Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (ULTH
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You will be joining the Group at an exciting time, as it embraces the drive to shift more care into the community, and to use modern storytelling to support both staff and patients on that journey.

You will be an enthusiastic team player, with excellent interpersonal, organisation and writing skills and experience of press office, internal comms and stakeholder management.

For further information and a discussion about this role please contact Anna Richards on

The post includes general communications duties including delivery of internal and external communications projects and media, social media management, stakeholder management and communications and supporting and advising Group leadership around communications activity.

At LCHS, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in LCHS' workforce.

LCHS recognises the increasing demand for more flexibility in working practices in order to accommodate the personal goals and commitments that employees experience at different stages during their working lives.

• Flexible working opportunities such as part-time working, compressed hours, job shares, and hybrid working models can help staff to balance their personal and work commitments.
• We are an ambassador of a learning culture that will support the right individual to progress in their chosen career through an 'earn while you learn' apprenticeship programme.

Arrangements can be put in place if it can be shown that the needs of the individual can be balanced with those of the service and the impact on other team members, enabling the Trust to recruit and retain skilled staff, raise staff morale, reduce absenteeism and respond to changing service needs more effectively.

The role includes dealing with media enquiries, writing communications, graphic design, photography and videography, intranet and web publishing and social media.

• Ability to travel within Lincolnshire and to regional and national meetings on occasion
• Access to vehicle for work purposes

• Specialist knowledge across a range of topics to degree level, such as Communications, PR, Marketing communication Experience in the communications field to postgraduate diploma level

• Excellent interpersonal and listening skills
• Ability to establish credibility and good working relationships at all levels
• Excellent written and oral skills
• Ability to effectively manage a number of different, competing priorities with confidence and to tight deadlines
• Creative skills - able to design and develop in-house newsletters, briefings, posters
• Video production and editing

• Demonstrate expertise in the techniques which underpin effective communication and public relations
• Website publishing, open source software packages such as Front Page, Adobe Acrobat writer, In Design

• Specialist experience in PR or communications
• Dealing with crisis communications
• Using social media to engage and for PR
• Arranging high profile events e.g. Ministerial or royal visits

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Lincolnshire Community Health Service NHS Trust