Communications & Marketing Executive

Can you tell the story of how Hospice care helps local people?

At St Leonard's Hospice, we are looking for skilled Communications & Marketing Executive to join our Comms team, supporting colleagues across the Hospice to:

• Make sure patients, families, healthcare professionals and carers know what help St Leonard's offers and how they can access our support
• Campaign for changes in public policy and awareness of palliative and end-of-life issues
• Promote a range of income generating activity to new and existing supporters

This is a full-time role, working
37.5 hours per week
, usually Mon-Fri though occasional evening and weekend work will be required. Once established in role, home working for up to two days a week will be feasible. The salary band for this role is£28,555 to £31,337
a year.

To succeed, you'll work collaboratively across the Hospice to create and share engaging insight-based, audience-focused communications.

Reporting directly to the Head of Communications, and working alongside another Communications & Marketing Executive, you will create compelling content to showcase the Hospice's work and the difference it makes for patients, families and carers.

• Experience in a similar role and the ability to demonstrate your skills
• The ability to create compelling content online and in print
• A track record in evaluating campaigns to support continuous improvement

What's in it for you:

• Flexibility for a great work/life balance
• Generous annual leave entitlement of up to 41 days
• Extensive employee discounts on shops, holidays and lifestyle choices and Blue Light Card discounts
• Opportunities to grow your skills and career
• Free onsite car parking
• A supportive and friendly working environment

Our mission is to provide excellent care and support to those living with life-limiting illness and to the people they care about, to enrich their lives and to contribute to the ongoing development of end-of-life care. We do this by placing our patients at the centre of everything we do, and through involving patients and their families in all decisions regarding their care.

We can only achieve this with the help of our amazing colleagues, by developing and recognising their contribution, and by sharing our knowledge and skills through education, audit and research.

Underthe leadership of the Head of Communications, this role is responsible forcarrying out day-to-day marketing and communications activity to:

• Engagethe Hospice's key audiences:
• - Potentialsupporters and/or beneficiaries among the general public
• - Existingsupporters and beneficiaries
• - Partnersand practitioners in the healthcare sector
• - Commissioners,politicians and decision-makers responsible for Hospice funding and hospice-relatedrelated policy

• Strengthenour message that St Leonards Hospice (SLH) is here to care for people affected by terminal illness from the point of diagnosis, helping patients to live welland, when the time comes, have the best possible death according to their needs.
• Createand share content that shows the difference hospice care makes for patients,families and carers affected by life-limiting/terminal illness.

Thepost-holder will provide marketing and communications expertise to support the Hospice's clinical,corporate and income generation teams to achieve the organisations strategicaims.

Main duties and responsibilities