Band 4 – Digital Communications Assistant

Job summary

Do you have a passion for great online user experience and a keen eye for detail? We're looking for an enthusiastic and proactive Digital Communications Assistant to help us improve and maintain our website, intranet and other digital channels.

You'll need to be able to work well on your own, as well as working with the rest of the Web Team to deliver high-quality digital material, often to a tight deadline. From building a landing page or micro-site, to writing an email bulletin; from proof reading documents, to designing images for social media -- this is a varied and challenging role, requiring a range of skills and offering lots of opportunities for development.

Our friendly team will help you to settle in to this fast-paced environment in no time. We'll give you lots of help to develop your skills, including regular training days, but we also look forward to learning from your knowledge and experience.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

You'll have a minimum HND in Web Design or equivalent, as well as a sound working knowledge of computing and web development. You'll also need to keep up with continually changing software packages and coding techniques, including CSS, HTML and related scripting languages, frameworks and libraries.

You'll be required to display a good understanding of user experience design, web accessibility and writing for the web, and your levels of written English and comprehension must be excellent.

As well as being able to generate high-quality copy, you must also be able to proof and edit text provided by colleagues.

As a creative thinker with a flair for visually appealing content, you'll be proficient in design packages like Illustrator and Photoshop, and ideally be able to use UX design tools like Figma, Sketch or Adobe XD.

To support our colleagues in the Communications team, you may be asked to help with content generation and management on our social media accounts, so a good understanding of social media and best practice principles for its use would be beneficial.

Attention to detail and the ability to prioritise a varying workload are essential qualities in this challenging role.

An understanding of communications in the NHS or commercial experience in a related field will be a bonus.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

Job description

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description* 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

*Minimum HND in Web Design or equivalent 

Experience

Essential

*Sound working knowledge of computing and web development

*Good understanding of social media and best practice principles for its use

*Good understanding of user experience design, web accessibility and writing for the web

*Knowledge of web-based techniques and web publication requirements

*Working knowledge of website best practice, site management, usability, accessibility and design principles

*Design software, e.g.:

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe XD

Figma

Sketch

*Coding software, e.g.:

DreamWeaver

Visual Studio Code

*Latest browsers across multiple platforms

For help with your application, contact: 

James Bentley 

james.bentley@uhb.nhs.uk 

01213716498