Role Summary
Imagine taking your professional skills in marketing and communications and harnessing them to make a genuine difference to the lives of just about everyone you know in the UK.
About the Role
For more information on the Job Description and Responsibilities please click the link below.
More detail about the role:
Recruiting and retaining qualified staff is one of the biggest challenges facing the NHS. The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust are one of the first NHS Trusts to use a marketing approach to help meet this challenge. By using market analysis, profiling and targeted research, we develop compelling value propositions and marketing campaigns that support our organisational positioning, promote careers in the wider NHS and shine a spotlight on why this is an amazing place to work.
You’ll be qualified, creative, innovative and experienced in delivering planned marketing campaigns based on analysis and insight. Your copywriting, editing and message development skills will also be second to none.
Our marketing team are friendly, successful, ambitious and keen for you to join us in making a difference. Based in either Exeter or Barnstaple this is a hybrid role that allows a mix of working from home and 1 or 2 days a week in the office.
This job description is subject to the outcome of formal job matching, and may require some minor amendments.
Working Pattern: Monday to Friday. Occasional evenings and weekends as required.
Interview Date: Week commencing 3rd July 2023
For further information please contact Don Leslie, Head of Marketing on 07500 881703 or visit www.royaldevon.nhs.uk.
This is a fixed term contract for 12 months. For current NHS employees this post could be a secondment opportunity.
Preference will be given to staff with ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust reserves the right to close vacancy when sufficient applications have been received.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was established in April 2022, bringing together the expertise of both the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust.
About Us
Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than 615,000 people, cover more than 2,000 square miles across Devon, while some of our specialist services cover the whole of the peninsula, extending our reach as far as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
We deliver a wide range of emergency, specialist and general medical services through North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford). Alongside our two acute hospitals, we provide integrated health and social care services across a variety of settings, including community inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics, and within people’s own homes. We also offer primary care services, a range of specialist community services, and Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC).
Our state-of-the-art equipment, leading technologies and strong links to local universities put us at the forefront of research and innovations, enabling us to provide world-class care to our local communities.
Our values are at the heart of everything we do, click here to find out more
It has never been a more exciting time to join the Royal Devon, as you will help to shape our services as we continue along our integration journey.
Benefits
Looking after you is important to us.
We strive to help our staff create a healthy work-life balance through flexible working schemes and our family friendly policies.
If you are starting out in the NHS, you’ll start with 27 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 33 days plus bank holidays.
You will benefit from access to our own comprehensive occupational health services, including counselling, onsite wellbeing activities and groups.
We will work together to maintain a culture that develops and supports you and your team.
This might include funding for a care certificate, a degree or leadership qualifications. Or it might include days off to study, engage in CPD or rotational placements to help you hone your skills. Wherever you are heading in the NHS, we will help you get there.
Salary is not the only financial benefit
You will have access to an extensive range of staff discounts on shopping, fitness and leisure options and you can spread the cost of technology and home appliance purchases from major retailers. You will also have access to other benefits including:
- National discount services such as the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts.
- Salary sacrifice options including our OFSTED rated outstanding nursery onsite at Exeter
- Car lease schemes.
- The NHS Pension scheme (one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK).
- Cycle to work scheme
These are just a few of the benefits available – if the role is something you are interested in, we would love to hear from you.
