St Catherine’s Hospice

Communications and PR Executive

The closing date is 22 March 2026

Job summary

PLEASE APPLY FOR THIS ROLE DIRECTLY VIA OUR WEBSITE:

https://stcatherineshospice.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=c0c749e5-89ad-41c9-9b0a-e8d1f2bce348

Are you a hands on, creative professional who enjoys creating compelling content? Would you find it rewarding to make an impact and support the future direction of St Catherine's growing awareness in the community?

Main duties of the job

We are seeking an excellent communicator who can work with varied teams to produce multi-channel content for internal and external audiences.

Executive role will bring:

  • Create compelling story-led content from patients, families, staff, volunteers and supporters
  • Identifying opportunities for coverage in local, regional and national area
  • Producing high quality written content for multi-channel use
  • Work collaboratively with colleagues to deliver engaging varied publications

About us

About Us:

St Catherines Hospice is a respected local charity providing specialist hospice care alongside statutory service partners (GPs, District nursing etc) across West Sussex and East Surrey.

We provide care in communities across Surrey and Sussex which are richly diverse and we want to reflect that in everything we do. We celebrate and support difference and welcome applications from all backgrounds. If you believe in the importance of what we do, share our values and want to be a part of an outstanding team building something important, wed love to hear from you.

In this role you will be at the centre of our content creation helping to uncover, shape and share powerful human-led stories, with your communications colleagues, that showcase the impact of St Catherines Hospice.

Details

Date posted

09 March 2026

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£32,918 to £37,274 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

B0271-VA231

Job locations

St. Catherines Hospice

Grace Holland Avenue

Pease Pottage

Crawley

West Sussex

RH119SL


Job description

Job responsibilities

Are you a hands on, creative professional who enjoys creating compelling content? Would you find it rewarding to make an impact and support the future direction of St Catherine's growing awareness in the community?

We are seeking an excellent communicator who can work with varied teams to deliver and produce content internally and on external channels.

Executive role will bring:

  • Creating story-led content
  • Identifying opportunities for coverage in local, regional and national area
  • Producing high quality written content for multi-channel use
  • Work collaboratively with colleagues to deliver engaging varied publications

Job description

Job responsibilities

Are you a hands on, creative professional who enjoys creating compelling content? Would you find it rewarding to make an impact and support the future direction of St Catherine's growing awareness in the community?

We are seeking an excellent communicator who can work with varied teams to deliver and produce content internally and on external channels.

Executive role will bring:

  • Creating story-led content
  • Identifying opportunities for coverage in local, regional and national area
  • Producing high quality written content for multi-channel use
  • Work collaboratively with colleagues to deliver engaging varied publications

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to A Level standard or equivalent education.

Desirable

  • You may hold a marketing or communications qualification, for example from the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
  • Full driving licence and access to vehicle for business use.

Experience

Essential

  • Extensive PR and communications experience gained from private or charity sectors.
  • Copywriting skills for a range of comms outputs.
  • Experience managing the content, collation and production of an in-house publication.
  • Excellent face to face communications skills with the confidence to meet and work with a wide-range of people.
  • Understanding of media outreach.
  • Skills capturing the stories of a wide range of case studies, from interview to final written content.
  • Ability to demonstrate and model St Catherine's values in all aspects of work.

Desirable

  • Experience of working for a charity.
  • Video, photography editing skills.
  • Experience of developing an internal communications strategy.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to A Level standard or equivalent education.

Desirable

  • You may hold a marketing or communications qualification, for example from the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
  • Full driving licence and access to vehicle for business use.

Experience

Essential

  • Extensive PR and communications experience gained from private or charity sectors.
  • Copywriting skills for a range of comms outputs.
  • Experience managing the content, collation and production of an in-house publication.
  • Excellent face to face communications skills with the confidence to meet and work with a wide-range of people.
  • Understanding of media outreach.
  • Skills capturing the stories of a wide range of case studies, from interview to final written content.
  • Ability to demonstrate and model St Catherine's values in all aspects of work.

Desirable

  • Experience of working for a charity.
  • Video, photography editing skills.
  • Experience of developing an internal communications strategy.

Employer details

Employer name

St Catherine’s Hospice

Address

St. Catherines Hospice

Grace Holland Avenue

Pease Pottage

Crawley

West Sussex

RH119SL


Employer's website

https://www.stch.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

St Catherine’s Hospice

Address

St. Catherines Hospice

Grace Holland Avenue

Pease Pottage

Crawley

West Sussex

RH119SL


Employer's website

https://www.stch.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

HR Manager

jobs@stch.org.uk

Details

Date posted

09 March 2026

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£32,918 to £37,274 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

B0271-VA231

Job locations

St. Catherines Hospice

Grace Holland Avenue

Pease Pottage

Crawley

West Sussex

RH119SL


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