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Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Digital media and marketing communications manager

The closing date is 11 November 2025

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Job summary

Do you have great social media and marketing skills? Can you create engaging, data-driven campaigns that will help us connect with our patients and staff? Then we have the role for you.

You'll be eager to learn and bring fresh ideas, excellent writing skills and enthusiasm as our digital media and marketing manager.

We will support you to build your skills in a very busy NHS communications team. As part of our data-driven team, you'll be developing objective-focused end-to-end campaigns based on our strategic priorities and supported with performance data. Developing analytics reports to demonstrate our impact and effectiveness will be a key part of your role.

Main duties of the job

Manage corporate social media channels to optimise engagement, accurately reflecting our organisation and its strategic priorities

Contribute to and implement strategies, operational policies and guidelines relating to social media platforms.

Ensure channels and messages are consistently and professionally monitored and moderated and respond to comments and feedback submitted through social media channels.

Work with teams in the wider organisation to identify social media champions and ensure departmental channels and managed effectively and within policy.

Support senior leaders to use social media effectively.

Work with departments to effectively manage or close down departmental social media accounts in line with policy.

Work with heads of communications and department leads to scope, plan and implement organic and paid social media campaigns and provide evaluation and measurement against SMART objectives.

Develop and manage digital communications tools to support the wider communications team to achieve team and organisational objectives

Maintain engagement statistics for internal and external digital communications channels, such as hospital website, intranet and social media, and provide reports contributing to communications KPIs and performance report.

Use data to support evidence based development of digital platform content, structure and style.

Support Web and Intranet administrator with adding content to the Trust websites and intranets.

About us

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.

Details

Date posted

28 October 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£38,682 a year Per Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

390-COR-SO-0621

Job locations

Southend

Prittlewell Chase

Westcliff

SS0 0RY


Job description

Job responsibilities

Are you looking for an exciting Digital media and marketing communications manager role using your unique qualities, then we want to hear from you.

For full details about this varied and rewarding role, please see attached job description.

We look forward to your application.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Are you looking for an exciting Digital media and marketing communications manager role using your unique qualities, then we want to hear from you.

For full details about this varied and rewarding role, please see attached job description.

We look forward to your application.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to degree level in a related discipline (communications, PR, marketing, journalism) or equivalent experience
  • Digital communications/PR training/marketing qualification or equivalent experience

Knowledge and experience

Essential

  • Excellent and accurate writing skills, appropriate to audience.
  • Excellent organisational skills and high level of accuracy and attention to detail
  • Proven experience of using digital communications tools effectively for internal and external audiences

Desirable

  • Experience working within an NHS communications team
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to degree level in a related discipline (communications, PR, marketing, journalism) or equivalent experience
  • Digital communications/PR training/marketing qualification or equivalent experience

Knowledge and experience

Essential

  • Excellent and accurate writing skills, appropriate to audience.
  • Excellent organisational skills and high level of accuracy and attention to detail
  • Proven experience of using digital communications tools effectively for internal and external audiences

Desirable

  • Experience working within an NHS communications team

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Southend

Prittlewell Chase

Westcliff

SS0 0RY


Employer's website

https://www.mse.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Southend

Prittlewell Chase

Westcliff

SS0 0RY


Employer's website

https://www.mse.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Head of Digital Media and Marketing Communications

Amanda Burton

amanda.burton14@nhs.net

03004434104

Details

Date posted

28 October 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£38,682 a year Per Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

390-COR-SO-0621

Job locations

Southend

Prittlewell Chase

Westcliff

SS0 0RY


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