Media and PR Officer

Job summary

Do you want a role where you can see a real impact from the media coverage and content you and your colleagues secure and deliver? By joining the team responsible for promoting blood donation youll be encouraging ordinary people to do something extraordinary to give life to others.

NHS Blood and Transplant are looking for a Media and PR officer who cares about making a difference with experience of working in a busy press office. Your influence, skills and creativity will contribute to the organisations success and the lives we save and improve on a daily basis.

This fixed term role set to end in December 2026 will be based in Tooting with a focus on supporting blood donation across our main London donor centres while helping reach and recruit more new donors, especially those who are young and/or Black heritage to help improve treatment for patients with sickle cell. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the communities we serve.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will be responsible for supporting the Communications team to deliver high quality, evaluated communications primarily focussed on recruiting new donors and showcasing the work of NHSBT. Your responsibillites will include:-

• To deliver proactive media handling - national and local announcements, ethnic minority focussed media and consumer media coverage.
• Reactive media handling call handling / rebuttal and media monitoring.
• To use free media and no cost/low cost PR to recruit new donors.
• To work with colleagues across the organisation to source stories and information and with colleagues across the communications mix to deliver joined up and effective communications plans.
• To build relationships with case studies, influencers and media who can encourage the public to become blood and organ donors.

You will be required to travel and spend time away from base, which will involve working irregular hours and overnight stays when required, with prior notice

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need.

Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever.

You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.