# Communications Assistant - Trainee Programme

**Company**: South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £31554.00 to £33270.00
**Category**: Communications
**Industry**: Healthcare

**Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9334-26-1075?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is hosting an informal online Q&A session on Monday 16 November 12 to 12:30pm for prospective applicants, giving you the opportunity to ask any questions you might have about the role, the trainee programme or the application process directly to the Communications Team.

The Communications Assistant - Trainee Programme is a 12-month entry-level position for creative and empathetic individuals who are keen to get their first foot on the career ladder within communications and PR.

As a communications trainee at SLaM, you will receive on-the-job training in a busy public sector environment and career development embedded in your work plan. You will assist the Communications Team in all tasks, including researching and drafting copy for internal and external channels, writing and uploading engaging and compelling content to the Trust website, intranet, and other digital platforms, developing creative skills such as writing press releases, newsletters, briefings, video editing and other digital content, producing infographics and basic visual content, taking photos and producing/editing videos of colleagues around the Trust, joining campaign planning sessions and contributing creative ideas, working with the Communications Team to maintain excellent content streams, promoting the work of other teams and services to further strategic objectives, following briefs and achieving goals within set timescales, being flexible, self-motivated, and able to organise own workload, acting as the first point of contact for the team via the team telephone and shared mailbox, supporting external, internal, and virtual events, updating intranet and website pages, and demonstrating excellent attention to detail.

The programme offers a 12-month full-time NHS contract (37.5 hours a week, 3 days in the office minimum), work experience as part of a busy NHS Communications Team, training on all key digital platforms, a dedicated line manager supporting your induction and development, access to further training opportunities, support to make your next career move at the end of the contract, and access to all NHS benefits.

We are looking for young people who can hit the ground running, take initiative, respond and react quickly, and have an eagerness to learn. You must be able to work in a pressurised environment, be familiar with new media, be used to working/studying to tight deadlines, and able to multitask when required. You will be highly organised with the ability to simultaneously manage simple projects.

The salary range is £31,554 to £33,270 a year.

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## Skills

### Required
- communications
- PR
- creative writing
- video editing
- visual content creation

### Nice to have
- AI
- healthcare

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Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9334-26-1075?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)