Available Hours:
Permanent - Full Time - 37 Hours per week.
If you are passionate about crafting great news stories and working with the media to get these heard, then we want to hear from you.
As the UK’s largest charity care provider, MHA enables people to live later life well. For over 75 years, we’ve been proud to deliver great quality care, housing and support services for thousands of older people throughout the UK.
We have an exciting new opportunity for a talented media relations specialist to join our growing Communications Team. If you have what it takes to help build our local and national media profile, across print, online and broadcast outlets, we can offer you the chance to change how people see older people’s care services.
Our new colleague will have particular responsibility for raising the profile of our fantastic services for older people, promoting MHA’s care homes to local audiences and ultimately helping older people make the choice to join us. You will also use your creativity to work on media stories to support MHA’s fundraising, campaigning and influencing, and much more besides. Alongside the PR Manager, you’ll be responsible for protecting and enhancing MHA’s reputation and handling any media queries.
This role needs someone who can manage their own workload, who works well in a busy environment, can deliver to agreed targets, and enjoys collaborating with others. We’d also expect you to be a member of our out of hours rota to take incoming media queries on some evenings and weekends.
For more information about this role, please review the attached Job Description.
If this sounds like you, call PR Manager Theresa Knight on 07817 011502 for an informal chat to find out more.
Please note that interviews may take place prior to the closing date and if a suitable candidate is appointed the role may close early.
Recruitment agencies: please note, MHA do not accept unsolicited CV’s from recruitment agencies, regardless of whether they are on our Preferred Supplier List (PSL). We only accept CV’s from agencies that have been appointed and briefed by MHA’s Talent Acquisition Team.
Through specialist care homes, thriving retirement living and vibrant community groups and befriending, we inspire the best care and wellbeing at every stage of later life.
With over 75 years’ experience we put people at the heart of everything we do in all our homes, schemes and community services across Britain.
For more information about MHA, please visit our website.