Senior Regional Media and Communications Advisor

This is an exciting fast paced role supporting the Regional Media and Communications Manager in the development and delivery of effective regional stakeholder engagement, including the media, and ensuring understanding and engagement with CQC’s in promoting improvement in health and social care services and helping people make informed decisions about care.
Reporting to the Regional Media and Communications Manager, and supported by a Regional Media and Communications Officer, you’ll develop and undertake evaluation work contributing to CQC’s understanding of the quality of care across your region. There’ll be a strong emphasis on the relationships you’ll build and maintain with key regional stakeholders as well as with CQC inspection teams.

When thinking about what drives you every day in your job, what keeps you motivated and passionate about your work what comes to mind? For 3000+ people at the CQC we end each day knowing that we have made a difference to the lives of those most in need in our communities. We make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and encourage care services to improve. We are looking for people who are caring, demonstrate integrity and work well as part of a team to join with us and share in this sense of achievement. If you would like to help us, make a positive impact to health and social care within England, then read on., A proactive, dynamic communications professional who can help build on regional media’s successes over the last two years and take ownership to drive forward new, sometimes complex projects including accountability for delivery.
Someone who is positive and resilient and able to provide challenge, whilst maintaining good relationships for future working.
You hold yourself to high standards and take pride in a delivering high-quality work.
A team player who has experience of developing talent and managing the performance of others or can demonstrate strong theory in this area.
A strategic thinker who enjoys turning ideas into action and improving existing ways of working.

Your health and wellbeing are important to us and are supported through generous annual leave (starting at 27 days and rising with service to 32.5 days, plus 8 Bank Holidays), a cycle to work scheme, discounted gym vouchers and access to a free employee assistance service 24 hours a day. We also understand the importance of financial health and offer membership of the NHS pension scheme, contributing about 14% of basic salary. You will also be able to access discounts to supermarkets, high street stores, electronics, fleet cars, plus we also have an internal reward scheme which could see you earn yourself a voucher or two! All of our Homeworkers are also kitted out with everything they need to comfortably work from home.
We want to support you to succeed and be your absolute best, with opportunities for training and development along with the support of experienced managers and mentors.
We want to make working for CQC a great experience for everyone, and to role model a diverse and representative culture. To support an inclusive environment where colleagues feel empowered to bring their whole self to work, we support a variety of staff networks, including the Race Equality Network, LGBT+ Equality Network, Carers Equality Network, Disability Equality Network and Gender Equality network.