Communications Manager

About The Role

Permanent
Salary: £35,000
Hours: 35 hrs p/w
Days: Monday - Friday 
Location: Flexible working - 50/50 split between home-working, and 175 St John Street, Farringdon

We’re looking for an experienced communications professional to join our Communications, Digital and Marketing Team. This role represents an exciting opportunity to work with a charity that has real impact on the lives of children, young people and their families.

As Communications Manager, you will help to amplify Place2Be’s work in schools, raise awareness of children’s mental health, and support with our vision to ensure that no child has to face mental health problems on their own.

What will I be responsible for in my new role?

• develop and create compelling content to connect and engage different target audiences
• work with the wider Communications, Marketing and Digital team to forward plan and identifying opportunities to promote Place2Be’s work
• lead on Place2Be’s social media strategy; producing compelling and engaging social content that drives traffic to Place2Be sites
• support Head of Communications in managing proactive and reactive media relationships and enquiries, and issues received via phone, email or social posts

What difference will I make, working as a Communications Manager at Place2Be? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE_-jx3LWJw&ab_channel=Place2Be

Diversity and Inclusion

Place2Be is committed to equal opportunities and anti-discrimination practices and we positively encourage applications from all sections of the community. We are particularly interested in attracting applications from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic backgrounds.

We are an organization that is fully committed to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults and take this responsibility seriously.

About You

The successful candidate

You will:

• be highly organised and diligent, able to prioritise a busy workload and juggle multiple deadlines
• have significant experience in a communications role
• have experience of working with PR software e.g. Cision, Meltwater or equivalent
• have experience of press and PR, and building strong relationships with journalists and editors

1st Interview: 7 / 8 March ZOOM Video Interview

2nd Interview: 9 March ZOOM Video Interview

In return we offer you a range of fantastic benefits including:

If you share our core values of perseverance, integrity, compassion and creativity and have the counselling skills and patience to support some of the UK’s most vulnerable young people and families, we would love you to join us. It’s sensitive and demanding work – but hugely rewarding and fulfilling - you will be helping to give young people a brighter future.

Please view/download the full Job Description and Person Specification on our website for further details.Enhanced Annual Leave entitlement
Robust Learning and Development Programme
Contributory Pension Scheme
Life Assurance, 4x Annual Salary
Employee Assistance Programme
Mobile Phone Discounts (EE Network)
Cycle purchase and season ticket loan schemes
Extended Maternity/Paternity Pay

About Us

Place2Be is the leading children's mental health charity providing in-school support and expert professional development to improve the emotional wellbeing of children and young people, families, teachers and school staff. The charity currently provides an embedded mental health service in almost 400 UK primary and secondary schools supporting a school community of around 225,000 children and young people.

Our teams provide a range of services in our partner schools to build resilience early in life through counselling, creative work and play and support a child’s ability to engage in school life.  Our work, focused on early intervention, is part of the ‘comprehensive CAMHS system’.  

Through our professional development programme, we are training c1200 Counsellors on Placement each year who build their mental health and counselling skills and experience through practice in our partner schools. We also provide a range of professional development programmes on mental health and wellbeing for school leaders, teachers and other professionals who work with children and young people, so we can help to build ‘mentally healthy’ schools and communities where all children can thrive and flourish.

We continue to pilot, trial and explore new ways in which we can develop our practice as well as share learning, expertise and findings from the robust evidence and evaluation we gather. HRH The Princess of Wales is our Royal Patron and Place2Be is one of the founding charity partners of Heads Together. We also work collaboratively with a range of charities and expert organisations to leverage best-in-class knowledge and expertise to inform, develop and improve outcomes for the children, families and schools we support.  We ask our staff team to share our core values of perseverance, integrity, compassion and creativity, and to have the skills and patience to support some of the UK’s most vulnerable children and families.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £35,000.00 per year

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Scotland: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: One location

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