- Business: emap
- Brand: Nursing Times
- Base Location: Fleet Street, City of London
- Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent, Hybrid
- Salary: £26,000
Nursing Times, a specialist title serving the UK nursing profession and beyond, is looking for a full-time reporter to join its editorial team.
Nursing Times is the UK’s leading independent nursing brand. Established in 1905, it is the go-to source for those seeking news, views and clinical content to keep updated with developments in nursing.
As a reporter, you will work closely with the news editor to produce agenda-setting news and features content for Nursing Times with a focus on exclusives.
You will be joining the team at a key time for the nursing profession and NHS amid ongoing workforce shortages and record pressures on services but with an ambitious government reform agenda in place.
If you would like to be a part of telling the stories of nursing staff and influencing health and care policy at this moment in history, then this is your chance.
The job is based in our offices just off Fleet Street in London. We currently have a hybrid working model of three days a week in the office and two days working from home.
Key responsibilities:
- Sourcing and writing online daily news stories for Nursing Times
- Sourcing and writing long-read news and features articles
- Bringing in exclusives and ideas for campaigns and investigations
- Establishing and maintaining good relationships with nursing contacts
- Owning and maintaining a news patch
- Attending and covering key nursing events and meetings
- Sending newsletters and covering for the news editor when required
- Working closely with the Nursing Times clinical team and other departments including events, sales and marketing to achieve shared goals
- Using social media to source and promote stories
Skills and experience:
- NCTJ or equivalent qualification in journalism essential
- At least one year’s experience in professional journalism role
- Experience in health journalism is desirable but not essential
- Shorthand advantageous
- Solid understanding of media law
Core competencies:
- Ability to produce engaging and accurate copy to tight deadlines
- Confident in bringing forward own ideas for stories and chasing exclusives
- Exceptional interviewing skills and strong news sense
- Competent in handling and interpreting data, research and reports, including clinical information
- Understanding of the nursing sector or willingness and passion to learn
- Thinks about pictures to illustrate a story and social media posts, as part of the writing process
Personal attributes:
- Interest in health and social care
- Supportive colleague who works well in a small team and can also work independently
- Committed to journalism that supports equality, diversity and inclusion
- Hungry for exclusives and producing agenda-setting content
- Adaptable with a positive approach to new challenges
What we offer
Learning & Development:
At emap, we believe that employee learning and development are the key drivers of our success. To ensure continuous growth and meet the ever-changing demands of the workplace, we provide an environment that fosters continuous development for our employees.
Our employees are encouraged to identify their areas of personal and professional development aligned with our strategic areas, including management development, health, safety & wellbeing, sales, events management, marketing strategy, editorial, and information technology. We have a structured framework designed to help equip our employees with the necessary knowledge, skills, and behaviours to excel in their job roles, contributing to achieving our organisational objectives.
To support our employees’ career development, we have designed specialized programs, as well as other stand-alone role-specific and generic courses, under the emap academy.
Benefits: emap is part of Metropolis Group. Together, we are committed to providing a happy and healthy place to work, so we offer fantastic benefits and perks to our employees.
- 25 days of annual leave, with the option to buy or sell additional days
- One additional day of leave per year- Celebration Day
- Health plan
- Life assurance
- Private virtual GP access
- Seasonal flu jabs available at the office
- Continuous learning & development opportunities
- In-house Excellence Awards and other innovation projects
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Discounted gym memberships
- Retail discount vouchers
- Rail season ticket loans
- Pension scheme
- One paid volunteer day per year
- Annual Summer & Winter Celebrations
- Work from home during August
- Income protection and more
Privacy: Metropolis Group respects the privacy of every person for whom we have personal data. We comply with data protection legislation such as the Data Protection Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulation which regulates the processing of data and ensures that your data is processed fairly and lawfully, is kept secure and only that data necessary for any processing is kept. You can see our privacy policy at www.metropolis.co.uk/privacy.
Diversity and Inclusion: We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, age, religion or belief, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status.
How to apply: Please submit your CV and covering letter. Due to the volume of applications, we receive, we are unable to give individual feedback at the application stage, however if you are successfully shortlisted you will be contacted within 10 working days of your application.