Principal Communications Officer

Metro South Health Media and Communications are looking for a Principal Communications Officer to join their team. The Media and Communications team offers high quality communication advice, planning and support across Metro South Health. Media and Communications team members bring a wealth of experience from a diverse range of backgrounds to support all aspects of communication activities, including proactive and reactive media, communications, issues and risk management, brand and reputation management, design, web, events, videos, copywriting, editing, and more.

Metro South Health is Australia's first digital health service and one of the largest in Queensland, with an estimated residential population of approximately one million people or 23 per cent of Queensland's population. 

This is your opportunity to join the dedicated team of professionals at Metro South Health and be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology, excellence in health care, teaching, research and empowering our people to be the best in serving our community.

About the Role

• Provide senior level communications advice to the Director Strategic Communications to maximise the benefits of events, services, promotions and initiatives.
• Write, edit and produce a variety of internal and external communication materials that are of high quality, accurate, consistent, and appropriately tailored for the relevant audience/situation.
• Identify risks, escalate to the Director Strategic Communications and assist in the development of appropriate risk management strategies.
• Manage the development of communication campaigns, both public and internal, to support the health service's key strategies and programs.
• Research, analyse and interpret current and emerging issues relating to communication including government and industry standards

Find out about the role in more detail and how to apply in the attached Role Description.

Our ICARE² values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence, shape our culture within Metro South Health. Our values guide our day-to-day decision making and are fundamental to what we care about as a health service, how we behave, how we interact with each other and provide care to the many patients who come through our doors every day.

We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.

As a Metro South employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.

You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Metro South here: www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/join-our-team ( http://www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/join-our-team ).