Health Content Editor

Job Description:

Health Content Editor

Salary: From £36,400 + Fantastic Benefits

Location status: Hybrid - 2 Days a week in the office

Location: Angel Court (London) or Bupa Place (Manchester)

Role Type: Secondment - 12 Months

Shift pattern: Full Time - 37.5 Hours

We make health happen

At Bupa, our purpose is simple - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.

As a Health content editor, you are responsible for reviewing and editing our library of medical topics and lifestyle articles, managing relationships with clinicians, and supporting stakeholders with their requests for health content.

Key Responsibilities

• Be comfortable critically appraising evidence, data, and research to make content decisions.
• Write and review different types and formats of health content.
• Build relationships to influence stakeholders and focus on the needs of the user.
• Contribute to and use our in-house health content style and production guides.

• Work collaboratively with health content colleagues and other digital and clinical teams.
• Create briefs for multimedia assets.
• Contribute to content and process improvement conversations within the team.
• Work closely with our bank of freelance editors.
• Liaise with expert clinicians to obtain feedback and approval on content.
• Help with coordinating our review planning process.

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for someone who is organised, collaborative and focused on making things better. You’ll also bring:

Agile working. You are aware of and understand agile methodology and can apply an agile mindset to your work. You can work in a fast-paced, evolving environment and use an iterative and flexible approach to enable rapid delivery. You can use a range of tools and platforms to plan and manage your work.

Critical appraisal skills. A deep understanding of hierarchy of evidence and critical appraisal skills.

Education. A relevant degree or qualification in a communication and/or life sciences area.

Medical language. Broad knowledge of medical language and terminology, including an understanding of the importance of health literacy and communicating medical statistics, messages, facts, and advice to consumers.

Stakeholder relationship management. You have a good working relationship with stakeholders, and you work to understand their needs. You feel comfortable asking them questions and involving them in your process, you understand the value this brings to the end product.

User-centred health content creation. You create health content to meet user needs and make complex language and processes easy to understand. You can present the right information in the right format for what users need. You have robust experience of writing and editing. You write in plain English, in a way that users understand, making information accessible to all. You understand accessibility requirements and can create health content that works with common assistive technologies. You use data, research, and evidence to review and evaluate health content to make improvements. You consistently and effectively apply content standards and style guidelines to your work. You work to continuously improve our content and understand why content lifecycle management is important. You can work autonomously.

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health - from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
• Various other benefits and online discounts

Why Bupa

Why Bupa - We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

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