Hybrid Senior Communications Advisor chez Mercy Health

Employment Type: Full time

Location: Hybrid - 3 days per week in North Richmond required

Upload with Application: Resume, cover letter addressing key activities (selection criteria) and relevant qualifications

Contact: Stephanie Puls - [email protected]

Where there’s life, there’s Mercy.

Where there’s care, there’s You.

Mercy Health is a for-purpose organisation with over 10,000 dedicated, compassionate staff. With Mercy, you’ll have the chance to make an impact on the lives of people across the country by contributing to a diverse offering of ageing and health services.

About the opportunity

Mercy Health is recruiting a Senior Communication Advisor to focus on Healthy Ageing and Support Services. ('Support services' - commonly known as corporate communication.) The role sits within a small, collaborative and collegiate communication and engagement function and will suit a generalist with external and internal communication experience.

What you’ll bring
 

To thrive in this role, you will have:

• Excellent communication skills

• High quality stakeholder manager skills

• The ability to nurture friendly, respectful relationships and contribute to a collaborative team environment.

Key activities:

• Deliver communication strategies for organisation priorities (focused on healthy ageing & corporate communication); write and edit content such as news articles, speeches, internal newsletters and social media posts; proactively develop and maintain a network of contacts to source content and increase engagement; maintain high standards of accuracy and project a positive image for Mercy Health.

• Develop and deliver internal communication strategies; create content for employees that is engaging and high quality.

• Contribute to social media content and strategy.

• Monitor the effectiveness of strategies and campaigns and adjust approach based on feedback and data.

• Identify reputational risk and liaise with internal stakeholders to mitigate and respond.

• Provide confident, evidence-based advice about communication to colleagues including senior management.

• Contribute to key projects across the organisation where necessary. Whilst the portfolio focus of this role is Healthy Ageing and Support Services, support will be required on other topics (eg Health Services) from time to time.

You will also be required to provide evidence of, or in the process of obtaining:

• A current Police Record Check and Working with Children Check.

Ready to help us shape the future of healthcare?

Join us and make a meaningful difference in people’s lives - and your career.

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Please contact us if you would like to find out more or communicate any requirements to ensure we provide you with a fair and equitable interview and selection process.

We acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung peoples, traditional Custodians of the Land in which our Head Office is based, on traditional lands of the Kulin Nation and recognise their deep connections to the land, sea, and culture.

We extend this acknowledgment to the many Traditional Lands that we operate across Australia and pay our respects to Elders past and present.

The team at Mercy Health is as wonderfully diverse as the patients, residents, clients and communities we support. We’re proud to be recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA). Mercy Health strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all ages, sexualities, genders, abilities and cultural backgrounds.