Online Learning Copywriter / Editor London, England
Job description
An exciting new position within Guy's Cancer Academy.
We are looking for a talented online education copywriter editor to join the team creating educational and social content across multiple platforms. The ideal candidate will have working experience of writing and editing copy for a variety of resources, including marketing and educational materials.
1. Write and create learning content for online resources, courses and programmes to support the delivery of Guy’s Cancer Academy’s strategic objectives, and those of the Cancer and Surgery Clinical Group.
2. Curate and write content for the Guy’s Cancer Academy website and social channels.
3. Work collaboratively with healthcare professionals and clinicians to understand their key messages and work through complex, and often sensitive, concepts to understand key messages or learning points.
4. Produce and maintain project plans that deliver agreed resources and provide regular progress updates and highlight risks or potential delays.
5. Frequently attend conferences and training to maintain and develop knowledge in a range of areas, including: VR/AR platforms, and new asynchronous and synchronous platforms.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
Department Information
Guy’s Cancer Academy launched in February 2019 and provides education and training on every aspect of cancer care to both healthcare professionals and patients.
Our multidisciplinary team designs, develops and facilitates online training, masterclasses, conferences, preceptorship programmes, and university-accredited courses.
Guy’s Cancer Academy has rapidly established itself as a leader in delivering high-quality online cancer education and training within the NHS. This role is based within our Learning Laboratory and aims to significantly increase our capacity for content production and innovation.
Duties and Responsibilities
Online learningcontent
1.1 Edit learning content to ensure consistency, tone of voice, and compliance with the Learning Laboratory language style and brand guidelines.
1.2Design and create learning activities for online courses to create high-quality resources using tools like: H5P, Affinity Designer, Da Vinci resolve, Rise, Vyond.
1.3Support the management and maintenance of Guy’s Cancer Academy’s existing online learning resources and learning platform.
1.4Support the filming of complex procedures and scenarios in clinical settings.
External communications content
2.1 Edit online content for Guy’s Cancer Academy’s website and social channels to ensure consistency, tone of voice, and compliance with the Learning Laboratory language style and brand guidelines.
Communication
3.1 Work with others to bring together multiple concepts and consider the various options for structuring and designing, taking into account the audience, subject matter and outcomes.
3.3Present complex, sensitive or contentious information, which is difficult to explain through appropriate and expert use of videos, animation, and other media. Use persuasion and tact to judge best options and facilitate decision making.
3.4Support interviews and small group workshops (usually between 5–20 people) to learn more about complex topics, which you are unlikely to know much about, to gain stakeholder feedback.
3.5Take a learner-centric perspective to consider what the target learner will be able to understand.
3.6Act as an advocate for the organisation’s tone of voice and style guidelines.
Planning and strategy
4.1 Oversee, train and supervise freelancers who will support filming and editing on specific projects.
Research and development
5.1 Regularly undertake research and development activity and contribute to a programme of R&D within the Learning Lab to explore novel edtech applications
