Job Title: PR and Content Officer
Location: Home-based/Remote within England
Hours: Full Time (36per week)
Job Status: Fixed Term (up to 12 months)
Salary: £46,958.80
Closing Date: 29 October 2026 (11.59pm)
Interview Date(s): from 7 October 2026.
Skills for Care is the only national charity focused on building a stronger workforce for the quality care we all need. We work with employers, Government, and partners to ensure social care has the right people, skills, and support required to deliver the highest quality care and support, now and in the future. We respond and adapt to the emerging trends and needs within social care, using data and evidence to drive forward widescale change. We provide best practice, tools, resources, and intelligence to support workforce recruitment, capabilities, and culture.
Find out more by taking a look at www.skillsforcare.org.uk.
This is an exciting opportunity to shape how Skills for Care communicates its work, demonstrates its impact and engages audiences across the adult social care sector. As PR and Content Officer, you'll create compelling content across a range of channels, bringing our brand, campaigns, products and services to life while using existing and emerging tools to optimise content for different audiences, maximise reach and strengthen engagement.
Working closely with colleagues across the organisation, including the CEO and leadership team, you'll translate complex workforce issues into clear, engaging stories that inform, influence and inspire action. You'll also play a key role in promoting our products, services and commercial offer, including The Training Hub, helping audiences understand the value of our support and encouraging engagement with our resources and programmes.
Alongside content creation and campaign delivery, you'll lead PR activity, building relationships with media and stakeholders to amplify our messages, extend our reach and strengthen our reputation as a trusted voice on workforce issues. We're looking for an excellent copywriter who is curious about new approaches to content creation and optimisation, and passionate about ensuring our brand, content, products and services remain visible, relevant and sector-leading in a crowded marketplace. This role is ideal for a creative and strategic communications professional who thrives on collaboration and is passionate about delivering communications that make a real difference to the adult social care sector.
If you are interested in this role, please access the full job description for further information and we look forward to receiving your application.
Due to the fixed term nature of this post, we are particularly interested in speaking to candidates who are available to start within approximately 4 weeks (subject to pre-employment checks).
At Skills for Care, we are committed to creating a culture of Belonging, where all of our People are able to contribute to their full potential. All our People are expected to contribute towards the achievement of our aspirations for equality, equity, diversity and inclusion. To find out more please check our website (https://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/About-us/Equality-diversity-and-inclusion/Equality-diversity-and-inclusion.aspx).
At Skills for Care, we want our People to be representative of the society we support, this includes all equality characteristics such as age, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief. This lived experience from a diverse group of people helps us with all the work that we do and ultimately supports the social care sector to provide the best quality care. We encourage applications from, but not limited to, people from minoritised ethnic backgrounds, people who identify as LGBTQ+ and people with disabilities.
Candidates will be selected based on experience and potential.
Information About Reasonable Adjustments
We want all applicants to be able to fully participate in our selection processes. We welcome requests for adjustments to our recruitment and selection processes from applicants with disabilities, impairments, or health conditions, and will always consider support available in the recruitment process.
Please contact our People Team via email (recruitment@skillsforcare.org.uk) to discuss any adjustments that you may need.