Job Title: Senior Subeditor

Location: London

Reports to: Chief Subeditor

Grade: 3

About Us:

We are the Royal College of Pharmacy, the professional leadership body for pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists.

As the third largest workforce in healthcare, pharmacy plays a vital role in the health system, and as experts in medicines, pharmacists and their teams are central to patient care and public health. Our mission is to put pharmacy at the forefront of patient care, advancing the safe and effective use of medicines to the benefit of patients and the public.

We drive excellence in practice by providing expert leadership and support to our members and the wider pharmacy community, developing professional standards and guidance, advancing pharmacy through policy development and advocacy and supporting professional development and patient safety through assurance, credentialing and learning resources.

We champion pharmacy across Great Britain and internationally, with a vision to be the world leader in the safe and effective use of medicines.

Our Governance and Leadership

The Royal College of Pharmacy is a charitable body incorporated under Royal Charter (A charity registered in England and Wales (1217916), and Scotland (applied for)). We exist to advance the safe and effective use of medicines, drive excellence in patient care and support pharmacists to deliver the highest standard of practice.

Our structure brings together professional leadership, national insight and organisational expertise to ensure pharmacy remains at the forefront of patient care. Through collaboration across our Board of Trustees, Senate, councils and advisory groups, along with our Executive team and directors, we influence policy, develop standards and support excellence across pharmacy.

Pharmaceutical Press (PhP), the knowledge business and wholly owned subsidiary of the Royal College of Pharmacy, shares a foundational commitment with the College to advance the safe and effective use of medicines, ensuring health professionals globally have quick and easy access to independent, evidence-based pharmaceutical knowledge.

Pharmaceutical Press Ltd. returns its profits to the royal college to support the College’s charitable objectives.

Our values, culture and inclusion

Our culture is grounded in professionalism, integrity and public service. We are committed to equity, diversity and inclusion, recognising that diverse perspectives strengthen leadership and decision-making.

Through this, we actively work to create a culture of belonging and inclusive leadership, ensuring our people feel valued, supported and able to contribute fully to the future of pharmacy.

Central Services

We support the organisation to achieve its goals by provide people, technology, facilities and financial services.

The organisation has recently gone through a significant change, moving from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society to the Royal College of Pharmacy (RCPharm), a registered charity with trading subsidiaries.

Consequently, a key focus for the Finance department and this role, will be to strengthen the new charity’s financial control environment, implement new charitable requirements, and in partnership with senior stakeholders, to transform financial processes

The Role Profile:

You will ensure our content is precise and presented in the best possible way to our readers. You will have experience of different multimedia formats and help to bring these to life. You will write punchy headlines and interesting captions. You will insist on proper grammar, correct spelling and catch any typos. You will sharpen language and cut clichés. You will have exemplary proofreading skills. Working with the other members of the production team, you will strive to improve how our content is discovered and experienced on our website.

Main Accountabilities:

• Subedit news and expert commentary to ensure it reads well and adheres to house style;

• Subedit scientific and clinical copy to ensure content is free of errors;

• Fact check sources and identify statements at risk of libel;

• Write headlines and standfirsts that get to the crux of a story and lure the reader in;

• Research pictures and write picture captions;

• Add value with multimedia content, including videos and podcasts;

• Liaise with reporters, expert authors and editors;

• Employ keywords for SEO;

• Tag content for semantic enrichment;

• Create newsletters and ensure these are sent out on time;

• Proofread articles and ensure a final check is carried out on each piece of content;

• Ensure smooth flow of article through production;

• Ensure the best possible presentation of content online.

This list is a summary of the main accountabilities of this role and is not exhaustive. The role holder may be required to undertake other reasonable duties from time to time.

Success Measures

• Improved quality of content;

• Articles produced and published on schedule;

• Increased traffic to the website by targeted usage of keywords;

• Increased click rate on newsletters;

• Improved use of multimedia formats;

• Constructive and effective relationships with all stakeholders;

• Improve the visual presentation of content.

Knowledge & Skills for this job

• Journal publishing processes;

• Copyediting, proofreading;

• Experience of working on content in different formats;

• STM publishing;

• Writing and editing skills;

• An understanding of the healthcare sector;

• Working knowledge of Wordpress, CSS and HTML;

• Working knowledge of Mailchimp;

• Working knowledge of InDesign;

• Experience with using social media to promote content.
  

Date Job Description Agreed: July 26