James Brindle Email & Phone Number

My main responsibilities were: . Lead contact for press office enquiries, crisis communications and proactive PR. . Developing and executing communications plans . Sourcing and creating colleague stories for local and industry media. . Promoting Healios’ work and its NHS partnerships. . Arranging events and representing organisation externally. . Leading on internal communications, sourcing and creating for weekly newsletter to colleagues and developing brand new internal colleague magazine. . Writing industry award entries

Cannock, England, United Kingdom

My main responsibilities were:. Writing tenders for potential new contracts including public and private sector. Proofreading tender submissions. Co-ordinating and project managing bids.. Working with various business functions to produce the best tenders possible, including sales, marketing, corporate responsibility and much more.. Creating proposal documents.. Working on presentations for potential new clients.. Managing bid team inbox.

Lichfield, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

Main responsibilities were:• Lead contact for press office enquiries and proactive PR. • Lead on organisation and delivery of PR activity for new store/funeral home openings and regeneration programme, including liaising with photographers, organising ‘ribbon cuttings’, launch activity, creating content, producing post-launch reports etc.• Lead on planning, organisation and PR on seasonal food bank appeals and annual Christmas Toy Appeal.• Provide PR leadership in corporate charity relationships with partners such as Dementia UK and FareShare Midlands.• Plan and produce PR for major seasonal campaigns (Easter, Summer, Christmas) and important events (Fairtrade Fortnight, Co-ops Fortnight).• Pitch and represent Society as spokesperson on radio and TV.• Look out for award entry opportunities and produce entries working with key stakeholders.• Provide PR support to Society campaigning including on retail violence and colleague safety.• Work with community and membership team to highlight PR opportunities in the community which showcase the Society’s values and purpose in action.• Use media monitoring service to monitor and evaluate media coverage.• Provide support to Internal Communications Manager, including covering when they are away from business and providing content for internal emails and Yammer.• Monitoring and producing content for the Society’s social media accounts and dealing with PR issues on social channels.• Provide out of hours PR support to the Society including crisis communications.

Newcastle-Under-Lyme, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

Main responsibilities were:• Line manager to two Communication Support Officers.• Offering communications support to various teams and projects across the Trust including tenders and service changes, producing and delivering communication plans.• First port of call for media enquiries, producing statements, writing proactive press releases to promote the Trust and services, arranging media interviews, organising filming opportunities and ensuring the Trust’s reputation is protected externally.• Monitoring and producing content for the Trust’s social media accounts.• Providing content and editing a monthly internal staff newsletter.• Producing and distributing a monthly news bulletin for our stakeholders.• Using media monitoring software to produce weekly media updates for the board of directors.• Event organisation and planning.• Updating and producing content for the Trust’s external website and internal staff intranet.• Writing award submissions.• Attending board meetings and producing newsletter articles summarising the key items discussed.

Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham

My main responsibilities were:•Responding to media enquiries, producing statements, arranging media interviews, organising filming opportunities and ensuring the Trust’s reputation is protected externally.•Managing integrated communications projects including internal and external aspects, producing and delivering communications plans/strategies on a variety of projects.•Producing press releases to promote good news stories within the Trust and selling those into the media.•Developing and producing a new Trustwide staff magazine, producing content and liaising with designers.•Producing an internal newsletter for the Health and Safety department from initial design to delivery.•Uploading and managing content on the Trust external website and social media accounts.•Developing relationships with senior executives and stakeholders.•Advising site teams and senior executives on communication matters.•Attending site management team meetings as communications representative, presenting departmental activities and providing support.•Creating promotional literature including leaflets and posters.

Bromsgrove

My main responsibilities were:• Producing press releases based on stories from throughout the group, including on corporate achievements, foster carer case studies and fundraising activities and sell those into relevant media• Managing external PR projects for FCA including the annual recruitment and awareness campaign Foster Care Fortnight• Building relationship and producing PR relating to FCA’s ambassador, the former England footballer Mark Wright.• Responding to external media enquiries relating to Core Assets from journalists.• Developing and maintaining strong contacts with journalists and foster friendly contacts between the media and key company executives.• Managing and monitoring national and regional press cuttings, producing reports and illustrations of the coverage.• Arranging photocalls and/or attending events to take photographs for internal and external use.• Managing the company’s intranet, one for staff and one for carers, keeping it up to date with news stories, blogs, image slideshows and other features.• Assisting with key internal projects such as an annual singing competition for staff, foster carers and children.• Writing and distributing key internal messages throughout the organisation.• Working with departments within the business to produce three internal newsletters and one company magazine, including liaising with designers and writing content.• Managing and generating content for the Core Assets twitter account

Burton-Upon-Trent

My main responsibilities were:• Researching, writing and editing articles (including news, court reporting, inquests, business and feature writing) and producing eye catching headlines for stories• Developing and maintaining relationships with a large network of internal and external contacts• Managing the newspaper’s website content and ensuring it is always fully up to date by regularly uploading stories and creating image slideshows• Managing and generating content for the newspaper’s social media accounts, including Facebook and Twitter• Maximising and monitoring the accessibility of the newspaper’s online content via utilisation of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) tools• Mentoring and assisting junior colleagues and taking an active role in deciding upon the layout of each paper• Overseeing the paper’s entertainment pages, which included carrying out a host of interviews with well-known artists such as Example, Labrinth, Keane, Elbow, Foals, The Lighthouse Family, Erasure and Hayley Westenra. I also cover events such as the V Festival and write theatre and cinema reviews.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Modern History

Activities and Societies: Worked on the student newspaper 'Concrete' writing sports articles.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Cricket team