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As our Senior Health Editorial Lead, you’ll lead the strategy, delivery and development of health content products and programmes.

An experienced health content professional with editorial, digital, strategic thinking, stakeholder management and content creation skills, you’ll lead a team to maintain high standards of content, design, and information excellence.

You will oversee the delivery and future development of the Heart Matters portfolio, which currently includes an award-winning biweekly email newsletter and quarterly heart health magazine. You will ensure that our health content reflects broader BHF priorities and creates customer journeys aligned to organisational strategy.

With other senior colleagues, you’ll lead on digital best practice for health content, including search engine optimisation, content design, user journeys, and driving conversions to agreed goals.

Acting as a subject matter expert and source of best practice, you’ll provide support and guidance to colleagues around the organisation on their communications, especially with patient audiences.

About you

As our ideal candidate, you have impressive, proven and extensive experience managing the delivery of high editorial standards of health content in multiple formats to a wide and varied audience, including consumers and professionals.

With strong leadership, communication and influencing skills, you have a proven track record of effective project and team management, and experience of communicating with and influencing senior stakeholders.

Possessing high levels of science literacy, knowledge of behavioural change models and experience of applying them to health content, you can turn complex medical information into engaging, accessible content and have experience in delivering user-centred content to tight deadlines.

Demonstrating a high degree of empathy and compassion for patient and public issues, and a commitment and understanding of diversity in relation to health promotion and long-term condition management, you naturally act as an advocate for the patient voice across the organisation.

Our ambition is to build, develop and empower a talented and diverse team. Join us at BHF and be part of a supportive environment where you can thrive both personally and professionally.

Working arrangements

This is a 12-month fixed term contract to cover a secondment.

This is a hybrid role, where your work will be split between your home and one day per week, on average, in our London office. This may vary from time to time, so you will need to work in a flexible way to unlock your best work for our cause.

Belonging at BHF

We are committed to fostering a workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. Embracing different perspectives and backgrounds strengthens our organisation and empowers us to make a real difference together.

To hear from our people, check out Belonging at BHF.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do. By funding research across six decades, we’ve helped keep millions of hearts beating and millions of families together. We’re investing in ground-breaking research that will get us closer than ever to a world where everyone has a healthier heart for longer.

Benefits and development

At BHF, we offer a comprehensive range of benefits designed to support our colleagues’ wellbeing and professional growth.

To find out more about our benefits you can download the Benefits document at the bottom of this page or check out our Benefits and Development pages.

Need more help balancing your work and home life? Talk to us about what flexibility is available at the application or interview stage.

Interview process

The interview process will consist of two stages. First stage interviews will be held over MS Teams on 18 November 2026 for those successful, there will be second stage interviews in-person at our London Office (NW1 7AW) on 26 November 2026.

How to apply

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