Health Editor

Are you an experienced health writer and editor?

Do you want to use your skills to help British Heart Foundation (BHF) fund even more scientific breakthroughs and help us save and improve the lives of families and loved ones?

If so, this Health Editor role could be for you!

About the role

We want to reach and support more people with heart and circulatory conditions, helping them feel informed, empowered, and understood.

As a Health Editor you’ll play a key role in the production of our award-winning Heart Matters magazine, creating and editing high-quality written and video content to support people with heart conditions.

You will generate ideas and produce high-quality, engaging and accurate content with a clear user focus.

You’ll work with key internal and external stakeholders and identify ways to make the best and most efficient use of content across the BHF website, publications and booklets, ensuring the people who need our support are at the heart of everything we do.

Working arrangements

This is fixed term contract until 26 Sep 2025 covering a secondment.

This is a blended role, where your work will be dual located between your home and our London office.

At the BHF we believe in the power of being together, so our colleagues on blended contracts can expect to spend some time in their office, at least one day each week, on average. The use of our office spaces is driven in part by your role and the activities you need to do. 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.

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

About you

You will have strong previous experience of writing, editing, subbing and proofreading content for a varied audience, as well as generating impactful ideas using audience insight and SEO techniques.

A strong leader, you’ll have an attention to detail to eliminate ambiguity and will have excellent written communications skills able to articulate ideas, thoughts and engage in the decision-making process.

You will also have a good knowledge of best practice in health information production and health and science issues, especially relating to heart and circulatory disease and long-term conditions.

About us

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 free from the fear of heart and circulatory diseases.

We value and respect every individual’s unique contribution, celebrate diversity, and make inclusion part of what we do every day. 

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Strategy, Igniting Change, along with our internal EDI group, Kaleidoscope, and a growing number of employee network groups (our Affinity Groups), help us create an environment where all our colleagues and volunteers can succeed.

Interview process

Please note interviews will be held over Microsoft Teams.