Reporter, The Pharmacist

Pharmacy is one of the most rapidly changing sectors of the NHS, with expanding responsibilities for pharmacists working on the high street and in general practice, bringing with it a range of political, clinical, professional and business challenges and opportunities.

For a journalist interested in health policy, this is a competitive area, ripe for investigations, exclusives and informative news, to support our pharmacist community to thrive as they navigate the future.

News, interviews, features and data-led investigations will be on your daily agenda.

Key skills will include extensive contact building, developing a good understanding of the day-to-day priorities of working pharmacists, seeking out key voices, attending events, data analysis, and searching out exclusives and leads for investigations.

This is a junior health reporter role, so you will have an NCTJ or degree and ideally have had relevant work or freelance experience as a journalist.

The reporter will report to the deputy editor and work closely with the editor.

The Pharmacist team works alongside our other brands including Pulse, Nursing in Practice, Healthcare Leader and Pulse PCN and there will also be some opportunity to write across these sectors at times.

We have exciting plans ahead for The Pharmacist and are looking for the right person to join our team, with ambition, talent, drive and great ideas.

You will work within a wider team in an innovative health-focused publishing company that offers hybrid working and a central London office. We would like you to spend one day a week (or more, if you like) in our offices in Farringdon, in the City of London.

Responsibilities

• Writing around three news stories a day, including one lead
• Finding exclusive stories
• Building contacts to share with the rest of the news team
• Writing news-led features and in-depth investigations
• Working within tight print and online deadlines
• Going out to meetings and conferences
• Working with the rest of the editorial team to shape the content and direction of Cogora’s publications, which cover the whole of primary care
• Uploading content to the website
• Developing and building weekly newsletters
• Developing and contributing to our social media
• Contributing to the new Pulse podcast.
• Working with the wider Cogora Editorial Brands