Copywriter

Location (UK): Office Hybrid* - London
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week
Salary: £31,918.00 per annum (London)
Benefits: Read more about the excellent benefits we offer
Contract type: Permanent
Travel: Occasional travel to our Chesterfield office
Closing date: 23:59 hours, Thursday 13 March 2025

Join us and use your skills, knowledge, passion and energy to help us achieve a future free from arthritis.

We are responsible for brand, marketing, communications and content together with targeted income propositions. The Income and Engagement Directorate drives action across audiences to deliver the income that funds the charity’s work and the income growth that funds its ambitions.

We play a key role in transforming awareness of arthritis, building the charity's profile and develop a strong, active and loyal community of support.

About the role

Working in partnership with the Designer and Senior Copywriter, the Copywriter will lead the development of creative concepts and the application of our brand’s identity and tone of voice across high impact branded collateral, and on and offline executions.

You are confident in developing and delivering tools to train colleagues in using TOV and overseeing the creative quality of all copy across the charity.

About you

If your knowledge, skills and experience include the following then we’d love to hear from you:

Absorb and champion the Tone of Voice and brand, being able to apply it and help teams across the organisation understand how the Tone of Voice helps us to achieve our strategic objectives.
Develop and deliver tools to train colleagues in using the Tone of Voice so everyone at Versus Arthritis can use it with confidence.
Review existing copy giving constructive feedback and showing how the Tone of Voice can be used to embed our brand and our values.
Draft original copy for long and short formats including brochures, web copy, social media, information booklets and reports, applying understanding of how people with arthritis use these resources and interact with copy.

*As a hybrid worker the expectation is that you will spend around 40% of your working time in our office spaces or working in community settings. As an inclusive employer we will consider home-based working for anyone where office-based hybrid working would be a barrier to being able to work for us, for example for someone living with a long-term health condition or disability.

Download the job description and person specification for the Copywriter role (Word 51.5 KB).

Benefits

Your excellent benefits include:

Flexible hours, environments and working practices to promote a healthy work/life balance.
Health and wellbeing support – including the Employee Assistance Programme (free confidential 24/7 support with mental health, legal and financial queries).
Simplyhealth cash plan.
Supportive and inclusive culture, with a wide range of employee networks and support groups available to join.
Learning and personal development opportunities.
Competitive annual leave, with the option to buy/sell up to five days per year.
Generous pension plan, with employer contribution of up to 10%.
Life Assurance plan (4 x salary).

How to apply

You must be based, and hold the right to work, in the UK to apply for this position.

To apply you MUST submit:

a concise, up-to-date CV
along with a completed Application form (Word 41.2KB) demonstrating how you meet the key requirements set out in the job description and person specification for the Copywriter role (Word 51.5 KB). All sections must be completed.

Email both documents as Word or PDF attachments by 23:59 hours, Thursday 13 March 2025 to recruitment@versusarthritis.org. If you have a health condition that prevents you from following the steps above, please email us regarding alternative ways to apply. 

Application deadline and shortlisting 

We advise candidates to apply early as we reserve the right to close applications ahead of this date.  
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

We do not wish to receive contact from agencies or media sales. 

Please note that we do not use Artificial Intelligence (AI) during our recruitment and selection processes, and we would respectfully ask that you also refrain from using AI during the selection process. Whilst we do recognise that AI may be a beneficial tool for some when aiding research and preparation for an application or interview, we want to maintain a fair, inclusive and positive recruitment experience at Versus Arthritis where candidates can feel supported to demonstrate their experience, knowledge, and skills without the use of AI generated answers.

Interview

Interviews expected: Date to be confirmed at Versus Arthritis London Office

As a Disability Confident Employer, we guarantee you will be offered an interview if you disclose a disability and demonstrate sufficient evidence within your application that you meet the essential criteria for this role. We will also make any reasonable adjustments you may require for your interview.

About us

We have made a commitment in our Diversity and Inclusion Strategy to increase the diversity of our charity and we welcome candidates from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences. We want our employees, volunteers and trustees to represent the broad diversity of the communities of which we are a part.

There are over 10 million people living with arthritis. That’s one in six, with over half of those living in pain every single day. The impact is huge as the condition slowly intrudes on everyday life – affecting the ability to work, care for a family, to move free from pain and to live independently. Yet arthritis is often dismissed as an inevitable part of ageing or shrugged off as ‘just a bit of arthritis’. We don’t think that this is OK. Versus Arthritis is here to change that.

Versus Arthritis is committed to keeping children, young people and vulnerable adults safe from harm. During the recruitment process we will undertake safer recruitment practices and relevant checks to ensure applicants are suitable to work with children, young people and vulnerable adults.