Medical Communications
Zenopa have a dedicated team of consultants, Gemma McGeary & James Mawby, who specialise in the recruitment for the Medical / Healthcare Communications industry. This includes roles with a full-service fully integrated agency offering the whole range of services to the specialist agencies focusing on one aspect of the communication for example the Adverting, PR or Medical Education of a product.
We also work with a number of in-house communications departments within large blue chip pharmaceutical companies with roles that include a range of functions within communications including Medical Education & PR.
Healthcare communications is a diverse, dynamic and challenging career. Open any daily newspaper or magazine, surf the news on-line, turn on the radio or TV and there are literally hundreds of health stories covered every day. Reports about the latest drugs developed to treat breast canceror obesity, NICE denying patients access to treatments for Alzheimer's disease, government policy and serviceprovision - very little is more topical or interesting than our health.
What sort of people work in healthcare communications?
The majority of people in healthcare communications have degrees, but not all join straight from university. People move across from nursing, journalism, charity fundraising and many more. The variety of people in healthcare communications leads to a dynamic work environment, with teams of exciting professionals from a range of disciplines.
Who would I work for?
A job in healthcare communications could mean working for a whole range of organisations. This can vary from a full services agency to one that specialises in one aspect of a communications programme for example advertising or PR. The roles on offer will quickly provide you with experience of conducting PR and medical communications programmes on a variety of medicines and disease areas and allow you to see the variety that this kind of career can offer.
