Deputy Editor, The Pharmacist, Pulse PCN and Healthcare Leader

We are seeking a deputy editor to join our editorial team, to hit the ground running and bring energy and drive to our award-winning publications.

The NHS is going through rapid changes throughout its structure and increasingly health professionals are required to collaborate across organisations. Healthcare Leader is at the forefront of covering the top-level policy changes in the NHS, Pulse PCN leads the way in covering the move to a Neighbourhood NHS and The Pharmacist covers the frontline professionals upon which many of these ambitions are pinned.

This role is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced senior reporter or news editor who is looking to take the next step.

You will manage two reporters, running the news desk and editing stories for daily newsletters. You will carry out editorial projects, leading interviews and support the editor in growing the brands.

Key skills will include an ability to: understand the audience and related news agenda, quickly edit copy, share knowledge with reporters, make links with key contacts, carrying out roundtables and podcasts, attend and cover events, analyse data, generate strong content ideas which result in great stories.

This is a senior role, so you will have at least three years’ experience on a publication, ideally in the healthcare sector, an NCTJ or degree.

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.

Why Join Us

- You’ll play a key role in shaping impactful editorial strategy — commissioning, editing, and producing high-quality content that influences clinical practice and health policy.

- You’ll collaborate with talented writers, editors, and healthcare experts across a range of respected brands and digital platforms.

- Your editorial leadership will help shape the conversations that matter in healthcare.

How to Apply

The final deadline to apply is Monday, 17 th November 2025 but we strongly advise submitting applications as soon as possible as we are looking to fill this role immediately. Interviews will be arranged as and when suitable candidates apply and we reserve the right to close applications at any time once a successful candidate has been selected. Please send a CV, cover letter and examples of published work to the editor, Victoria Vaughan victoriavaughan@cogora.com , or apply below.

Please note that due to the expected high numbers of applications, we are only able to contact successful candidates. No recruitment agencies please.

Responsibilities

- Editing around four news stories a day, including two leads

- Being across the NHS news agenda

- Coming up with ideas for features and investigations

- Leading on editorial projects such as roundtables

- Chairing events around the UK

- Making links with key organisations and leaders

- Attending meetings and conferences

- Uploading content to the websiteInterviewing KOLs

- Writing news, features and interviews

- Developing and building weekly newsletters

- Developing and contributing to our social media

- Developing and delivering strategy and projects with the Editor

- Working with the wider Cogora Editorial Brands

- A portfolio of news stories you’ve edited and/or written;

- At least a year of news editing or three years as a senior reporter

- An appetite for editing news in a fast-paced environment

- A knowledge of the UK health sector

- A keen eye for news and feature trends

- Creative skills for content ideas and execution

Highly desirable

- Experience managing

- A background in healthcare journalism

Desirable, but not essential

27 days holiday, plus bank holidays, your birthday and loyalty days

Option to purchase
additional holiday

Cycle to work loan + Season
ticket loan

Flexible working hours and
working from home option

6 weeks full pay maternity leave and
2 weeks paternity

Volunteering / charity days
and contributions

About Cogora

Cogora is one of the UK’s leading full-service healthcare marketing agencies, building a reputation for excellence with over 30 years in the industry.

Through our market-leading brands and educational platforms, covering a range of therapy areas, we have cultivated and grown engaged communities of healthcare professionals, learning what they do, think and really need, in order to provide them with innovative and impactful education that helps them deliver high-quality care to patients.

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