Job Description

Role Profile - Deputy Editor, The Pharmacist, Pulse PCN and Healthcare Leader
Location: Central London (Hybrid)
Reporting to: Editor, The Pharmacist, Pulse PCN and Healthcare Leader
Expected start date: December 2025/January 2026
Salary: 40,000 to 42,000 per annum, depending on experience
About us
We are a leading integrated media and marketing services company at the heart of a community of over 590,000 UK healthcare professionals. With more than 30 years of experience, we produce industry-leading content and experiences through our award-winning brands, publications, and events. We produce trusted, data-driven content that informs and inspires healthcare professionals across the UK and Europe. We are a Great Place to Work and UK's Best Workplaces for Women certified employer, offering a range of benefits including 28 days annual leave (rising to 30 days after 2 years) excluding bank holidays, private healthcare insurance, flexible working and more.
About the Role
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.
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 website
• Interviewing 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

Key skills and experience
Essential

• 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
• Excellent people skills

Highly desirable

• Experience managing
• A background in healthcare journalism

Desirable, but not essential

• Science degree;

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
If you would like to join a progressive company with excellent career prospects and want to be part of our journey, then we are looking forward to hearing from you! The final deadline to apply is Monday, 17th 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 , 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.
Apply to:
Victoria Vaughan
Editor
Cogora Limited
The Pharmacist, Pulse PCN and Healthcare Leader
1 Giltspur Street
London
EC1A 9DD
United Kingdom

Skills Required