Help Us Win Opportunities That Change Lives
At Community Integrated Care, we believe everyone should have the opportunity to live the best life possible. As one of the UK's leading social care charities, we're committed to delivering innovative, high-quality support that enables people to lead meaningful and fulfilling lives.
We're looking for a talented Bid Writing Specialist to join our ambitious Business Development Team. This is an exciting opportunity for an exceptional writer who can transform complex information into compelling, persuasive proposals that win new business and support the growth of services that make a genuine difference.
This is a temporary 6 month fixed term contract with attendance required at least once a week at our head office in Widnes so our ideal candidate will be based within an hours commute of our head office in Widnes.
What is The Deal for you?
- Flexibility! You can work your full-time hours over 4 days and enjoy a long weekend or work over 5 days to accommodate your other commitments.
- Benefits: Retail discounts, holiday discounts, cycle to work scheme and travel discounts through our benefits app.
- Best Lives Possible: You'll be working for an award winning charity who is passionate about ensuring our colleagues and the people we support lead the best lives bolder
- Development: We'll work with you to develop your career or to learn and experience new things. We're passionate about developing our people!
- Dare to Learn: Access to our amazing online training platform where you can upskill taking a variety of courses and qualifications.
- Support: From our Employee Assistance Programme (available 24/7), financial support options, and wellbeing fund you'll have the support available to lead an easier (financial) life.
As our Bid Writing Specialist, you'll be at the heart of our growth strategy, creating high-quality tender submissions, framework applications, presentations and business proposals that showcase our expertise, innovation and values.
Working closely with operational teams, subject matter experts and senior leaders across the organisation, you'll identify key commissioning priorities, develop winning bid strategies and produce engaging content that clearly articulates our value proposition.
From analysing tender opportunities and conducting research to writing compelling submissions and supporting tender interviews, you'll play a crucial role in helping us secure contracts that enable us to extend our impact across communities throughout the UK.
What you'll be doing:
- Writing and developing high-quality tender responses, ITTs, PQQs, EOIs, framework applications and bespoke proposals.
- Reviewing and analysing tender opportunities to identify risks, opportunities and strategic fit.
- Conducting research into commissioners, market conditions and sector priorities to strengthen bid submissions.
- Collaborating with operational teams to gather evidence, case studies and service information.
- Managing tender timelines, milestones and contributor engagement to ensure successful submissions.
- Developing engaging presentations and supporting tender interviews where required.
- Maintaining and enhancing our bid library, case studies and supporting documentation.
- Analysing feedback from successful and unsuccessful bids to continuously improve performance.
- Supporting wider business development initiatives, market testing exercises and service development activities.
What we’re looking for:
You'll be a confident and highly organised bid professional with outstanding written communication skills and a passion for producing high-quality content that delivers results.
You'll be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple projects simultaneously and building strong relationships with colleagues and stakeholders at all levels.
Essential Skills and Experience
- Experience writing successful bids and tenders within a business development environment.
- Excellent written English, editing and proofreading skills.
- Strong research and analytical capabilities.
- Ability to interpret complex information and translate it into compelling, customer-focused responses.
- Experience coordinating contributions from multiple stakeholders.
- Advanced Microsoft Office skills.
- Excellent time management, organisation and prioritisation skills.
- Strong communication and relationship-building abilities.
Desirable
- Experience securing contracts within the social care, health or third sector.
- Knowledge of social care commissioning, legislation and regulation.
- Understanding of procurement processes and public sector tendering.
- Degree qualification in a relevant discipline.
- Knowledge of Community Integrated Care and the wider social care sector.
Why Join Us?
This is more than a bid writing role. It's an opportunity to use your writing talent to help secure services that support thousands of people to live happy, healthy and independent lives.
You'll join a passionate, supportive and values-led organisation where your work has a direct impact on our ability to grow, innovate and transform communities across the UK.
If you're an exceptional writer with a proven track record in bid development and a desire to make a meaningful difference, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today and help us create opportunities that change lives.
Please note, if you are interested in this role, we welcome your application as soon as possible! Depending on the volume of applications received, the vacancy may be closed before the expected advertising end date.
Interested and want to know a bit more?
To find out more about our charity check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-zYkoj7x8s
We’re really proud to be a Hive HR Employee Voice Certified organisation, a recognition that confirms our commitment to creating a culture where our colleagues are not only encouraged to share their thoughts, but where this feedback is actively sought and acted upon to drive positive change at every level.
In our 2025 Colleague Engagement Survey, 59% (nearly 3,800) of our people shared their feedback and insights, giving us an incredible Employee Net Promoter Score of +34.
The Employee Net Promoter Score is a measure of how willing our colleagues are to recommend us as a good place to work to their loved ones – and a score of +34 is considered a Very Good score when compared to global benchmarks set by hundreds of other organisations.
