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Radio Presenter Employment Contract UK

Set confident on-air presentation within live compliance, timing and station editorial controls.

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Role-specific duties

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Working hours

Standard and flexible working arrangements.

Holiday entitlement

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Confidentiality

Client and company confidentiality.

Disciplinary process

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Notice periods

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When to use this contract

Deliver engaging compliant programmes, produce accurate running-order delivery, and complete guest competition and incident handovers.

Workplace context: Office, studio, remote systems, client meetings or approved project locations.

What makes this role different

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering programmes shifts preparation and cover. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering live output guests callers and delay. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering music competitions advertising and compliance. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering recordings social media conduct and corrections. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering client confidentiality.

Not a fit / obtain specialist advice

Recheck the role or obtain appropriate advice if the work would exceed these maintained authority boundaries: The presenter cannot promise prizes, conceal paid promotion, broadcast unsupported allegations or commit the station outside delegated editorial authority. Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

What to prepare before you issue it

  • the programmes and shift pattern
  • the editorial and live escalation rules
  • the guest caller and competition process
  • the commercial and endorsement restrictions
  • the recording social and handover arrangements

Day-to-day operating brief

What Radio Presenter work looks like in practice

A Radio Presenter hosts live or recorded programmes, introduces music and features, interviews guests and communicates with listeners while keeping to running orders and station standards. Terms should identify programmes, shifts and cover, preparation time, scripts and ad-libs, delay systems, music and commercial separation, competitions, callers and guests, emergency announcements, social media, personal endorsements, outside broadcasts, recording rights, conduct, compliance training and the procedure for correcting an on-air error.

Responsibilities reflected in the contract

  • Prepare and present assigned programmes.
  • Follow running orders timings and compliance cues.
  • Conduct approved interviews and audience interactions.
  • Separate editorial content from commercial messages.
  • Record incidents corrections and programme handovers.

A realistic working scenario

A caller makes a serious unverified allegation during a live phone-in. The presenter uses the station's delay and escalation process instead of developing the claim for dramatic effect.

Outputs to agree

  • engaging compliant programmes
  • accurate running-order delivery
  • complete guest competition and incident handovers

Records and evidence

  • Programme brief script and running order.
  • Guest caller consent and note.
  • Music advert competition and cue log.
  • Incident correction recording and handover.
  • Design files.
  • Project briefs.

Reporting relationship

Typically reports to Creative Director, Design Lead, Account Director or Project Manager. Confirm the employer's actual reporting structure in the builder.

Authority and escalation

  • The presenter cannot promise prizes, conceal paid promotion, broadcast unsupported allegations or commit the station outside delegated editorial authority.
  • Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

Tools and systems

  • Design software.
  • Project management tools.
  • Approval systems.
  • Client communication tools.

Workplace context

  • Office, studio, remote systems, client meetings or approved project locations.

Contract priorities

  • programmes shifts preparation and cover
  • live output guests callers and delay
  • music competitions advertising and compliance
  • recordings social media conduct and corrections

Information the employer should prepare

  • the programmes and shift pattern
  • the editorial and live escalation rules
  • the guest caller and competition process
  • the commercial and endorsement restrictions
  • the recording social and handover arrangements

Individually written and reviewed against the maintained role record.

Maintained role evidence

The facts this Radio Presenter contract is built around

These role-pack details give an employer something concrete to check before using the contract for creative & media work.

Work setting

Office, studio, remote systems, client meetings or approved project locations.

Primary duties

  • Prepare and present assigned programmes.
  • Follow running orders timings and compliance cues.
  • Conduct approved interviews and audience interactions.
  • Separate editorial content from commercial messages.

Tools and training to confirm

  • Design software.
  • Project management tools.
  • Approval systems.
  • Client communication tools.

Governance focus

Employer procedures and role controls. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering programmes shifts preparation and cover. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering live output guests callers and delay. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering music competitions advertising and compliance.

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Role wording

Radio Presenter duties

Deliver engaging compliant programmes, produce accurate running-order delivery, and complete guest competition and incident handovers.

Prepare and present assigned programmes. Follow running orders timings and compliance cues. Conduct approved interviews and audience interactions. Separate editorial content from commercial messages. Record incidents corrections and programme handovers.

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What is added to the finished contract

The presenter cannot promise prizes, conceal paid promotion, broadcast unsupported allegations or commit the station outside delegated editorial authority.

Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering programmes shifts preparation and cover.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering live output guests callers and delay.

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Frequently asked questions

Can the Presenter ad-lib?

Within the station's editorial and compliance boundaries.

How are live callers handled?

Use screening, consent, delay and escalation controls.

Can prizes be promised on air?

Only under approved competition terms.

Are personal endorsements allowed?

Apply commercial conflict and disclosure rules.

Who owns programme recordings?

Set recording and employment rights clearly.

What happens after an on-air error?

Correct and report it through station procedure.

Can social media promote the show?

Yes within account and conduct authority.

What is handed over?

Scripts, guests, competitions, recordings, incidents and follow-ups.

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