Senior Designer

Senior Designer
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Role Overview:
As a Senior Designer, you will have the opportunity to apply your design expertise to create impactful and user-centric solutions that improve healthcare outcomes. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to lead the design process from concept to delivery, ensuring that our digital products and services meet the diverse needs of our stakeholders.
If you are a creative and experienced designer who is passionate about making a difference in healthcare, please get in touch.
Role Scope:
Full-Time Hours:
Embrace a full-time role with a standard workweek of 37.5 hours.
Fixed Term Position:
Join our team on a 12-week fixed term basis.
Work Schedule:
Primarily remote, with the occasional need to attend training or update sessions in Leeds, typically once or twice a month.
What you'll gain:
Here at our organisation, we're all about valuing your hard work and commitment:
Competitive Salaries:
Enjoy a salary between £58,972 - £68,525 depending on experience. (Pro-Rata)
Cutting-Edge Technology:
Access the latest and most advanced technologies, empowering you to stay at the forefront of your field.
Inclusive Work Environment:
Here, your growth and creativity are encouraged at every turn. We're committed to celebrating diversity and ensuring inclusivity, where every voice matters and contributes to our collective success.
Key Responsibilities:
Design Leadership:
Lead the design strategy and vision for digital healthcare products and services ensuring alignment with organisational goals and user needs.
Communication:
Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including researchers and developers to ensure design alignments and successful project outcomes. Communicate design concepts and recommendations to stakeholders at all levels.
Service Improvement : Identify areas for improvement within an existing service and translate these findings into intuitive and accessible design solutions.
User-Centred Designs : Develop engaging and user-friendly interfaces with a focus on accessibility and usability. Ensure the process for making design decisions is based on design knowledge, user research and knowing the user journey.
Quality Assurance:
You will conduct usability testing and gather feedback to optimise user experiences. Ensuring design consistency and quality while adhering to design standards and best practices .
Knowledge and Skills:
Educational Achievement:
Educated to Master’s level or equivalent experience within a professional working environment.
Specialist Knowledge : Proven experience of applying design knowledge (graphic design, interactive design, or service design) and applying that to applications.
Practical Application:
Demonstrable knowledge and passion for user centred design practices for both public facing and internal services and applications.
Communication : Be able to communicate complex information to a range of audiences in a simplistic form.
The next step?
We value independent thinking and risk-taking. We believe that every team member should have the opportunity to contribute and share their ideas. Our culture encourages a healthy work-life balance, and we strive to create an enjoyable and supportive working environment.
Please visit our website at
www.ardengemcsu.nhs.uk
if you're interested in learning more about who we are.
Our principles .
Our vision, mission, and values focus on diversity. In order to create a workplace that is inclusive, we invest a lot of time hiring and retaining a diverse workforce who represent a variety of cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints. As a result, we actively encourage candidates from underrepresented groups to apply.
Due to the fact that we do not sponsor this position, candidates must be UK residents.
Arden & GEM CSU is committed to supporting the redeployment of our at risk employees. In line with our policy, staff at risk may be given preferential consideration to posts that could be considered suitable alternative employment. We reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. We apologise if you experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle.