Designer

Job overview

Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent & Medway NHS Trusts, the Kent & Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB) & Medway Community Healthcare. Nursing vacancies are also open to Student Nurses & Newly Qualified Nurses.

You will be a Senior Design specialist in the Communications and Engagement Team, leading the creation of high-quality visual, digital and multimedia content that supports communication, engagement and campaign activity for Kent Community Health NHS FT. The trust delivers a wide range of internal and external communications activity, including digital communications, campaigns, publications, websites, social media, video content, events and patient information.

Alongside your trust responsibilities, you will also work closely with the Head of Digital Communications to support the development and delivery of a proposed Kent-wide NHS design programme, which will bring together design and communications colleagues from NHS organisations across Kent & Medway to strengthen design capacity, share expertise and support the delivery of high-quality communications and engagement activity. You will manage multiple design and creative projects simultaneously, ensuring work is delivered to agreed standards, timescales and priorities. You will work closely with communications colleagues, service leads and system partners to develop creative concepts, advise on design approaches and deliver effective communications solutions.

Main duties of the job

Your daily activities will be varied and may include:

• leading the design and production of corporate publications, reports, presentations, campaign materials and information resources
• developing creative concepts and visual identities for campaigns, projects and organisational priorities
• producing digital content for websites, intranets, social media, email communications and online platforms
• creating and editing video content, animations and multimedia resources
• providing specialist advice on branding, accessibility, user experience and visual communication
• supporting photography, filming and live streaming activity where appropriate
• coordinating design projects and requests that form part of the Kent NHS design programme
• supporting oversight of project pipelines, workload management and capacity planning across the virtual design network
• developing collaborative relationships with communications and design colleagues across NHS organisations in Kent
• managing relationships with external suppliers, printers, agencies and production partners
• evaluating the effectiveness of design and campaign activity and identifying opportunities for improvement
• maintaining and promoting NHS and organisational brand standards across all communications materials.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a community Trust, many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. Where driving is a requirement of the role, you will be asked to confirm that you hold a full UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country (not exchanged from a non-EU country) to proceed with your application. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment. If you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via kentchft.recruitment@nhs.net, quoting the vacancy reference number, so we can support you further.

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

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At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

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