User Experience Designer

We're looking to recruit an accomplished and skilled user experience designer to join the Trust's newly established user insight and experience design team.
The successful candidate will play a crucial role in developing and implementing our user experience strategy, and will focus on shaping user involvement, user research, and co-design approaches to support healthcare service design, and to improve experiences for a range of different groups including patients, staff and healthcare partners.
In addition the new post holder will have skills and expertise to project manage, coordinate and deliver priority user research and co design projects and programmes.
They will also be expert in providing guidance, advice and support across the organisation to help ensure all co design and user research work is delivered using best practice approaches.
We require someone who is creative, and who has good graphic design skills, who is able to develop prototypes and present designs in the most effective ways. And, who has good writing and editing skills, and is confident in presenting and facilitating meetings and design sessions., + The post holder will play an important role in the development and implementation of the Trust's user insight and user experience design strategy. Their focus will be to ensure a strategic user involvement and co design approach in healthcare service design and to improve experiences for different users, including patients, staff and healthcare partners.
+ The post holder will play a lead role in developing and delivering user research and co-design strategies to support the Trust's services and functions, and will be responsible for project managing and coordinating delivery of priority user research and design projects and programmes.
+ The post holder will provide guidance, advice and support across the organisation to help ensure all co design and user research activities are delivered using best practice approaches. And to advise how best to connect existing insight data into improvement and transformation work (at varying levels), in a consistent and effective way.
+ The post holder will take the lead on designing and delivering user research, codesign, and delivery of user-led improvements for priority projects.

Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.