Job vacancy: Graphic Designer, Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust, Willerby

Job summary

Main area: Design
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 338-6490371-24

Employer: Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Trust HQ
Town: Willerby
Salary: £28,407 - £34,581 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 18/08/2024 23:59

Graphic Designer

NHS AfC: Band 5

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The position of Graphic Designer within the Trust’s Communications team, would be suitable for an experienced designer who is looking at taking the next step in their career by moving into a position with more responsibility as creative lead in graphic design for the Trust.

The role offers the chance to work both independently on projects where they would be able to apply their creativity and also within a larger team where collaborative working ensures large scale projects are co-produced across multimedia platforms.

Working as a brand guardian, the post holder will have responsibility to channel our brand across our organisation, developing and promoting our sector leading online Brand Centre.

For further information with regard to this vacancy please see attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

Essential criteria

Educated to degree level or equivalent in a relevant subject and/or equivalent experience working in a graphic design office or communications/marketing department.
Specialist knowledge of graphic design
Knowledge of communications, public relations, and marketing techniques, approaches and procedures gained through practical experience working in public relations, marketing, communications or as a journalist.
Experience of working in a similar role

Desirable criteria

A professional postgraduate qualification in graphic design
Proficient in the use of and a strong understanding of social media and online platforms (including content management systems).
Knowledge of how to instruct external consultancies and agencies including photographers, designers and printers
Knowledge of managing and creating content for digital platforms including social media.

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of working with a wide range of professional graphic design programmes, such as Adobe Creative Cloud (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat)
Demonstrable experience of producing innovative, high-quality content for a variety of audiences and a variety of channels, evidenced with a portfolio of design work

Desirable criteria

Experience of working as part of a communications team
Experience of evaluating effectiveness of outputs across all channels

Skill and competencies

Essential criteria

Ability to interpret a project brief, assess suitable design solutions, make confident judgements and produce solutions, within budget tailored to different audiences and within brand guidelines
Good written, verbal, and presentation skills

Desirable criteria

Competent photographer with experience of taking images to use in corporate communications
Experience of videography from creating footage through to post-production and output.
Experience of using motion graphics to enhance digital content

Please note that if there is a high volume of applications we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date.

This post will be subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period where applicable, further details would be included within any offer letter.

Where operationally feasible the Trust supports agile working, there is an expectation of attendance of 1 day per week at a Trust site as a minimum operationally. Unless specifically stated in the advert that a role will have home as the base of work, all roles will have the option to work from a Trust base if remote working is not for you.

If required for the post the ability to commute within the Trusts geographical area with access to the appropriate means of transport would be essential.

We will apply for a Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service for the successful candidate if this is required for the post. Anyone applying for a position which involves a regulated activity will require an enhanced Disclosure & Barring check and that the disclosure will, where appropriate to the role, include information against the Independent Safeguarding Authority barred lists for working with children or working with adults or both.

IMPORTANT: Should your application be successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted to attend an interview electronically to the email address provided at the time of the application. It is important therefore, that you CHECK YOUR EMAILS/NHS JOBS ACCOUNT on a regular basis.

If you are not contacted by the Trust within six weeks of the closing date of the vacancy, your application will have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We would however like to thank you for the interest you have shown in the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.

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