Service Designer (Maternity Cover)

Role: Service Designer
Location: Hybrid (physical location: 15 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5JD)
Salary: NHS AfC Band 8b
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (with opportunities for flexible working)
Contract: 12 month Maternity Cover

The role of Service Designer is to support this type of complex change by bringing energy, expertise, and empathy to bear in the development, execution, and management of innovation projects. 

In this role you will be responsible for realigning end-to-end services across care pathways, providing a sustainable foundation for the future and helping realise a revolution of the service through new clinical technologies. As a service designer you will work as part of a multidisciplinary agile team to design services for donors, families, the patients of North West London. This will include services and products across both digital and offline channels.

The role also includes active participation in the development and culture of ICHP as an organisation, sharing responsibility for making ICHP a great place to work, and taking a specific managerial responsibility for the development of colleagues.

Read more and apply here.

Main responsibilities

  • Simultaneously lead on several external projects and provide input / advice to several others.
  • Play a significant role in clarifying the problem that our work is trying to solve from a design perspective. Support partners to reflect productively on what they are wanting to address and why.
  • Responsible for:
    • Ensuring services align with service strategic direction, design principles and user needs
    • Leading the co-creation and iteration of design artefacts
    • Developing service proposition(s) and service maps to align the delivery team
    • Championing the use and value of human centred design tools and techniques throughout the organisation (including but not limited to user research, service mapping, ideation, co-design, prototyping and storyboarding)
    • Designing, leading, and facilitating co-design workshops with wide range of stakeholders including end users

Essential requirements

  • Experience of applying service design methodologies
  • Extensive further experience gained through on the job training in user-centred design disciplines
  • Knowledge and experience of Microsoft Office products
  • Strong understanding of how digital economy is changing user behaviour and public sector landscape
  • Experience applying technical knowledge and experience to create or design workable prototypes, both programs and physical outputs
  • Ability to understand users, identify who they are and what their needs are and use these to design approaches or services to meet these needs.

Read more and apply here.

Applications close on 18 November. Interviews are likely to take place on 9 December.