UI/UX Designer

We are seeking a talented and user-centric Senior UI/UX Designer to join our digital team at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. This is a pivotal role in shaping intuitive, accessible, and impactful digital experiences that support both clinical and operational excellence. As a Senior UI/UX Designer, you will work within a collaborative, agile, and cross-functional environment to design solutions across a range of platforms. Your work will be guided by a deep understanding of user needs, and you will play a key role in driving best practices in interface and experience design. You will collaborate closely with stakeholders and the Lead Front End Developer to solve complex design challenges, translating strategic ideas into practical, user-friendly digital solutions. This role offers autonomy and influence, allowing you to uphold high standards of usability and design quality while contributing to the planning and delivery of design work that makes a real difference to patients, staff, and the wider community., Create intuitive, accessible, and impactful digital experiences across multiple platforms, always prioritising user needs and aligning with NHS service standards. Champion UI/UX Best Practices Promote and apply best practices in user interface and experience design, ensuring consistency, usability, and accessibility in all digital products. Collaborate in Agile Teams Work within a supportive, agile, and cross-functional team environment, contributing to sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives. Prototype and Validate Lead the creation of interactive prototypes during the discovery phase to support requirement gathering and user testing. Stakeholder Engagement Collaborate closely with stakeholders and the Lead Front End Developer to solve complex design challenges and align solutions with organisational goals. Support Front-End Development Work alongside developers to translate design prototypes into responsive, accessible, and performant web interfaces, integrating seamlessly with back-end systems. Ensure Standards Compliance Uphold NHS Digital Service Standards and accessibility guidelines in all design and development work. Mentor and Guide Provide support and guidance to developers and junior designers in modern front-end technologies and design principles. Contribute to Strategic Initiatives Play a key role in delivering design work that supports the Trust's Digital Clinical Strategy and broader transformation programmes., + You're a clear communicator who can explain the "why" behind your design decisions. You enjoy collaborating with developers, stakeholders, and product teams to create meaningful digital experiences. Most importantly, you're passionate about making things better for users, for the team, and for the organisation. Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme. We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer. If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2. Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance. Make sure to read the 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust! Certificate of Sponsorship Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

We're looking for a creative and thoughtful Senior UI/UX Designer with a solid foundation in design principles and a passion for crafting great user experiences. You'll bring both practical experience and a good understanding of how design fits into the software development lifecycle, especially within agile, cross-functional teams. You enjoy turning complex problems into elegant, user-friendly solutions, and you're confident collaborating with others to bring those ideas to life. What You'll Bring:

• Significant experience in UI/UX design, backed by a strong portfolio of responsive web projects.

• Proficiency with popular design tools like Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, Photoshop, or Illustrator.

• A solid grasp of layout, typography, colour theory, and visual hierarchy.

• The ability to create key design assets-sitemaps, wireframes, user flows, high-fidelity UI designs, and more.

• Experience working with design systems and a component-based approach to design.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, and the confidence to share your ideas clearly with both technical and non-technical team members. Nice to Have:

• Some familiarity with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript-enough to understand how your designs come to life.

• Experience with prototyping tools and working in an iterative, test-and-learn design process.

• Knowledge of accessibility standards (like WCAG) and how to run or contribute to user research and testing.

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way! What the Northumbria Way means for you:

• Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
• Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
• A range of flexible working opportunities
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
• Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
• Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare. Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It's open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care. We are proud to be one of the country's top performing NHS trusts - rated 'outstanding' overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people's homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services. We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise - a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people's lives, such as education, employment and the economy. If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news. Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.