Job summary
You will be an exceptional team player, who is capable of working with multiple stakeholders across the business to translate and help realise their business goals.
But most importantly, you are a curious individual who has strong empathy with users, who loves the challenge of making the complex simple and beautiful, to delight our users.
Through defining the interactivity and user experience, you will be proposing solutions that balance user needs with business goals and technical capabilities
Contract type: Permanent
The last few years have undoubtedly changed the way we view the world we live in, and as a result, here at The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) we are going through an exciting period of change and rapid growth. There could not be a better time to join us! As an organisation we all collaborate to achieve the same goal through empowering our workforce to do great things. We understand the importance of creating a respectful, supportive and transparent environment for all our employees which is why your health and wellbeing is a top priority for us!
Main duties of the job
The UX Design role sits within the Digital Service design function and acts as a key liaison point with the other team members to ensure the best design solutions are achieved within the constraints of a project throughout the service development lifecycle.
An ideal candidate will have a full range of UX experience, including:
- Prototyping
- Conducting user tests
- Studying detail analytics
- Layout UI Design
- Facilitation (design critiques, show and tells)
You will be an exceptional team player, who is capable of working with multiple stakeholders across the business to translate and help realise their business goals.
- Work as part of a multi-disciplined team to design user focussed and successful services
- Deliver designs that meet web standards, ensuring that key elements are built in from the outset
- Contributing to the development and continual enhancement of products
- Partnering with colleagues to facilitate a consistent user experience.
- Building relationships and work effectively with external providers, for example user testing and user experience professionals.
- Disseminating expertise of how design decisions impact accessibility both internally and externally.
- Communicating credibly with a wide range of digital delivery disciplines and talent both internally and externally.
About us
The Digital, Information and Technology (DIT) directorate is a 70 strong team of digital, information and technology professionals. Our digital teams adopt a user-centric agile methodology and work in multi-disciplinary teams. Together with analytics and insight we develop and maintain NICE's suite of digital and technology services. We are playing a key role in the implementation of NICE's digital transformation programme, and also keeping our critical live services running well.
The teams in DIT design, develop and maintain NICE's suite of externally facing digital services including the NICE's website, Clinical Knowledge Summaries, BNF which together attract more than 2 million users a month.
The directorate is also responsible for NICE's internal guidance production systems including content management, authoring, and publishing systems, with a view to generate internal efficiencies and to ensure NICE takes advantage of digital innovations arising across the health and care landscape, such as machine learning and data science. As such DIT has a key role to play in keeping NICE's guidance relevant, high-quality, up-to-date, and accessible.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Here at NICE we are passionate and proud of the work we do and the impact we make.
We can offer you a great place to work with good benefits, flexible working, and a supportive, friendly, and inclusive environment.
Benefits:
- We offer a range of benefits including the NHS pension scheme and staff discounts
- We provide a thorough induction programme
- Personal development is supported through extensive training and development opportunities, protected learning and development time.
- We promote flexible working to help staff achieve a healthy work life balance
- We value equality and diversity and welcome applicants from all sections of the community
- We will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria in line with the NHS Guaranteed Interview Scheme
If you feel this is the type of environment, you will enjoy working in then please feel free to contact us for more information or apply now.
For an informal discussion about the role please contact John Bailey, Head product design, john.bailey@nice.org.uk
To be considered for this role, you should be able to particularly demonstrate the person specification criteria in the job advert in your application. However, applicants should be able to demonstrateall essential criteriathrough the entirety of the recruitment process to be considered for the job.
Please see job description attached for full list of responsibilities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Here at NICE we are passionate and proud of the work we do and the impact we make.
We can offer you a great place to work with good benefits, flexible working, and a supportive, friendly, and inclusive environment.
Benefits:
- We offer a range of benefits including the NHS pension scheme and staff discounts
- We provide a thorough induction programme
- Personal development is supported through extensive training and development opportunities, protected learning and development time.
- We promote flexible working to help staff achieve a healthy work life balance
- We value equality and diversity and welcome applicants from all sections of the community
- We will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria in line with the NHS Guaranteed Interview Scheme
If you feel this is the type of environment, you will enjoy working in then please feel free to contact us for more information or apply now.
For an informal discussion about the role please contact John Bailey, Head product design, john.bailey@nice.org.uk
To be considered for this role, you should be able to particularly demonstrate the person specification criteria in the job advert in your application. However, applicants should be able to demonstrateall essential criteriathrough the entirety of the recruitment process to be considered for the job.
Please see job description attached for full list of responsibilities.
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- Bachelor's Degree relevant to the role- i.e. in web technology, Information Technology, Information Design / Architecture, HCI, UCD, Graphic Design or equivalent level of knowledge acquired through experience and further training/development
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of web design working in multi-disciplinary teams
- Experience working in an online consumer or business -facing service / organisation developing new functionality and services
Skills/Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to create prototypes of various levels of fidelity using industry standard tools.
- Ability to use Adobe suite of design products and familiarity with industry standard prototyping tools such as Figma, XD, Axure
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- Bachelor's Degree relevant to the role- i.e. in web technology, Information Technology, Information Design / Architecture, HCI, UCD, Graphic Design or equivalent level of knowledge acquired through experience and further training/development
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of web design working in multi-disciplinary teams
- Experience working in an online consumer or business -facing service / organisation developing new functionality and services
Skills/Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to create prototypes of various levels of fidelity using industry standard tools.
- Ability to use Adobe suite of design products and familiarity with industry standard prototyping tools such as Figma, XD, Axure
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
