Job summary
- Main area
- Designer
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday)
- Job ref
- 846-8198260-UJ
- Employer
- Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Home
- Town
- Home
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/09/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Designer
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent & Medway NHS Trusts, the Kent & Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB) & Medway Community Healthcare. Nursing vacancies are also open to Student Nurses & Newly Qualified Nurses.
You will be a Senior Design specialist in the Communications and Engagement Team, leading the creation of high-quality visual, digital and
The trust delivers a wide range of internal and external communications activity, including digital communications, campaigns, publications,
Alongside your trust responsibilities, you will also work closely with the Head of Digital Communications to support the development and delivery
You will manage multiple design and creative projects simultaneously, ensuring work is delivered to agreed standards, timescales and priorities.
Main duties of the job
Your daily activities will be varied and may include:
• leading the design and production of corporate publications, reports, presentations, campaign materials and information resources
• developing creative concepts and visual identities for campaigns, projects and organisational priorities
• producing digital content for websites, intranets, social media, email communications and online platforms
• creating and editing video content, animations and multimedia resources
• providing specialist advice on branding, accessibility, user experience and visual communication
• supporting photography, filming and live streaming activity where appropriate
• coordinating design projects and requests that form part of the Kent NHS design programme
• supporting oversight of project pipelines, workload management and capacity planning across the virtual design network
• developing collaborative relationships with communications and design colleagues across NHS organisations in Kent
• managing relationships with external suppliers, printers, agencies and production partners
• evaluating the effectiveness of design and campaign activity and identifying opportunities for improvement
• maintaining and promoting NHS and organisational brand standards across all communications materials.
Working for our organisation
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is due to integrate with Medway Community Healthcare on 1 October 2026. Following integration and to align our community services to the new Neighbourhood Model of care delivery, there will be a period of consultation which may result in changes affecting some services, teams or roles. Depending on the area you are applying to work in, this could include potential changes to your role, work base, reporting arrangements, or terms and conditions of employment. Any changes would be subject to consultation and managed sensitively and in line with relevant employment processes. Please do contact the recruiting manager if you have any concerns about this so they can answer any questions you might have.
Rated ‘Outstanding’ by CQC, we deliver high-quality care that improves the health of our communities. We are looking for people who share our values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Responsive and Excellent.
We are proud to be an inclusive, welcoming organisation and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We use protected characteristic information for monitoring only and it is not seen by recruiting managers, except where applicants choose to be considered under our disability guaranteed interview scheme.
We know life outside work matters. As a flexible working-friendly organisation, we welcome conversations about arrangements that help you thrive while supporting excellent care for our patients.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As a community Trust, many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. Where driving is a requirement of the role, you will be asked to confirm that you hold a full UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country (not exchanged from a non-EU country) to proceed with your application. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment. If you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via [email protected], quoting the vacancy reference number, so we can support you further.
The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.
Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.
We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.
At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.
Find out more about the community difference here.
Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity.
Person specification
Qualifications, training and experience
Essential criteria
- A degree-level qualification in graphic design, digital design, visual communications or a related discipline, or have equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- NHS or public sector communications experience
Qualifications, training and experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience in delivering complex creative and design projects across print, digital, social media and multimedia channels, using industry-standard design software including Adobe Creative Cloud.
Desirable criteria
- Recognised project management training or qualifications
Qualifications, training and experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience in managing complex projects and work programmes across multiple teams or organisations, balancing competing priorities and stakeholders, and providing specialist advice to senior colleagues and partners.
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria
- Please provide a portfolio of your recent work, which reflects a range of design techniques. A URL link is preferred.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jo Treharne
- Job title
- Head of Campaigns and Digital
- Email address
- [email protected]
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