Creative Digital Designer

NHS Blood and Transplant; England; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking a Creative Digital Designer to join their Brand Communications team. This hybrid role involves creating digital content that promotes life-saving donations, while ensuring brand identity and meeting the needs of various stakeholders. The successful candidate will have experience with various design tools and a degree in digital design or a related field. This position offers competitive salary and benefits, including 27 days of annual leave.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible working opportunities

Annual leave increase with tenure

NHS pension scheme

Continuous learning and development

Qualifications

• Experience designing digital assets from concept to artwork.
• Knowledge of web accessibility rules and guidelines.
• Proven ability to manage brand digital assets.

Responsibilities

• Create compelling digital content for promotions.
• Maintain brand identity and reputation across all media.
• Produce regular social media assets to convey key messages.

Skills

Adobe Creative Suite

Web and mobile application design

Social media design

Animation for campaigns

Responsive design

Education

Degree in digital design or communications

Tools

Adobe Photoshop

Final Cut Pro

After Effects

Illustrator

InDesign

Job description

Overview

This vacancy is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship. Please do not apply unless you have another means of establishing a right to work, or you are already employed by the NHS and would transfer to the pay point above the base of a Band 6.

This is a hybrid role which means you will perform your duties across more than one location, currently predominantly home working. You will be required to attend events or travel to other bases or locations as agreed and deemed necessary. You will be assigned a contractual base location at one of NHSBT’s main centres closest to your home address. The specific base location will be confirmed after the final interview and mutually agreed upon with the line manager.

Please provide a link to your online portfolio and/or personal website in the supporting information section of your application.

Job Summary

We\'re seeking a talented Creative Digital Designer to join our dynamic Brand Communications team at NHS Blood & Transplant. This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference by creating compelling digital content that promotes life-saving donations and supports our mission to save and improve lives.

Working closely with our Brand & Marketing departments, you\'ll be responsible for developing, delivering and evaluating online marketing assets across all media channels whilst maintaining our brand identity and reputation.

Main duties

• Acting as brand digital development specialist for the organisation, ensuring we maintain brand identity and reputation. This includes the tone of voice as well as the visual identity of the organisation.
• Offering advice to a number of business areas across NHS Blood & Transplant and work collaboratively with colleagues in those business areas and the communications directorate to promote public awareness of and support for all forms of donations and also help with delivering our strategic objectives.
• Confident to challenge colleagues where content or design do not meet NHS identity or digital guidelines and ensure that the NHS Blood & Transplant brand is always maintained
• Creative and developing effective design concepts for digital and off-line services to meet customers’ requirements to promote all forms of altruistic donation within NHS Blood and Transplant, working to tight deadlines.
• Producing regular social media assets (for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, new/emerging channels/platforms to present facts/stats/key messages in a creative and eye-catching way.
• Ensuring all designs created internally and externally are compliant with NHS Blood & Transplant brand identity and digital brand guidelines and meet web standards.
• Working alongside the entire digital spectrum – social media, blogs and more – to create world-class design and communications.
• Supporting creative art working and brand designs with the senior designer, including creating concepts, layouts for print ready artwork which will reflect onto social media.
• Producing animations, gifs, graphics and video end frames for campaigns.

You will be required to travel and spend time away from base, which will involve working irregular hours and overnight stays when required, with prior notice.

About You

Experience and Knowledge

• Experience of working with web and mobile application design packages
• Experience of designing digital assets from concept to artwork
• Experience of delivering digital design and production requirements, including specialist design in social media creatives
• Experience of designing off-line assets from concept to artwork
• Experience of developing and consistently applying brand visual identity and digital guidelines and managing brand digital assets in a large organisation
• Knowledge and experience of working with relevant legislation (Data Protection etc.)
• Experience of working with social media channels and responsive design across channels
• Knowledge of web accessibility rules and guidelines
• Proficiency with industry standard software such as Adobe Creative Suite, with advanced skills in Adobe Photoshop and After Effects
• Experience of creating a range of animation for campaigns. Good knowledge of Final Cut Pro, After Effects, Premier, Illustrator, and Indesign (all on PC)
• A good basic understanding of typography and design layouts
• Experience of working with Information Technology using Microsoft Office packages (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)

Qualifications And Training

• Degree in digital design or communications related subject OR significant demonstrable experience in a relevant field to degree level
• Demonstrates commitment to own continued professional development (CPD) or digital engagement such as blogging

About Us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you’ll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary - donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need.

Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work – and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we\'ll save and improve more lives than ever.

You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

What We Offer

• Band 6: £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
• NHSBT promotes flexible working opportunities where the role will allow.
• 27 days annual leave (pro rata for part-time) plus Bank Holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years’ service and to 33 days after 10 years.
• NHS pension scheme. The NHS Pension Scheme is a defined benefit scheme (not dependent on investment returns) Further details and outline of benefits can be found at: www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/pensions
• We’ve fostered a culture of continuous learning where colleagues are well-led, engaged, and encouraged to grow. We support you in reaching your full potential, both in your current role and future career. Our Thrive program embodies our commitment to learning and development, offering a wide range of activities to support your personal and professional growth. It’s open to everyone at NHSBT, ensuring you have the resources to succeed and shine in your role.

Please view the attached recruitment profile which is a summary of the detailed Job Description and Person Specification for the full personal attributes we require for the role. You will need to demonstrate these throughout the recruitment process.

This vacancy will close at 23:59 on 1st October 2025. NHSBT reserves the right to close the job early if a high volume of applications is received. Interteams are anticipated to be held w/c 20th October 2025 – subject to confirmation. For informal enquiries please contact Philip Collins, Senior Brand and Studio Manager on [e-mail]