Description
Contract opportunity: Service Designer - London (2 days a week) - 6 months - INSIDE IR35 - £ per day
Please note: This role is INSIDE IR35 and will require being on site in London 2 days per week
Overview of the post/area of work
As a Service Designer, you will be part of a multidisciplinary team interacting with policy-makers to design and deliver effective user focussed services.
You will work on creating and improving services. This is part of making the shift towards services in the health and care system that are genuinely driven by user needs (and therefore more successful in terms of prevention, adoption; digital uptake and savings realised).
You will have a vision for healthcare and government services and communicate this to developers and non-developers alike. You will ensure a project's overall design meets user needs, whilst conforming to time and budget constraints.
You will thrive using agile methods and enjoy working collaboratively with departments and multidisciplinary teams. Above all, you'll want to make health better, which may sometimes involve challenging the status quo.
Key specialist requirements for the role
- Have a design related degree, or relevant industry experience
- Be able to sketch and prototype on paper and in HTML
- Be able to work quickly in an agile environment
- Be able to explain ideas in a way that other people understand
- Know how to interpret user research
- Understand how form and function work together
- Be able to write for user interfaces
- Explain design decisions and be able to represent a service at a service assessment
- Assess a service and give constructive feedback
- Collaborate on designs with a developer
- Engage the whole multidisciplinary team with the design process, including policy teams and other non-digital specialists
- Proven experience working with data, from gathering and analysis through to design and presentation;
Lawrence Harvey is acting as an Employment Business in regards to this position.