Graphic Designer The Vale of Glamorgan
Job description
Digital Health and Care Wales is an ambitious organisation created by Welsh Government to lead on the digital transformation of health and care, by designing and creating digital technologies to help support NHS Wales staff who deliver care and improve the patient experience
We are looking to appoint a Graphic Designer to join our department to design and support many of the national software applications within DHCW.
What you’ll be doing
The post will entail print and web design to effectively communicate information about our services, objectives, and applications to various audiences such as the public, patients, stakeholders, and NHS staff.
This will include designing and creating a range of media from presentations, promotional information such as web site banners, newsletters, brochures, infographics, images for social media, logos, icons, style guides, leaflets to corporate templates, website layouts, Microsoft Teams backgrounds, video editing and animations.
Therefore, this role will require a combination of graphic design skills and technical knowledge of how web pages are created, being responsible for the layout, visual appearance, and usability of the new websites
Strong technical and interpersonal skills are required, with the experience to communicate and express their ideas clearly with individuals at varying levels of technical awareness. Interpret customers graphic and style requirements ensuring that they meet the requirements of users as outlined in their specification.
You will also be expected to provide guidance to clients, best practice, troubleshooting issues or queries.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, and creative individual, who will support our Graphic Design Team. To provide you with the opportunities to ask for help and guidance but expect you to have the enthusiasm, drive, and aptitude to also develop your skills independently and become an effective team member.
The candidate must have: A degree in Graphic Design
Experience in some of the following areas is considered essential:
- Use of Adobe Creative Cloud products e.g., Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Adobe XD, Lightroom, Acrobat Pro, Animate, Dreamweaver, Premiere Pro, Premiere Rush, After Effects etc.
- Video editing and creating animations
- Technical aspects of web design production
- HTML
- Cascading stylesheet
- Accessibility Guidelines
- Web Standard
- UI and UX design
- Microsoft Teams apps e.g., Sway
Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) is part of the NHS Wales family and has an important role in changing the way health and care services are delivered through technology and data. The organisation supports frontline staff with modern systems and access to important information about their patients, while empowering the people of Wales to manage their own health through digital NHS Wales services.
Working for DHCW offers lots of employee benefits, including flexible working, a competitive salary, 28 days of annual leave plus Bank Holidays and opportunities for career development. We are committed to recognising and celebrating our staff as the most valuable part of our organisation.
Join our game changing, life-saving team and start making a real difference to health and care services in Wales.
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
