Graphic Designer
Description
Our three hospital charities fundraise so that Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust can go above and beyond for their patients. The Graphic Designer is responsible for delivering impactful graphic design across digital, audiovisual, and print channels. This role will be instrumental in establishing, strengthening and evolving our brand presence, ensuring a consistent, engaging, and high\-quality visual identity across all customer and stakeholder touchpoints.
Reporting to the Senior Brand and Content Manager, the Graphic Designer will support the management, development, and execution of the organisation's visual brand strategy. The role combines hands\-on design expertise with the ability to contribute creative ideas, delivering compelling visual communications that support business objectives and enhance brand recognition.### Key Responsibilities
Brand Development and Management* Support the Senior Brand and Content Manager in building, maintaining, and evolving the organisation's brand identity.
- Apply brand guidelines consistently across all creative assets, ensuring high\-quality, on\-brand communications for internal and external audiences.
- Champion best practice in visual storytelling and brand design throughout the organisation. • Contribute to the ongoing development of brand assets, templates, and design standards.
- Produce creative concepts from brief through to final delivery, ensuring work is aligned with strategic objectives.
- Develop visual assets for video, animation, motion graphics, and multimedia content.
- Prepares artwork and files to the required technical specifications.
- Collaborate with content creators and marketing teams to deliver engaging audiovisual campaigns.
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring deadlines and quality standards are met. Creative management
- Act as the organisation's design specialist, providing expert advice on creative approaches, design trends, and emerging technologies.
- Identify opportunities to improve creative processes, efficiencies, and design output.
Work environment
The post holder should expect to:* Work in a hot desk environment, at least two days of meaningful time a week in the Foundation’s office, plus time within hospital sites as required
- Will occasionally be required to attend events in the evening and at weekends.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Skills, abilities, and attributes:* Excellent people skills with an ability to build strong working relationships across teams
- Committed to constant learning and improving, including openness to feedback
- Willingness to engage in problem\-solving in other areas
- Committed to embedding diversity, equity and inclusion
- Ability to prioritise, balance deadlines and to work independently
- Confidence to identify and move on when the work is ‘good enough’
- Resilience to work independently and deliver in uncertain environments
- Ability to use data to make recommendations that deliver results
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud, including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, and Premiere Pro.
- Expert knowledge of graphic design principles, including typography, layout, colour theory, visual hierarchy, and accessibility standards.
- Comprehensive knowledge of print production processes, specifications, materials, and supplier management.
- Strong understanding of digital design best practices, including mobile\-first layout principles, conversion\-focused landing page UI, accessible email design asset limits, and ad platform creative constraints
- Experience managing projects from concept to delivery.
- Ability to work independently while managing multiple priorities.
- Demonstrable experience of working with a wide range of external and internal stakeholders, including people from a wide range of backgrounds.
- Experience of managing basic budgets.
Benefits
- Contributory Pension
- Annual health and wellbeing personal allowance
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and parental leave pay accessible without length of service requirements.
- Health and wellbeing programme that offers optional free yearly health check\-ups.
- Support for healthy eating via fruit bowls and onsite lunch facilities.
- Agile working, flexible hours, and supportive IT kit.
- Shower facilities and bike lock area.
- Generous annual leave (27 days \+ bank holidays)
- Subsidies for glasses
- Employee Assistance Programme
At Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation, our mission is clear – to build the foundations of a healthier society.
As part of our team, including Impact on Urban Health and three NHS charity brands, you will work alongside talented people from a mix of personal and professional backgrounds. We are a Living Wage employer and support flexible working, part\-time roles and job shares. Though our ambitions are serious, this is a friendly place to work with lots of opportunities to meet and socialise with colleagues. We believe there is immense power in diversity and aim to recruit and nurture talent who think and act differently.
There is more information about working with us on our website, where you can read about:* how we approach recruitment
- our team, culture and values
- the benefits of working with us and
- our approach to diversity, equity \& inclusion; health \& wellbeing; and learning \& development.
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