Senior Content Designer

Senior Content Designer

Salary: £31,373 (National Framework) or £36,775 (London Framework – if you are London office based or homebased and live within the boundary of the M25) – There is also an additional homeworking allowance of £553 per annum for those working from home. For part time roles – please note this will be pro rata

Hours: Full-time, 37 hours per week (Job-share and compressed hours available)

Contract: 23-month Fixed Term / Secondment

Location: Flexible - CQC Office based, United Kingdom

Closing date: Sunday, 10th November 2024 at 11.59pm

About Us

We’re the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and we work to improve health and adult social care in England.

Through the dedication of our expert team, we monitor health and social care services to provide England with a safe and compassionate care system, recognising when services perform well and encouraging improvements where needed.

One of our main commitments is to become a truly inclusive organisation and to model a diverse and representative culture. To achieve this, we work with a variety of networks, including the Disability Equality Network, Race Equality Network, and LGBT+ Equality Network.

We’re now looking for a Senior Content Designer to join us on a full-time, fixed-term basis.

The Benefits:

• 27 days’ annual leave, rising with service to 32.5 days, plus 8 Bank Holidays
• NHS pension scheme, with around a 14% employer contribution
• Free employee assistance service 24 hours a day
• Discounts to supermarkets, high street stores, electronics, and fleet cars
• Discounted gym vouchers
• Cycle to work scheme
• Internal reward scheme where you could earn yourself a voucher or two!
• Equipment for homeworking

Why this could be a great role for you…

This is a great opportunity for an experienced content designer with a strong research and analytical background to join our forward-thinking organisation.

Here, your skillset will be showcased in a glowing light, with your creativity directly supporting improved health and social care across England, giving your work a real purpose on communities nationwide.

What’s more, you will discover the flexibility of hybrid working, allowing you to balance your professional and personal life seamlessly while contributing to meaningful projects from wherever you work best.

What you will bring…

To be considered as our Senior Content Designer, you’ll need:

• Experience in creating clear, concise, and accurate content for diverse audiences
• A strong understanding of online user engagement and content design
• Comfort using research and analytics to enhance content effectiveness
• The ability to collaborate with subject matter experts to ensure content accuracy
• Familiarity with HTML, online forms, newsletters, or Adobe Creative Suite (advantageous)

What you’ll be doing…

As a Senior Content Designer, you’ll play a crucial role in ensuring our information is accessible, clear, and useful for everyone.

Specifically, you’ll design content tailored for a range of users, from the general public to care providers and stakeholders.

You will also work alongside a friendly, collaborative team of content designers, user researchers, and performance analysts, adopting a user-centred design approach to make complex information easy to understand and quicker to use.

Your role will also include:

• Using data and analytics to continuously improve content delivery and impact
• Partnering with subject matter experts to ensure accuracy and relevancy of information
• Supporting the wider team in applying a consistent content strategy across all communications

Next steps…

If you require any support or assistance with the recruitment process, please get in touch with our team or include a note in your application.

We know diverse teams allow for a more creative and productive environment and therefore encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, gender/sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability, ethnicity, or sexual orientation.

So, if you’d like to join us as a Senior Content Designer, please apply via the button shown.

Other organisations may call this role Content Specialist, Digital Content Designer, UX Content Designer, or Content Editor.