Designer (Sponsorship Available) At Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

Employer: Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
Job Title: Designer
Location: United Kingdom
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year
Job Type: Full-time
Closing Date: 22 September 2026

Job Summary

You will be a Senior Design specialist in the Communications and Engagement Team, leading the creation of high-quality visual, digital and multimedia content that supports communication, engagement and campaign activity for Kent Community Health NHS FT.

The trust delivers a wide range of internal and external communications activity, including digital communications, campaigns, publications, websites, social media, video content, events and patient information.

Alongside your trust responsibilities, you will also work closely with the Head of Digital Communications to support the development and delivery of a proposed Kent-wide NHS design programme, which will bring together design and communications colleagues from NHS organisations across Kent & Medway to strengthen design capacity, share expertise and support the delivery of high-quality communications and engagement activity.

You will manage multiple design and creative projects simultaneously, ensuring work is delivered to agreed standards, timescales and priorities.

You will work closely with communications colleagues, service leads and system partners to develop creative concepts, advise on design approaches and deliver effective communications solutions.

Main Duties of the Job

Your daily activities will be varied and may include:

• Leading the design and production of corporate publications, reports, presentations, campaign materials and information resources
• Developing creative concepts and visual identities for campaigns, projects and organisational priorities
• Producing digital content for websites, intranets, social media, email communications and online platforms
• Creating and editing video content, animations and multimedia resources
• Providing specialist advice on branding, accessibility, user experience and visual communication
• Supporting photography, filming and live streaming activity where appropriate
• Coordinating design projects and requests that form part of the Kent NHS design programme
• Supporting oversight of project pipelines, workload management and capacity planning across the virtual design network
• Developing collaborative relationships with communications and design colleagues across NHS organisations in Kent
• Managing relationships with external suppliers, printers, agencies and production partners
• Evaluating the effectiveness of design and campaign activity and identifying opportunities for improvement
• Maintaining and promoting NHS and organisational brand standards across all communications materials.

About Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is due to integrate with Medway Community Healthcare on 1 October 2026. Following integration and to align community services to the new Neighbourhood Model of care delivery, there will be a period of consultation which may result in changes affecting some services, teams or roles.

Depending on the area you are applying to work in, this could include potential changes to your role, work base, reporting arrangements, or terms and conditions of employment. Any changes would be subject to consultation and managed sensitively and in line with relevant employment processes.

Please do contact the recruiting manager if you have any concerns about this so they can answer any questions you might have.

Rated ‘Outstanding’ by CQC, Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust delivers high-quality care that improves the health of communities.

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is looking for people who share the values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Responsive and Excellent.

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be an inclusive, welcoming organisation and encourages applications from people of all backgrounds. Protected characteristic information is used for monitoring only and is not seen by recruiting managers, except where applicants choose to be considered under the disability guaranteed interview scheme.

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust knows life outside work matters. As a flexible working-friendly organisation, the Trust welcomes conversations about arrangements that help you thrive while supporting excellent care for patients.

Explore KCHFT career pathways.

Job Description

Job Responsibilities

As a community Trust, many of the roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. Where driving is a requirement of the role, you will be asked to confirm that you hold a full UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country (not exchanged from a non-EU country) to proceed with your application.

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment. If you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via kentchft.recruitment@nhs.net, quoting the vacancy reference number, so Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust can support you further.

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust what you have done that shows you meet this in your application.

If you need an application form in an alternative format please let the recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust strongly encourages colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust will be doing all it can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients served.

Find out more about the community difference here.

Good luck! Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity.

Person Specification

Qualifications, Training and Experience

Essential

• A degree-level qualification in graphic design, digital design, visual communications or a related discipline, or have equivalent experience

Desirable

• NHS or public sector communications experience

Qualifications, Training and Experience

Essential

• Substantial experience in delivering complex creative and design projects across print, digital, social media and multimedia channels, using industry-standard design software including Adobe Creative Cloud.

Desirable

• Recognised project management training or qualifications

Qualifications, Training and Experience

Essential

• Substantial experience in managing complex projects and work programmes across multiple teams or organisations, balancing competing priorities and stakeholders, and providing specialist advice to senior colleagues and partners.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Please provide a portfolio of your recent work, which reflects a range of design techniques. A URL link is preferred.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

How to Apply

If you’re interested in this role, visit the company’s official website for more information — click here to submit your application.