Ux/Ui Designer (Digital Health Products)

Job description

Job summary

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Are you looking to design digital products that make health and healthcare better? 

The Helix Centre is looking to recruit UX/UI Designer to work on Digital Health Products within our research portfolio, which includes Dementia, End of Life Care, Preventative Health, and emerging themes. 

At Helix, we design inclusive products and services that tackle health challenges by putting people and their needs at the centre of what we do. We operate out of St Mary’s Hospital, and are part of the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London. Founded by Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art, we are a multi-disciplinary team of designers, developers, clinicians and academics on a mission to improve health and healthcare for all. 

With our unique location in a hospital and university, this role offers the opportunity to collaborate closely with patients, staff, communities and colleagues from other disciplines in the design of inclusive and accessible Digital Health Products.

If you’re passionate about using great design to solve complex health and wellbeing problems, want to work in an agile, multi-disciplinary digital product team creating a range of solutions, and most importantly, want do work that makes a lasting difference to people’s lives, then this could be the job for you.

For more information:

https://helixcentre.com/

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/global-health-innovation/

Duties and responsibilities

In this role you will:

• Formulate user research plans and conduct research with relevant stakeholders, (e.g. patients, healthcare professionals, academic experts and members of the public)
• Articulate research findings and draw insights that can inform subsequent stages in the project for all team members, to ensure that the identified user needs can be met
• Prepare concepts and designs in collaboration with users and other stakeholders
• Deliver user testing of a variety of user interfaces or physical prototypes with representative users
• Design, test and specify improvements to software products for Software Developers to implement, and work within the Product team using modern product development methods to build, test and iterate
• Plan and manage all phases of a design project and proactively anticipate and manage stakeholder needs
• Participate in multi-disciplinary team meetings to discuss and agree product development strategies and prioritise outstanding tasks
• Participate in education activity with students on selected courses at Imperial (such as our Health and Design Masters course)

Essential requirements

This role would be suited to a Designer with experience of designing intuitive digital user experiences and user interactions, ideally in the Digital Health or care technology space, and:

• Undergraduate degree (or equivalent) relevant to the position, e.g. interaction design, product engineering, service design, communication design
• Experience designing and developing prototypes of products or services, ideally in healthcare or social care
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment as part of a small, creative and motivated team
• Design skills including user research, ideation, prototyping, user testing and concept presentation
• Use of Adobe Suite (or equivalent) and Sketch (or equivalent) to an expert level
• Excellent visual presentation skills, written and verbal communication
• Good understanding of relevant standards, regulations and procedures is a plus (e.g. accessibility standards, device regulation, ethics, data protection, etc)

Further information

This is a full-time role (35h/w) and part-time with a minimum of 0.6 full-time equivalent may be considered. The appointment is for a fixed term of 12 months. You will be based at St. Mary’s Campus (Paddington, London), and will have access to the benefits offered by Imperial College.

Please apply with a PDF or web-based portfolio, CV and cover letter, and complete the online application form.

Should you require further details on the role please contact: Gianpaolo Fusari - [email protected].

The College is currently trialling a Work Location Framework until early 2023. Hybrid working may be considered for this role and the role holder may be expected to work 60% or more of their time onsite, with 40% the minimum time spent onsite. The opportunity for hybrid working will be discussed at interview

Documents

• Job Description Helix UX UI Designer Digital Health Products.pdf

About Imperial College London

Imperial College London is the UK’s only university focussed entirely on science, engineering, medicine and business and we are consistently rated in the top 10 universities in the world.

You will find our main London campus in South Kensington, with our hospital campuses located nearby in West and North London. We also have Silwood Park in Berkshire and state-of-the-art facilities in development at our major new campus in White City.

We work in a multidisciplinary and diverse community for education, research, translation and commercialisation, harnessing science and innovation to tackle the big global challenges our complex world faces.

It’s our mission to achieve enduring excellence in all that we do for the benefit of society – and we are looking for the most talented people to help us get there.

Additional information

Please note that job descriptions cannot be exhaustive, and the post-holder may be required to undertake other duties, which are broadly in line with the above key responsibilities.

Imperial College is committed to equality of opportunity and to eliminating discrimination. All employees are expected to follow the Imperial Values & Behaviours framework. Our values are: 

• Respect              
• Collaboration
• Excellence          
• Integrity
• Innovation

In addition to the above, employees are required to observe and comply with all College policies and regulations.

We are committed to equality of opportunity, to eliminating discrimination and to creating an inclusive working environment for all. We therefore encourage candidates to apply irrespective of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion and belief, gender reassignment, sex, or sexual orientation. We are an Athena SWAN Silver Award winner, a Disability Confident Leader and a Stonewall Diversity Champion.

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