Designer / Creative Artworker

Location: The Spine, Liverpool
Salary: Grade 4: £25,585 per annum
Contract type: 12-month FTC (maternity cover)

Working hours: Full time (35 hours a week), but open to requests to work part time. Standard working hours between 9 – 5, Monday to Friday. Hybrid working, with a minimum of 2 days a week in the office.

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is a patient-centred, clinically led organisation with a core mission to improve patient care and reduce illness. As the leading body for physicians (hospital doctors), with 40,000 members in the UK and internationally, we aim to lead debate and influence the way in which healthcare is designed and delivered, promoting good health and leading the prevention of ill health.

Purpose of the role

We are looking to appoint an experienced middleweight designer/artworker to join the Corporate Communications and Publishing (CC&P) team for 12 months. This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive and organised individual to provide a creative and effective design/artworking service to the RCP, delivered to a high standard and on time.

This is a hybrid working role with a minimum of 2 days per week in The Spine, Liverpool. You will be reporting to and working closely with the brand and design services manager, who is based in our London office. Together, you will provide a design service to teams across the RCP. You will act as our local brand champion in Liverpool, promoting best design practices and ensuring that colleagues follow our RCP brand guidelines. As the CC&P team is based over two sites, there will be occasions for the successful applicant to travel to London due to work demands or team events.

Responsibilities will include:

About you:

• professional or vocational qualification in graphic design
• minimum 3 years’ experience as a designer/artworker, either with an agency or as part of an in-house team
• an excellent portfolio consisting of a variety of creative digital and print design solutions
• an experienced Mac user with strong skills in Adobe Creative Suite
• an excellent eye for detail and a great understanding of typography, layout, colour, and overall composition
• experience in creating infographics and data visualisation
• a proven ability to realise multiple design projects in a fast-paced environment
• can work as part of a team but also independently, taking ownership of projects and seeing them through to conclusion to a high standard within budget and on time
• a positive ‘can-do’ attitude with a proactive problem-solving approach
• excellent interpersonal skills and communication with colleagues and external partners at all levels of seniority.

For more information about the role, please view the job description.

Benefits include:

Closing date: 3 January 2023
Interview date: 17 January 2023

The RCP positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief, marital status or pregnancy and maternity.

The RCP is all about our people – our members, our staff, our volunteers and leaders. We educate, influence and collaborate to improve health and healthcare for everyone and know we can only do this by being inclusive, encouraging and celebrating diverse perspectives. That’s why welcoming and having people who represent the 21st-century medical workforce and the diverse population of patients we serve is so important to us.