Guy's & St Thomas' Foundation
Graphic Designer
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Graphic Designer
Application Deadline: 2 October 2026
Department: Charities - Trust Engagement
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: London, Hybrid
Reporting To: Charlene D'acres
Compensation: £39,500 / year
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.
Creative Design Delivery
- Create and deliver multi-channel print, audiovisual, and digital assets for websites, email campaigns, and paid media.
- 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.
- Prepare artwork and files to the required technical specifications.
- Collaborate with content creators and marketing teams to deliver engaging audiovisual campaigns.
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Stakeholder Collaboration
- Work with teams to understand requirements and deliver effective creative solutions.
- 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.
Role responsibilities are not exhaustive, and you would be reasonably expected to take on wider tasks that are commensurate with the level of your role.
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.
- 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 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.
Knowledge, experience, and qualifications:
- Demonstrable expertise across digital, print, and audiovisual design.
- 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.
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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
Disclaimer: Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised date. This is to ensure our teams can manage application levels while maintaining a positive candidate experience. Once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications, so please submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
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