UK Health Security Agency
Interaction Designer
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Interaction Designer
Fixed-term appointment until 31/12/2027
Location: This role is being offered as hybrid working based at any of our Core HQs (London, Leeds, Liverpool or Birmingham)
Salary: SEO grade - £41,983 - £52,113 per annum, pro rata
Are you passionate about creating services that work better for people? We're looking for an Interaction Designer to join UKHSA's User-Centred Design (UCD) team and help design accessible, user-focused services that support the UK's public health mission.
This is a highly collaborative role where you'll work alongside user researchers, service designers, content designers, developers, policy teams and operational stakeholders to understand user needs, solve complex challenges and improve services end-to-end. You'll be part of a supportive multidisciplinary team that values creativity, evidence-based design and knowledge sharing.
What you'll do
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to shape user-centred services and experiences
- Use research insights to identify opportunities and solve complex problems
- Create and test interactive prototypes to bring ideas to life
- Champion accessibility, inclusion and best practice design standards
- Contribute to and learn from UKHSA's growing UCD community
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Person specification
Essential role criteria:
- Experience in interaction design and applying user-centred design methods and practices in complex organisations
- To be able to manage relationships with a variety of internal and external stakeholders to improve services and gain support for standards, design solutions, roadmaps, and ways of working
- Experience in the use of various prototyping tools and methods to deliver interactive prototypes, demonstrating ability to create designs that are accessible without compromising delivery timelines
- To be able to communicate with developer colleagues, leveraging knowledge of front-end languages to ensure designs are developed to standard and remain accessible
- To be able to apply iterative design principles and agile methodologies to your work
- To be able to demonstrate the importance of designing inclusive, equitable, accessible and sustainable services
- To be able to plan design activities, working directly with other professions to ensure effective and timely delivery
- To be able to identify new design patterns and components based on evidence
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Desirable role criteria:
- You may also have experience of:
- Coding using HTML/CSS
- The GOV.UK Prototype Kit and associated hosting technologies
- Government service assessment
For full details, including interview information, please click 'Apply' to view the complete advert on Civil Service Jobs.
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