Senior Service Designer

Job Advert Skip to main content Cookies on NHS Jobs We've put some small files called cookies on your device to help us make improvements to our site. To improve our site we'd also like to use cookies which will send information to Google Analytics. You can read more about our cookies before you choose. Accept analytics cookies Do not accept analytics cookies Jobs Menu Sign in Create an account English Cymraeg Menu Close menu Search Sign in Create an account Display in Welsh (Cymraeg) Search Sign in Create an account Display in Welsh (Cymraeg) BETA Your feedback will help us to improve this service. NHS Blood and Transplant Senior Service Designer The closing date is 11 November 2026 Apply for this job Job summary At NHS Blood & Transplant (NHSBT), we provide a service that is unique, we help our donors do something extraordinary to save or enhance a life in need. You too can join us and play your part in our life-saving organisation. Join our dedicated team in NHSBT organ donation and transplantation (ODT). You'll be part of a programme team at the forefront of organ transplantation transformation, ultimately saving and improving lives. The establishment of a national Assessment and Recovery Centre (ARC) service will extend equitable access to life-saving products and treatments to everyone that needs them, helping to bridge the gap between shortage of organs available and demand. As a service designer at NHSBT, you directly impact how we understand and design for the needs of our donors, families, the patients we serve, and our people, who deliver and operate services. This is critical to our mission to save and improve lives. Main duties of the job As a Senior Service Designer, you will work as part of a multidisciplinary agile team to deliver services for donors at NHSBT. You will design the end-to-end journey which helps the user to complete their goal. Putting users' needs at the heart of your work, you will make people's interactions with NHBST as simple and quick as possible. In this role, your work may involve the creation of, or change to, transactions, products and content across both digital and offline channels provided by NHSBT. You will be a confident and competent designer who is able to develop designs based on evidence of user needs and organisational outcomes. Your role responsibilities will also include: Lead the creation and iteration of design artefacts prototypes with key service users and stakeholders. Develop service proposition(s) and service maps to align the delivery team Champion the use and value of human centred design tools and techniques throughout the organisation (including but not limited to user research, service mapping, ideation, co-design, prototyping and storyboarding) Responsible for designing, leading and facilitating co-design workshops with wide range of stakeholders including end users including potential or current donors, patients and colleagues, Responsible for executing the service vision, reimagining the service experience and implementing the service design and development of it as part of a multi-disciplinary team (designers, developers, testers, analysts). About us It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you'll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need. Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too.Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Qua