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Grade B: £39,784 (National Framework) or £45,456 (London Framework – if you are London office based or homebased and live within the boundary of the M25) – There is also an additional homeworking allowance of £581 per annum for those working from home.
Contracted Hours: Full time 37 hours per week. We may also consider compressed hours.
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Home-based with regular travel to CQC offices.
Closing Date: Sunday 15 June 2025 at 11.59pm
This role is NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected, and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.
Are you committed to helping us regulate health and social care within England?
When thinking about what drives you every day in your job, what keeps you motivated and passionate about your work what comes to mind? For 3000+ people at the CQC we end each day knowing that we have made a difference to the lives of those most in need in our communities. We make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and encourage care services to improve. We are looking for people who are caring, demonstrate integrity and work well as part of a team to join with us and share in this sense of achievement. If you would like to help us make a positive impact to health and social care within England, then read on.
Why this could be a great role for you….
As a Service Designer within our Product & Service Design function in CQC you will work within multidisciplinary teams in designing the end-to-end journey of services to help users complete their goal and allow CQC to deliver its policy intent.
You will be a specialist in leading design across multiple agile digital delivery teams, working closely with senior stakeholders across the programme to ensure the effective delivery of services.
You will be part of our design community, sharing your skills, knowledge and experience with others across CQC.
What We Can Offer You...
Your health and wellbeing are important to us and are supported through our benefits scheme:
* 27 days of leave per year, rising to 32.5 days with length of service, plus bank holidays (usually 8 days per year).
* Opportunities and support for in house and external training and development.
* Free, unlimited access to Headspace meditation app.
* Sports and gym discounts.
* Free employee assistance service 24 hours a day.
* NHS pension scheme, with around a 14% employer contribution.
* Discounts to high street stores, supermarkets, restaurants and more.
* Eligibility to apply for a Blue Light Card, which cost £4.99 and are valid for 2 years.
* Fleet home electronics and car leasing salary sacrifice scheme.
* Cycle to work scheme up to the value of £5,000.
* Internal reward scheme where you could win a voucher or two!
We want to make working for CQC a great experience for everyone, and to role model a diverse and representative culture. To support an inclusive environment where colleagues feel empowered to bring their whole self to work, we support a variety of staff networks, including the Race Equality Network, LGBT+ Equality Network, Carers Equality Network, Disability Equality Network and Gender Equality network.
What You Will Bring…
* Be educated to degree or equivalent qualification in Service design or can demonstrate appropriate work-based experience.
* You will have significant experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams across the whole product development lifecycle and collaborating with key roles such as user researchers, business analysts, product managers, content designers, etc.
* You will work with others to understand user needs and business requirements, you will use your design skills and experience to align these to the product design, and use prototyping to test early designs.
* You will have experience working in a regulatory or similar environment and understand the complexities that this brings, and how your service designs need to translate a complex situation into a simple user journey.
* Experience of using Service design tools and methodology.
To access the full Job Description, please click the link below:
Service Designer - JD.docx
For an informal discussion or further information on the role, please contact William Hesketh, Senior Product Manager at William.Hesketh@CQC.org.uk .
Individual adjustments...
We are committed to being open and transparent around our processes and we endeavour to offer every candidate the opportunity to perform at their best throughout the recruitment process. We seek to support candidates to identify potential challenges and work with them to identify and facilitate reasonable adjustments as appropriate. Should you require assistance and/or would like to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact a member of the team via email: recruitment@cqc.org.uk
CQC is committed to promoting a fair and inclusive workplace where all our people can flourish and reach their full potential. We know diverse teams allow for a more creative and productive environment and therefore encourage applications from everyone regardless of: age, gender/sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability, ethnicity or sexual orientation.
Candidates must ensure that all information provided in their application is detailed in their own words and is factually accurate. Any examples provided must be taken from personal experience. CQC abides by honesty and integrity as part of its core values, if evidence of plagiarism or generating answers from other sources is found, applications may be withdrawn.
Our Values
Excellence – Meeting our challenge to be a high-performing organisation
Caring – Treating everyone with dignity and respect
Integrity – Demonstrating our passion for ‘doing the right thing’
Teamwork – Enabling us to be the best we can
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology
* Industries
Hospitals and Health Care
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