HM Courts and Tribunals Service

Directorate: Digital Technology Services (DTS)

Pay Band:   Grade 7 

Job Title:    Senior Service Designer 

Location: London / National

Successful applicants will be expected to be office based 3 days per week in any HMCTS Office (subject to business availability).

Term: Permanent

Interview: Video conference via Teams

Important salary details:

New recruits to the Civil Service joining MoJ are expected to join at the band minimum.

Existing Civil Servants applying on promotion, will usually be appointed on the salary minimum of the new pay band, or receive an increase of 10 percent on the current base salary, whichever is higher (This is restricted to the pay maximum of the new band).

GDD:

Government Digital and Data (GDD) Profession Capability Framework and Success Profiles Frameworks. Using GDD we will then determine if you will be paid an additional allowance, on top of your basic salary. This role is within the User Centred Design job family and is a  Service Designer role at Senior Service Designer level. 

Reserve List:

HMCTS run a Reserve List, where candidates who are unsuccessful at interview by only a few points, can be offered other roles, at the same band, for up to 12 months. You will be able to view your status via the application screen. If you have been added to the Reserve List, your status will show either Merit or Reserve list.

Introduction:

These are exciting times at HM Court and Tribunals Service (HMCTS). As an agency of the MoJ, we support the judiciary across England and Wales to deliver justice by running courts and tribunals and processing outcomes, and we are looking for talented people to help us achieve our ambitions. It will be challenging, important and rewarding.

HMCTS Digital and Technology Services (DTS) is a specialist technology directorate which provides support to HMCTS in the use of IT and Digital.

DTS is committed to being a great place to work and part of our offer is brilliant training opportunities and support from expert colleagues. As well as that you’ll find flexible working, an inclusive culture and a place where your opinion is valued.

Please follow the link below for further information about HMCTS. www.gov.uk/government/organisations/hm-courts-and-tribunals-service

Job Description:  

We’re looking for a Senior Service Designer who is passionate about designing digital services that are simple enough for everyone to use. You’ll play a key role in building our capability to design and continuously iterate world-class, user-centred, inclusive services for internal and external users. The Digital Delivery team at HMCTS is redesigning and rebuilding our courts and tribunal services around the needs of our users - ensuring our services are accessible, easy to use, digital (where necessary and appropriate) and well supported for all users. 

Within Digital Delivery, the User-Centred Design team works with HMCTS projects and programmes to support our core design principle of being user-led in everything we do. As a service designer, you’ll work closely with user researchers, analysts and frontline staff to understand pain points for our internal and external users, then design, test and iterate consistent ways to fix these issues.   

Key Responsibilities: 

We are looking for a senior service designer with a track record of: 

• designing systems for use across multiple complex services based on user needs and can identify the simplest of a variety of approaches 

• interpreting the needs of technical and business stakeholders, managing stakeholder expectations and hosting difficult discussions  in the team and with senior stakeholders to influence progress. 

• making decisions characterised by medium levels of risk and complexity and recommending decisions as risk and complexity increase, building consensus between services or independent stakeholders.  

• bringing people together to form a motivated team and help create the right environment for a team to work in, mentoring and developing the team as needed. 

• leading the design and implementation of strategy, directing the evaluation of strategies and policies to ensure business requirements are being met. (Skill level: expert) 

• identifying, communicating and working within constraints, challenging the validity of constraints when appropriate and ensuring standards are being met. 

Essential Skills & Criteria: 

• This role will involve leading on the service design for a jurisdiction, such as family or tribunals, while also delivering service design work in teams depending on the highest priority in the jurisdiction. 

• You’ll be comfortable working autonomously to help key stakeholders such as judges, operational leaders, service managers and programme directors understand the importance and value of a user-centred approach to designing court and tribunals services.  

• An expert in evidence- and context-based design, you’ll use insights from research to find, test and refine the best solutions to meet user and business needs across whole user journeys. An advocate for a user-centred approach, you’ll give direction on tools, teams and methods needed to solve user problems and play an active role supporting others in our growing community of practice. 

• You’ll coach, mentor, train and develop other designers, supporting the growth and development of the design team and creating the right conditions for supportive communities of practice to grow and thrive. 

• An experienced and credible strategic thinker, you’ll lead the design, communication and implementation of service strategies and approaches. As part of this, you’ll evaluate new and existing services against strategies, frameworks, design systems and policies to ensure that user and business requirements are met (and articulate what happens if they aren’t). 

• You’ll work closely with other designers, researchers, analysts and technical experts to help our users complete their goals quickly and easily; minimising support costs (and other failure demand) as well as improving efficiency and reducing the time needed to process applications.  

 You’ll be expected to: 

• Design services that work for different users across the various channels we offer for court and tribunals service journeys, developing service journey maps, service blueprints and high-level prototypes  

• Work with judges, operational leaders, technical teams and other key stakeholders to facilitate the co-design process; developing a deep understanding of their needs, managing expectations and agreeing service propositions  

• Work as an embedded team member within agile delivery teams, helping manage and visualise outcomes, prioritise work and develop service roadmaps from minimum viable products to full live services  

• Be an active member of HMCTS’ user-centred design community, collaborating with others and using your experience and specialist knowledge to coach and mentor others  

• Support and manage other designers, assuring quality work and behaviours and helping them develop experience through personal development plans and opportunities to rotate between teams  

• Actively participate in user research, helping translate research findings into actionable insight to inform service development 

 Application process:

The following areas of Success Profile Framework will be used to assess and score your application during the sift, and interview.

• Experience - As demonstrated in your application form.

• Technical - As demonstrated at interview. During the interview, you will be assessed against the Government Digital and Data (GDD) Capability Framework.

• Technical Presentation - You will be required to prepare a short presentation. Details will be provided 5 working days before your interview. 

• Behaviours - You will be required to provide evidence of the following key behaviours at G7 Level.

• Working Together 

• Leadership 

• Communicating and Influencing 

• Changing and Improving 

• Making Effective Decisions 

You will be expected to align your answers to the following GDD Capability skills:

• Capability Skill 1 - Leading design

• Capability Skill 2 - Design communication

• Capability Skill 3 - Iterative design

• Capability Skill 4 - Evidence-based design