Design and Print Assistant
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Secondment
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 09/09/2026
- Closes
- 23/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
The Design and Print Assistant will support the Design and Print Services team at Ipswich Hospital, undertaking design, layout, and updating of various items for the Trust. This role involves managing mailboxes, booking requests, chasing items, ensuring version control, and advising requesters for both design and print services. The assistant will also be responsible for printing, laminating, trimming, binding, and dispatching printed materials, requiring good computer literacy and physical ability to handle heavy items.
Key responsibilities
- Managing Design Services and Print Services generic mailboxes.
- Booking requests into computerised administration systems.
- Providing advice to requesters regarding Design and Print Services activity.
- Printing from digital files, laminating, trimming, binding, drilling, and padding printed items.
- Packing and dispatching completed orders by appropriate methods.
- Lifting and moving heavy boxes of paper, materials, and laden trolleys.
Essential criteria
- Previous administrative/printing role
- Working collaboratively as part of a team
- Advanced IT Systems including - Microsoft Office
- Experience of communicating with a range of people both within and external to the organisation
- Experience of office work
- Experience of printing documents
- Experience of working with photocopiers and or printers
- GCSE grade 5/C or equivalent in English and Maths
- NVQ Level 3 in administration or equivalent
- Confidentiality and Data Protection
- Computer literate
- Previous knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Experience of data entry and retrieval
Desirable criteria
- NHS experience
- Experience within relevant work area
- Print finishing experience including: encapsulation, trimming and drilling (bulk hole punching)
- NHS Knowledge of relevant work area
- Understanding of printing process (including digital and offset)
- Experience of Adobe products (InDesign and Acrobat in particular)
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £25,760 – £27,476 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Design and Print Assistant
The closing date is 23 September 2026
Job summary
The Design and Print Services team undertakes the design, layout and updating of various items for ESNEFT (such as posters, information cards, leaflets, banners, forms etc) many of which are then printed by the in-house print team.
The department, which is located at Ipswich Hospital, is looking for a genuinely fast learner who can work calmly and efficiently, follow processes accurately, has excellent people skills, good time management skills, and can re-prioritise their workload as task priorities change throughout a busy working day.
The successful applicant will need to be methodical, careful, a good communicator, extremely well organised, and be able to retain information/instructions and have a proactive approach to administrative and technical processes.
Full training will be given but good computer literacy is a must. A basic knowledge of photocopying, printing files and spreadsheet entry would be an advantage, as would good manual dexterity.
Some of the tasks can be very physical so an ability to move and handle heavy boxes of printing/laden trollies is necessary.
The typical working week will be working in Print Services on Thursdays and Fridays, and Design/Print Services for one other agreed weekday.
Main duties of the job
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