Senior Content Designer

£45,240 - £52,500

£45,240 - £50,530 (National) / £47,040 - £52,500 + £3,150 RRA (London)

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Alongside your salary of £45,240, Crown Prosecution Service contributes £13,106 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

We also offer the following range of benefits:

• Civil Service contributory pension of up to 28.9%
• 25 days' leave, increasing to 30 days after 5 years
• £350 each year to spend on personal development
• lawyer training programme for all new prosecutors
• an extra privilege day to mark the King's birthday
• competitive maternity, paternity and parental leave
• flexible working including flexitime, and a family friendly approach to work
• Cycle2Work scheme, employee savings.

Diversity at the Crown Prosecution Service is about inclusion, embracing differences and ensuring our workforce truly reflects the communities we serve. We want you to feel that you belong and can thrive, whatever your background, identity or culture. As a Disability Confident employer, we're happy to support requests for reasonable adjustments and improve your recruitment experience. If you'd like any reasonable adjustments made to our recruitment process, let us know within your application or contact dimitra.siakavara@cps.gov.uk

Join the Crown Prosecution Service and find your purpose.

The Crown Prosecution Service is passionate about ensuring that we're a top performing organisation and a great place to work. We're a committed equal opportunities employer, creating a culture where you can bring your whole self to work, and individuality is truly appreciated.

This culture of inclusion is underpinned by our staff networks covering disability, faith and belief, LGBTQI+, race, social mobility alongside our mental health first aiders programme and wellbeing sessions.

The Crown Prosecution Service commits to offer its employees the following experience.

• You can do impactful, purposeful work that's making a difference to your local communities.
• You are able to learn and grow, with access to the right opportunities and resources.
• We care about your wellbeing.
• We want you to feel valued, trusted and included.

Please note that the CPS is unable to offer visa sponsorship. If you require visa sponsorship to work in the UK, you will not meet the eligibility criteria for this role.

At the Crown Prosecution Service, we design user-centred services that make the criminal justice system easier to use, quicker to deliver, and fairer for all.

As a senior content designer, you work in multidisciplinary teams in our User-Centred Design and Analysis profession, alongside user researchers, designers, business analysts, product managers, and policy and operational colleagues. You take complex legal and operational information and turn it into content that people can understand and act on, across digital and non-digital channels.

You use research, data and testing to understand what users need, and you make and explain design decisions based on that evidence, working to the GOV.UK style guide and the Service Standard.

You also help colleagues understand content design and why it matters. You share good practice, give feedback, support other content designers and help build our community of practice.

This role is a good fit if you want your work to make a real difference to public services, and you'd like to help shape how a profession grows in an organisation that's ready for it.

Your roles and responsibilities

• You design, write and iterate content for complex services, making sure it's clear, accessible and meets user needs
• You use evidence from user research, analytics and usability testing to understand user needs, map content journeys, and shape design decisions
• You work in multidisciplinary teams with user researchers, designers, product and delivery managers, and policy and operational colleagues
• You apply the GOV.UK style guide, the Service Standard and government design principles, so content is inclusive and accessible
• You help grow content design at CPS by sharing good practice, giving feedback and mentoring other content designers

A copy of the full job description is attached.

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

This is a full-time post. We do consider requests for flexible, part-time working and job share, always considering the operational needs of the department.

This post can be based in any location within England and Wales where a Crown Prosecution Service office is located. You are expected to travel to Crown Prosecution Service locations as part of this role, based on business needs. The Crown Prosecution Service is a Disability Confident employer and all reasonable adjustments are considered in line with Equality Act of 2010.

The Crown Prosecution Service is based in England and Wales. If you're applying for this role and live in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you must let us know when accepting this offer as you need permission to work from your home address if hybrid working is part of your role. There's no guarantee that we will grant this approval.

You must be aged 16 or over at the point of starting in this role. The expected start date is approximately 8-12 weeks after the application closing date. You are expected to commence employment as soon as possible following the expiry of your notice period. Requests for significantly later start dates may not be accommodated.

We want to ensure our employees can thrive at work and home and offer a range of support to achieve a balance. This includes flexibility of working hours, flexibility to support caring responsibilities and a flexible approach to deployment. We offer a hybrid working policy. You must spend at least 40% of your contracted hours over a four-week period at court, in an office or another official workplace depending on business need and the kind of work you're doing.

Apply before 11:55 pm on Friday 20th November 2026

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We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Working Together

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

You are also asked to complete a statement of no more than 250 words for the behaviour Communicating and Influencing, setting out how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience match the specified behaviours and requirements:

The panel has the right to assess the lead behaviour 'Communicating and Influencing' first. If the standard on this behaviour isn't met, the personal statement won't be considered and your application won't progress. The panel also has the right to raise the minimum standard pass mark. The panel may also refer to the lead behaviour at the interview stage to determine merit order.

CV

You're not required to upload your CV. However, when submitting your application there is a 'CV section'. You are required to provide information about your employment and/or academic history for the past three years, skills, and qualification details. The CV section will be assessed.

It's your responsibility to provide the specified information in the requested format to ensure that you're considered for the post.

If you're unable to cover three years through employment or academic history, you must provide a character reference for clearance purposes.

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

If successful, you are required to secure a Disclosure and Barring Service check, for which you must have a current valid UK address.

If successfully appointed, we ask you to complete a character enquiry form, and nationality and immigration questionnaire.

If you're a Crown Prosecution Service member of staff, you won't need to do a Disclosure and Barring Service check as you already hold this clearance.

The job you're applying for is covered by Article 3(a) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975, consequently Section 4(2) of that Act doesn't apply. You're required to disclose all previous convictions and cautions including spent convictions. Failing to make a full declaration will result in withdrawing your offer of employment if our checks reveal convictions that haven't been disclosed.

Successful candidates must undergo a standard (or equivalent) criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

If you're recommended by the selection panel but not appointed to the current vacancies, you're put on a reserve list for 12 months. You may be offered another Senior Content Designer post in the CPS if a vacancy comes up during this period. We may also approach candidates on the waiting list to fill other roles that require similar knowledge and experience.

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.

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