Medical Illustrator

Are you a healthcare professional planning to transition to a non-clinical role outside the NHS?

Do you also have a background in art?

If so, we’d like to hear from you!

Clinical Skills provides illustrated training support materials for the NHS and higher education, which are used extensively by nurses and other healthcare professionals.

As one of our medical illustrators, you would become part of a growing team in a reputable company serving the healthcare industry, which is helping tens of thousands of NHS staff and students understand how to put evidence-based clinical practice into practice.

You’ll need to be able to combine your clinical knowledge and your artistic skills to help produce our fully illustrated educational materials for healthcare professionals. Our online resource, clinicalskills.net, includes more than 500 illustrated guides, including topics ranging from how to help feed a patient in bed, all the way through to management of an arterial line.

You’d be working from home full time (Monday to Friday), although you’d need to be within easy reach of London for occasional team meetings.

Our ideal applicant will have:

• Clinical awareness gained by having worked in healthcare at some point
• Excellent draughting skills including, ideally, a formal art qualification
• Knowledge of anatomy and physiology
• Detailed knowledge of Adobe Illustrator software

You’ll need to be able to grasp scientific or medical concepts and translate them into easy-to-understand artwork. Equally, much of the work involves drawing healthcare professionals and patients interacting with each other, in specific settings. The successful applicant will work closely with our editorial staff and our existing illustration team.

If this role sounds exciting to you, please email info@clinicalskills.net with the following: an application letter explaining why you’d be a good fit, your CV and some examples of your illustration work. We’re particularly interested to see examples of life drawing. Please put “Medical Illustrator application” in the title of your email.

Salary and benefits

• Location: Remote working, with occasional team meetings in London, but sometimes in other locations as required.
• Hours: 35 hours a week, Monday to Friday. Hours are flexible between 8 am and 7 pm (core hours 10 am to 12 pm and 2 pm to 4 pm). (NB, no weekend working, and no shift working!)
• Salary: £30,000 – £36,000 per annum, dependant on experience
• 31 days holiday including bank holidays increasing with service
• Company pension
• Help with healthcare costs: Simply Health Level 5

The application process will include technical tasks, an interview and a quiz on anatomy and physiology. To apply, you must have the right to work in the UK.

 

Customer support agent

The person we’re looking for to take on this new role has almost certainly already heard of clinicalskills.net and, ideally, has already used it in a healthcare or university setting. Their task will be to reach out to all our clients and help them get the best out of their clinicalskills.net subscriptions.

But just in case you haven’t heard of clinicalskills.net, we are the best online educational resource in the UK to support training and best practice in clinical skills. We’re all about evidence-based best practice and we provide more than 200 NHS trusts, UK universities, hospices and care homes with access to more than 525 fully illustrated step-by-step guides to clinical skills, with accompanying assessments. Plus we’ve just launched our new clinical competency tool, which includes online digital checklists for skills observations.

About us

We’re a rapidly expanding team of 16, many of us with healthcare backgrounds, who are all passionate about delivering the information and tools that the NHS and universities need for clinical skills training. Everyone works from home, and we meet up in London several times a year for training and socialising.

Our company, Clinical Skills, was founded in 2004 and, following the launch of our latest web app in 2024, more than 500,000 people now use clinicalskills.net to access the information they need to stay up to date and test their clinical skills knowledge.

About you

We’re looking for someone who:

• Has a strong background in healthcare, ideally in the NHS or higher education
• Has a deep understanding of the clinical education needs of nurses and student nurses, including how clinical educators can use a resource like ours to develop their workforce
• Is tech savvy and comfortable with educational software and learning management systems, particularly those used in the NHS
• Has the engaging personality and confidence that will help them to forge relationships with both key stakeholders at client organisations and prospective clients. This will include meeting clients, providing support and demonstrating clinicalskills.net virtually or in person.

Salary and benefits

• Location: Remote working, with occasional team meetings in London, but sometimes in other locations throughout the UK to attend conferences or to meet clients or prospective clients as required (travel expenses will be paid).
• Hours: 35 hours a week, 9 am to 5 pm Monday to Friday
• Salary: £35K to £42K
• Company pension
• 31 days holiday including bank holidays increasing with service
• Simply Health scheme (help with specific healthcare costs)

What next?

If you like what you’ve heard, and would like to work with us, please email info@clinicalskills.net, telling us why you’d be a great fit for this role. Please call your email “Customer support application” and send a full CV too.

Expected start date: January/February 2027