UX Designer Exp Research - Patient and Family Engagement

Tampa General Hospital•Tampa, FL

About The Position

The UX Designer is the primary consumer research, analytics, and experience design resource for the Consumer Insights & Experience Design Strategy team. The role studies the experiences, needs, expectations, and preferences of patients, families, caregivers, visitors, and community members and turns those findings into actionable organizational insights. The position uses direct engagement—including interviews, focus groups, observations, journey mapping, Patient and Family Advisory Council (PFAC) engagement, and Voice of the Customer activities—as well as feedback and operational data such as patient experience surveys, complaints, grievances, service recovery data, accessibility observations, and operational metrics. The UX Designer identifies patterns, barriers, and opportunities across the patient journey and creates research findings, dashboards, journey maps, visualizations, and design artifacts to help leaders understand consumer needs and prioritize improvements. As a strategic partner to clinical, operational, and administrative leaders, the UX Designer advances human-centered design and data-informed decision-making across the organization.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Healthcare Administration, Public Health, Communications, Data Analytics, Psychology, Business, or a related field.
Five years of experience in consumer research, user experience, customer or patient experience, healthcare analytics, consumer insights, business intelligence, community engagement, quality improvement, or a related field.
Experience conducting interviews, focus groups, surveys, and other research activities and synthesizing insights into actionable recommendations.
Experience developing presentations, reports, and stakeholder communications.
Experience facilitating workshops, journey mapping sessions, or advisory councils.
Experience analyzing qualitative and quantitative data, including survey data, consumer feedback, and patient experience metrics, and building dashboards and reports.
Experience with journey mapping or service design methods and facilitating workshops, co-design sessions, or advisory councils.
Knowledge of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies.
Strong facilitation, communication, and relationship-building skills.
Strong organizational and project management skills.
Ability to work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams.
Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills.
Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of patient experience and healthcare service delivery principles is preferred.

Responsibilities

Plan, conduct, and lead consumer research, including interviews, focus groups, observations, listening sessions, surveys, and other Voice of the Customer initiatives.
Oversee Patient and Family Advisory Council (PFAC) engagement and other consumer partnerships so diverse perspectives are represented in improvement efforts.
Facilitate journey mapping, co-design sessions, and experience assessments to identify opportunities, barriers, and unmet consumer needs.
Collect, combine, and analyze qualitative and quantitative data from patient experience surveys, complaints, grievances, service recovery, accessibility, PFAC, consumer research, and operational sources.
Identify themes, trends, and improvement opportunities across feedback channels and turn them into actionable insights and recommendations.
Create journey maps, service blueprints, personas, dashboards, and data visualizations that show consumer experiences across the continuum of care.
Develop and maintain standard methods for consumer research, experience analytics, reporting, and insight generation.
Monitor and evaluate experience performance indicators, emerging trends, and changing consumer needs.
Prepare executive presentations, research summaries, strategic briefs, and service-line insight reports for leadership.
Help prioritize and evaluate experience improvement opportunities through data-informed analysis and measurement of results.
Partner with clinical, operational, administrative, research, accessibility, and patient experience teams to incorporate consumer perspectives into planning and improvement initiatives.
Support co-design, stakeholder engagement, and human-centered design projects across service lines.