Job summary
- Main area
- Corporate
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 242-4670
- Employer
- North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 30 Innovation
- Town
- Parkway, Estuary Point or Broughton
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Solutions Developer
Band 6
North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We are committed to providing services which embrace diversity and which promote equality of opportunity. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet our minimum selection criteria at each stage of the selection process. We will not tolerate discrimination on any of the following: gender, marital status, sexual orientation, race, colour, nationality, religion, age, disability, working pattern, caring responsibilities trade union activity or political beliefs-or any other grounds.
The Trust is currently under-represented in terms of staff from black and minority ethnic backgrounds. We encourage applications from all backgrounds to improve the diversity of our workforce and to better reflect the communities we serve to provide the right care, at the right time, in the right place; every time.
The Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy early if a large number of applications are received.
Due to the volume of applications received for our advertisements, we will only contact those candidates shortlisted for interview via email; we aim to do this within 4 weeks of the closing date. If you do not receive the email, it will be that you have not been shortlisting on this occasion. When applying for this position, it is essential that you read the job description and person specification fully. Please use the supporting information space to demonstrate your ability to undertake this role, drawing on your skills, knowledge and experience.
We also offers a range of excellent benefits including a pension scheme, up to 33 days Annual leave (exclusive of bank holidays), training and development opportunities, access to NHS discounts, Car Lease Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme, NHS Mortgages and Childcare Vouchers.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Innovation, Development and Integration team at the North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust.
Initially, the role will focus on supporting our integration workstreams, focusing on the redevelopment of our Trust Integration Engine along with the development of integration work associated with the Microsoft Power Platform. There will also be the opportunity to support the development of our internally developed web applications.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will be an experienced web application and/or integration developer, with a flair for gathering complex systems requirements across a non-technical multidisciplinary team. They will join a small team of solution developers, technical architects, analysts and consultants in supporting the work of one of the UKs largest ambulance services.
The post holder will support development in a range of the following technologies:
• Microsoft Stack e.g. Visual Studio, SQL and Power Platform
• PHP 8.0+ and/or C++
• CSS
• JQuery
• JavaScript
• Bootstrap
Working for our organisation
North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust provides 24 hour, 365 days a year accident and emergency services to those in need of emergency medical treatment and transport.
Our highly skilled staff provide life-saving care to patients in the community and take people to hospital or a place of care if needed.
We also provide non-emergency patient transport services for those patients who require non-emergency transport to and from hospital and who are unable to travel unaided because of their medical condition or clinical need.
Alongside the other emergency services, we also work to ensure the safety of the public and treatment of patients in the event of a major incident.
We also deliver the NHS 111 service in the North West. NHS 111 replaced NHS Direct in 2013. This service was introduced to make it easier for people to access local NHS healthcare services in England. It provides non-emergency medical help fast, and is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please ensure you have read the full Job Description and Person Specification before applying for this role.
Person specification
Skills
Essential criteria
- Understanding of the public sector
- Demonstrated experience in a healthcare environment.
- Able to respond flexibly to changing priorities and highly motivated.
- Project a professional image
- Able to prioritise workloads, work to tight deadlines under pressure and exercise initiative
- Evidence of continued professional development
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A Master’s degree or equivalent in relevant subject area
- Educated to higher degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
- ITIL Foundation Accredited
- Evidence of further development and or education and training
- Proven experience in Microsoft SQL Server and knowledge of Server-Side technologies such as PHP 7.0 and above, and/or knowledge of .NET and C#
- Demonstrates a good knowledge of the full stack development lifecycle and core development principles.
- Able to show experience and knowledge of HTML, CSS, and a number of front-end libraries such as jQuery, Bootstrap 5. A
- Expert knowledge and experience of working with Microsoft .NET architecture and Microsoft technology stack including the Power platform
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experiencing in working as a team actively engaging with and supporting colleagues.
- Experience of managing risks and reporting
- Experience of drafting briefing papers and explaining highly complex issues to SMT, and a wide range of internal and external stakeholders
- Experience of collaborative and team working practices
- Experience of working with ITIL and Service Management processes
- Experience working in an agile environment with knowledge of the SCRUM framework.
- Experience in using tools to validate CSS and XHTML and cross browser testing to ensure adherence to relevant guidelines
- Experience of designing and building scalable and secure systems
- Knowledge of web security and experience building secure websites and applications.
- Experience of Microsoft SQL Reporting Services and Integration services.
- Experience of using business analytics tools such as Power BI.
- Experience of building applications in an environment to support our continuous integration and deployment
- Experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment.
- Experience in system testing and building test plan and scenario documentation.
Values
Essential criteria
- Strong and adaptable team player, responsive to the needs of the service, staff, and patients
- Excellent communication skills.
- Excellent documentation skills.
- Excellent planning and organisational skills
- Ability to interpret and communicate technical information to peers and to a non-technical audience
- Car driver able to work across the Northwest footprint
- Flexible approach to working and requirement to work unsociable hours in line with the needs of the service
- To support on call out of hours rota
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Matt Dugdale
- Job title
- Head of Clinical and Digital Innovation
- Email address
- [email protected]
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