Digital Automation Developer

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, a world-renowned cancer centre,are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Developer to apply their expertise to lead and support digital automation. In this exciting role, you will be responsible for the design, development, and implementation of automation solutions to enhance business efficiency and productivity across the trust, using our UiPath technology amongst other tools. This will involve close working with process experts and business analysts as well as developing an understanding of the work colleagues do and then being able to translate that into steps for a robot to complete. Every hour saved by your work will enable our hard-working staff across the organisation to do even more to help patients.

Our culture is very mission-focused, driven by the following characteristics that underpin our success:

• We are professional.
• We are patient/customer focused.
• We have pride in ourselves, Digital Services, and The Christie.
• We work as a team.
• We are inclusive., You will design, develop, and maintain automation solutions that help teams focus on patient care by reducing manual processes. Key responsibilities include:
• Building and implementing automations using UiPath, Python, and other suitable technologies, following best practices and quality standards.
• Analysing requirements, designing processes, and creating automation solutions from concept to delivery.
• Supporting the full RPA lifecycle: planning, coding, testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance.
• Collaborating with business analysts, IT, and stakeholders to ensure successful project outcomes.
• Monitoring and optimising bot performance for reliability and scalability.
• Staying informed on RPA and UiPath developments, driving innovation and continuous improvement.
• Documenting technical specifications, processes, and best practices.
• Troubleshooting and resolving complex automation issues.
• Ensuring compliance with NHS data protection, security, and governance standards.
• Contributing to continuous improvement initiatives by identifying opportunities for optimisation.

Your work will directly improve efficiency, reduce administrative burden, and enhance patient experience across the Trust.

Your strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills, combined with your experience in software development and digital automation, will enable you to work effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation and contribute to delivering real value in terms of time returned to colleagues around the trust. You will bring experience of software development practices, where time will be given to ensure you adapt quickly and effectively to our technology.

The Christie is one of Europe's leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country. We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years. We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.