Front End Developer

We are looking for an experienced Senior Front End Developer (Band 8a) to join our Clinical Application Development team within Digital Services. Our team designs and delivers innovative, secure and scalable software that directly supports clinical services across the Trust. As a senior member of the team, you will play a key role in designing modern, user-focused front-end applications using contemporary JavaScript frameworks and cloud-based services. You will contribute to our digital clinical strategy by shaping product direction, mentoring developers, and driving continuous improvement in our engineering practices. You will work within a cross-functional agile team, collaborating closely with clinical stakeholders, business analysts and backend developers to deliver high-quality digital solutions that make a real impact on patient care., + Develop high-quality front-end applications using React and associated tooling.

• Lead technical delivery within agile teams, shaping solutions, guiding technical decisions and ensuring robust engineering standards.
• Work collaboratively with clinicians and operational teams to translate complex requirements into intuitive digital solutions.
• Mentor and support other developers through coaching, pair-programming and knowledge sharing.
• Maintain and enhance CI/CD pipelines and support deployment processes in Azure.
• Undertake detailed analysis of complex technical and business problems, proposing innovative and cost-effective solutions.
• Ensure compliance with Trust standards, legislative requirements, information governance, and software development best practice.
• Support the Head of Development with long-term planning, roadmap development and strategic technical decisions.
• Take responsibility for accurate estimation of work, planning of development activities and managing your workload effectively in a dynamic environment.
• Act as Scrum Master when required, ensuring continuous delivery and adherence to agile processes., We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer. If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2. Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance. Make sure to read the 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust! Certificate of Sponsorship Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

In particular skills and experience required for the role of Senior Developer includes:

• Expert knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript

• Experience developing Frontend Application using Modern Javascript frameworks like React/Vue/Svelte/Angular

• Writing unit tests with modern front end testing frameworks like Jest

• Experience of consuming and modifying CI/CD pipelines

• Experience working with API of varying types and integrating with backend data

• Experience of working with cloud technologies (Azure/AWS)

• Capable of teaching/mentoring/pair-programming with other members of the team Knowledge and experience of the following technologies is desirable:

• Experience of working in a Continuous Delivery or Deployment environment

• Experience of developing any backend API frameworks Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and those who have been looked after by the care system as a child or young person (for example, in foster care, children's homes, kinship or local authority care) who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.

NHS AfC: Band 8a Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way! What the Northumbria Way means for you:

• Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
• Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
• A range of flexible working opportunities
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
• Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
• Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare. Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It's open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care. We are proud to be one of the country's top performing NHS trusts - rated 'outstanding' overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people's homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services. We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise - a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people's lives, such as education, employment and the economy. If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news. Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.