Senior 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 manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? 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, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.

• 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