Senior Automation and Innovation Developer | Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

This post will be responsible for leading teams in the design and creation of automation solutions and for the integration of these into, and between, existing systems. Providing cost-effective, risk-controlled, robust, reliable, responsive and secure automation solutions, this role will support clinical and corporate transformation needs to assist the organisation in delivering its strategy.

• Support development teams in the planning, execution and testing of digital productivity projects
• Lead on the implementation of new technology solutions, managing project deliverables in accordance with corporate project management standards.
• Collaborate with project stakeholders across all levels of the organisation. This will involve discussing workflow processes and aspects of solution design with members of service management.
• Communicate technology issues in a non-technical way so the target audience fully understand any communication is essential.
• Keep others abreast of team plans and all aspects of the digital productivity development lifecycle.
• Plan additions, deletions and minor modifications to process flows and interface engines upon trust-wide infrastructure and implementing and managing the change control process to ensure services are not adversely impacted because of change.
• Implement automation and integration solutions in compliance with trust security policies.
• Ensure critical digital productivity applications offer high availability, all business data is secure, backed up, archived as appropriate, and that all critical systems comply with trust-wide business continuity plans.

The post-holder will be an expert within their domain and have an in-depth knowledge of digital productivity tools including;

multiple automation tools (blue prism, automation anywhere, uipath, ndl, nice, ibm or similar)

an understanding and practical application of SQL to build and manipulate data tables.

coding knowledge of python or visual basic.

designing, using and integration using application programming interfaces (APIs).

Integration engines using HL7 or FHIR with open source Mirth or Rhapsody.

Use of cloud based delivery mechanisms including MS Azure and Amazon AWS

Deep understanding of NHS smartcards, their virtual applications and use.

CHFT is an integrated Trust of 6,500+ colleagues providing hospital and community services to patients and communities across Calderdale and Kirklees. We are rated as 'Good' by the Care Quality Commission, are a top performing Trust for Elective Recovery, Emergency and Cancer Care and widely acknowledged as a national digital lead when it comes to caring for people across our local and regional systems. Our people are at the core of everything we do, hence our commitment to One Culture of Care. Our focus is to care for and support each other in order to provide outstanding compassionate care to our patients. That is why we are looking for an inclusive collaborative, creative, innovative and compassionate leader to join us in this role. This post will be responsible for leading teams in the design and creation of automation solutions and for the integration of these into, and between, existing systems. Providing cost-effective, risk-controlled, robust, reliable, responsive and secure automation solutions, this role will support clinical and corporate transformation needs to assist the organisation in delivering its strategy.