With a strong background in development and cloud technologies you will be responsible for leading the development team working on a range of clinical systems built upon modern technology stacks. You will have a strong background leading development teams within an agile setting and have the desire and enthusiasm to deliver but also innovate.
You will be responsible for proposing and implementing cloud solutions as all our systems are deployed within Azure making use of native services.
The development team are responsible for providing systems to frontline staff at the point of patient care. The team and supporting teams have expanded over the last year with a plan of continued recruitment and investment in the team to be a leader within the NHS.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received, + Technically adept you will provide assistance/guidance to the dev team and define best practice in relation to code quality and standards
+ You will be the Azure expert for your team and be responsible for technical and architectural decisions on all deployments by your team
+ You will be responsible of defining process that our dev team follows and ensuring the development team take responsibility to implement
+ Working closely with Project Managers/Product Owners you will provide insight towards new development work via agreed changes, estimates and also innovative changes that come from within the development team
+ You will take responsiblity for resourcing the team correctly and reporting in to the Deputy Director of Development to expand and deliver on a strong Digital Vision
+ You can have the capacity to be actively involved with development work but not at the detriment of an efficiently functioning delivery team as you will be core to the teams success
+ You will be working on existing and green field solutions that use the latest technologies with a large variety of projects to get involved with
+ You will operate in a cloud first development environment and we would look to you to introduce new tools/approaches to improve development lifecycle.
+ Demonstrate excellent understanding of the Change Framework, promoting awareness of and adherence to the process within the team, + As Dev Team Lead/Manager you will be responsible for leading and managing the application development team within Northumbria Healthcare Trust delivering on a range of systems with the Digital Services department. This will include the management of Backend and Frontend developers and you will be expected to have deep technical knowledge and experience.
+ You will have experience of working in a development environment and either experience of a similar role or being a lead/senior/principal developer
+ You will have extensive development experience and be well versed in designing and deploying cloud solutions within Azure
+ Your primary focus is to provide technical leadership, line management and mentorship to developers who are working on a variety of new projects and existing products. You will work collaboratively to define common approaches to application development and integration and ensure development standards are documented and maintained by the team.
+ Within your role, you will be developing the teams' adoption of agile ways of working alongside, Product Owners, Project Managers, and Business Analysts. You will be successful in supporting teams to adopt new tools and approaches to development and continue to change as the
organisation expands its portfolio of internally developed systems.
+ Development teams main tech stacks/approaches are .NET / React / Micro Services / Azure / Azure DevOps
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
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 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.
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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.

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
+ On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
+ Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
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.
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