Development Service Lead Developer

How would you like to be involved in creating innovative solutions that directly benefit clinical staff and patients within the NHS? In the Informatics Merseyside Development Service, we use a variety of platforms to develop software applications and interfaces, supporting multiple NHS organisations., The post holder will be responsible for the provision of application support to partner organisations and customers and support with the design and development of complex bespoke software applications, including interfaces, databases and other web-enabled and non-web-enabled information systems., The objective of the Informatics Merseyside Development Service is to develop digital solutions through collaboration and innovation. We are a high performing team, consistently looking to evolve our best practices, knowledge, and skills to provide innovative digital solutions to our partners and customers.
We are a customer orientated service that is responsive and effective in the delivery of the digital requirements of our Partner Organization's (POs) and Customers in line with local and national IM&T priorities. The Development service provision is required to keep pace with ongoing development of technologies, providing solutions that are interactive for the end user and support changes in models of care delivery within the NHS and the need for agile working. The requirements now are increasingly for advanced custom development capabilities, using an array of platforms, languages and technologies.
The post holder will be responsible for leading the design and development of complex bespoke software applications, including interfaces, databases and other web-enabled and non-web-enabled information systems.
Principal Responsibilities
+ Designs, develops and tests websites and complex bespoke software applications, including databases and other web enabled and non web enabled information systems.
+ Receives and assesses non-routine and complex enquiries and requests for service from partner organisations and customers.
+ Analyses partner and customer requirements and evaluates and selects appropriate technical solutions, where there are several technologies.
+ Provides training and on-going support to Developers in web design and development, and in the use of web, software, and integration development technologies.
+ Manages a variable workload, plans and modifies, often at short notice, a work programme containing complex tasks and activities to ensure that PO requirements are addressed in an appropriate and timely manner.
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We celebrate diversity and promote equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email [email protected] to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team or email [email protected]) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.

The Development Service is looking for a well organised and enthusiastic individual, who is a strong problem solver with experience in one of our three service areas:
+ Web Development (C#, Asp.net, Entity Framework, Blazor)
+ Microsoft SharePoint (React, Typescript, JavaScript, CSS, C#)
+ Integration of Systems (HL7, XML, JSON, Javascript, Rhapsody).

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

For more information about this Lead Developer role, and about Informatics Merseyside, we will be hosting a brief and informal virtual session on Microsoft Teams, that you are invited to join. Please email Scott Chorley, Digital Solutions Manager ([email protected]) if you would like to be invited to join this session.
What we can offer:
+ Hybrid Working
+ Role based training.
+ Continued personal and professional development.
+ A friendly and supportive environment
+ Consideration of requests for Flexible working arrangements
+ Health and wellbeing services and support
+ Access to NHS staff discounts scheme
+ Staff recognition schemes
+ Minimum of 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays, depending on length of service this may increase.
+ The opportunity to participate in the NHS pension scheme.