Development Service Lead Developer | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

How would you like to beinvolved increating innovative solutions that directlybenefitclinical staff and patients within the NHS?In theInformatics Merseyside Development Service,we use a variety of platforms to develop software applications and interfaces, supporting multiple NHS organisations. The Development Service is looking forawell organised andenthusiastic individual, who is astrong problem solver with experience inone of our three service areas:

• WebDevelopment(C#, Asp.net, Entity Framework, Blazor)
• Microsoft SharePoint(React, Typescript, JavaScript, CSS, C#)
• Integration of Systems (HL7,XML, JSON,Javascript,Rhapsody).
For more information about thisLeadDeveloperrole, and about Informatics Merseyside, we will be hosting a brief and informal virtual session on MicrosoftTeams, that you are invited to join. Please emailScott Chorley,Digital Solutions Manager (Scott.Chorley@IMerseyside.nhs.uk)if you would liketobe invited to join thissession. What we can offer:
• Hybrid Working
• Role based training.
• Continued personal and professionaldevelopment.
• 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 participatein the NHS pensionscheme.
The post holder willbe responsible forthe provision of application support to partner organisations and customers and support with the design and development of complex bespoke software applications, including interfaces,databasesand other web-enabled and non-web-enabled information systems. 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. Job Purpose: Theobjectiveof 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 isrequiredto 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,languagesand technologies. The post holder willbe responsible forleading the design and development of complex bespoke software applications, including interfaces,databasesand other web-enabled and non-web-enabled information systems. Principal Responsibilities
• Designs,developsand tests websites and complex bespoke software applications, including databases and other web enabled andnon webenabled 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 selectsappropriate technicalsolutions, 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,plansandmodifies, often at short notice, a work programmecontainingcomplex tasks and activities to ensure that PO requirements are addressed inan appropriateandtimelymanner.