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.
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.
Main duties of the job
* You will be responsible for defining processes that our dev team follows and ensuring the development team takes responsibility to implement.
* Technically adept, you will provide assistance/guidance to the dev team and define best practices in relation to code quality and standards.
* 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 responsibility for resourcing the team correctly and reporting 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 team's 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 the development lifecycle.
* Demonstrate excellent understanding of the Change Framework, promoting awareness of and adherence to the process within the team.
About us
We offer flexible working arrangements with 27 days annual leave as standard, which increases to 29 after 4 years of service and 33 days after 10 years.
Staff members are able to access perks such as salary sacrifice cars from www.nhsfleetsolutions.co.uk, home electronics, or cycle to work.
We have access to the Microsoft Enterprise Skills Initiative (ESI) that gives employees access to training courses and certifications with time committed outside of core duties each year to attend these.
Job description
Job responsibilities
* 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 senior developer/senior QA tester/product manager looking to move into dev team leadership.
* Your primary focus is to provide leadership and line management to developers who are working on new projects and supporting existing services. 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 team's 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.
* To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables, and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams/departments and across organisational boundaries.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Professional knowledge acquired through a degree or equivalent experience plus in-depth technical and strategic knowledge.
Experience
Essential
* Strong technical skills obtained as a senior/lead developer.
* Experience in resource planning and scheduling, estimation, and reporting on progress.
* Experience working with Agile and Scrum Teams.
Employer details
Employer name
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Seaton Deleval
Avenue Road
Seaton Deleval
NE25 0QJ
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