Employer: Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Waverley Road
Town: St Albans
Salary: £39,205 - £47,084 per annum, pro rata (including 5% HCAS)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 18/02/2025 23:59
Developer
NHS AfC: Band 6
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust, we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered, please take part in our online values questionnaire. When you have finished, you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
The overall purpose of Health Informatics is to enable, promote, and support the effective use of data, information, knowledge, and technology to support and improve health and healthcare delivery. Therefore, the role of Informatics is to ensure the organisation has the required Business Intelligence and Information Services necessary to provide excellent clinical care to its service users and to give the organisation accurate and timely information on which to base the provision and development of services.
The post holder will be responsible for building web applications using both object-oriented and low-code systems. The post holder should be able to translate Trust and departmental needs into functional and appealing interactive applications.
Main duties of the job
1. Use mark-up languages to create user-friendly web applications.
2. Maintain and improve trust-wide web applications.
3. Optimize applications for maximum speed.
4. Design multiplatform features for those web applications.
5. Collaborate with other developers to improve usability and integrate applications with other systems.
6. Get feedback from, and build solutions for, various internal stakeholders.
7. Write functional requirement documents and guides.
8. Create quality mock-ups and prototypes.
9. Help database developers with coding and troubleshooting.
10. Ensure high-quality graphic standards and data consistency.
11. Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies.
Working for our organisation
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission. Our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provides health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health, and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families, and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence, and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are: Welcoming, Kind, Positive, Respectful, Professional. These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like to work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Develop and maintain a detailed knowledge of information and operational business processes and how these can support the achievement of agreed targets and objectives.
2. Develop the Trust’s information and performance management systems to enable better business decision-making.
3. Present highly complex information regarding the implementation of technical reporting solutions in a clear and understandable format to groups or meetings, including making formal presentations to large groups and/or workshops.
4. Support the scoping, development, and implementation of a Business Intelligence tool and associated dashboards.
5. Produce, analyse, and interpret highly-complex statistical information to groups of users (both internal and external) in a clear and understandable way.
6. Ensure all information outputs of the Data Warehouse are accurate, fit for purpose, delivered on time, and follow the agreed development methodology with full written documentation.
7. Design, code, test, and implement efficient and robust database schemas plus SQL Queries, Views, Stored Procedures, and Triggers as part of data warehouse development.
8. Build user-friendly web applications for data collection using low-code software.
9. Embrace innovation and explore new technologies to enhance processes where improvements are possible.
Person specification
Education, Knowledge, and Experience
* Educated to degree level in a computer-related discipline or equivalent work experience in software development.
* Evidence of substantial software development experience in the full software development lifecycle.
* Knowledge and experience of Information Governance – information security management, GDPR, and Freedom of Information Act.
* Evidence of working in a data warehouse environment.
* Development of web-based front ends that interact with databases such as Microsoft SQL Server.
* Experience creating web applications for data capture (Power Platform).
* Experience within a broad and complex corporate IT operational environment.
* Understanding of the information needs of operational staff at all levels within organisations and experience of working across-organisation boundaries.
* Experience of manipulating complex data to produce automated reports.
* Understanding of reporting layers that negate the need to rewrite complex scripts whenever there is a change to the data warehouse structure.
* Knowledge/experience of Mental Health Services.
Skills and Aptitudes
* A logical approach to investigating, analysing, and resolving data and programming problems.
* Detailed knowledge of relational database design and implementation (e.g. Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Dataverse).
* An understanding of how applications/systems can integrate using REST APIs.
* Knowledge of low code application development using MS Power Platform.
* Experience with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) or Power BI.
* Proficient database management and querying skills with a proven ability to write stored procedures, functions, and triggers.
* Robust system and unit testing experience, producing relevant test documentation.
* Knowledge of medical information systems, particularly patient administration and clinical management systems.
* System development quality assurance and best practice.
* Knowledge of data privacy laws and in particular NHS IM&T policies and procedures.
* Skills for managing relationships with a range of different stakeholders.
* Excellent computing keyboard skills and proven experience in using different software development tools.
* Work experience as a web developer.
* Understanding of the entire web development process (design, development, and deployment).
* In-depth knowledge of Java.
* Experience with Microsoft Power Platform (Especially: Canvas Apps, Dataverse & Power Automate Cloud Flows).
Communications Skills
* Communication of complex information to users at all levels of the organisation and with external clients, suppliers, and vendors.
* Negotiate on difficult and detailed issues with the ability to communicate technical information clearly at a level understandable by the audience.
* Maintain productive relationships with different parties to understand the software development needs of the Trust.
* Provide support and training to team members to develop their skills and knowledge.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is rated by the Care Quality Commission as an Outstanding provider of mental health and learning disability services. In 2021, we won the prestigious Health Service Journal award for Mental Health Trust of the Year. Our staff rated us the 4th best mental health and learning disability trust to work for out of all 52 trusts in the country. Our staff tell us that they are proud to be part of the HPFT team, proud of the standard of care we provide, and proud that service users are our top priority.
If you would like to join a team to be proud of and you share our values and passion for great care and outcomes for our service users and carers, we would love to hear from you.
Additional Information
HPFT is committed to being an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from all areas of the community. We aim to be a representative organisation regarding age, disability, ethnicity, gender, beliefs, and sexual orientation. We are fully committed to equality, diversity, and human rights and encourage applications from all sections of the community including users of mental health services.
The Trust is committed to helping staff balance work and home life and welcomes applications from candidates wishing to work part-time or under flexible working arrangements.
Infection Control
All our staff will need to comply with current Infection Prevention and Control measures which could include wearing a mask on all our Trust sites and in all roles.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020. A submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service will be necessary to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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