Band 7 Informatics Developer

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

The Health Informatics Department at University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) are looking for an experienced Developer to join our talented team.

You will play a key role in the provision and support of our online analytics platform, Healthcare Evaluation Data (HED). This will include the design, development, implementation, support and maintenance of the HED system websites.

This post offers a truly unique opportunity for a technically talented developer to help build an innovative product that will inform and empower decision makers across the NHS.

Main duties of the job

In your role as a developer in the HED Team, you'll get to:

1. Apply your advanced skills in .NET application development and MS SQL Products to tackle compelling technical problems;
2. Collaborate with our business managers, analysts, web developers and data scientists to design and implement developments which benefit the NHS;
3. Develop new skills and work within a close-knit, enthusiastic and highly-effective team with a strong ethos of personal development;
4. Showcase your people and project management skills and experience as you line manage and help mentor junior developers whilst working in sprints;
5. Empower clinical and non-clinical end users across the NHS by responding to technical queries and creating bespoke analytical reports.

This post would be ideally suited to an experienced developer with significant web application development knowledge. The post holder will be responsible for building and managing the performance of application functions which are both externally and internally facing, to ensure the Trust can meet existing and new national/local requirements for the HED system.

Shortlisted applicants will first be invited to a technical competency test to take place at Yardley Court, Edgbaston. The best performing candidates will be invited back for a full interview.

This role is based at Yardley Court, Edgbaston & working from home.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

1. Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
2. Offering our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Job responsibilities

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Educated to master's degree level
• Computer Science or equivalent, relevant post graduate professional qualification or equivalent experience in
• Evidence of further professional development.
• A certificate in using Microsoft Office applications.
• Microsoft Certified in the use of SQL Server.

Experience

• Demonstrable and significant experience in the following
• Transact SQL, Microsoft SQL Server Database Design Web Development
• Substantial experience, in a software design, development and support environment that involves complex computer systems.
• Experience of analysing and interpreting complex information and presenting it in a simplified manner.
• Demonstrable and significant experience in the use of Visual Studio.
• Demonstrable experience of working in a response-critical environment where system up-time and availability is paramount.
• Demonstrable experience of interfacing between systems using messaging standards such as XML or similar.
• Good working knowledge of XML, XSLT, and JSON.
• Good appreciation of confidentiality issues and the Data Protection Act.
• Experience of handling, analysing, and manipulating large, complex datasets.
• Experience in management of others' workloads, including the delegation of jobs.
• A strong working knowledge of the NHS Data Dictionary and Data Definitions as well as clinical terminology.
• Demonstrable understanding of NHS care structures and information flows within and between health organisations.
• Knowledge and understanding of relevant procedures and guidelines around health-related datasets, information sharing and data storage.
• Knowledge and a strong interest in informatics, analytics and programming, underpinned by significant experience and/or theoretical study.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of relevant NHS policies and initiatives.
• An understanding of the NHS strategy for Informatics.

Additional Criteria

• Ability to work effectively within a team.
• Confident, highly motivated, and able to use own initiative.
• Ability to resolve problems effectively.
• Significant attention to detail.
• Can share knowledge.
• Has professional integrity.
• Ability and willingness to work flexibly and as part of a team.
• A highly effective communicator.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.