Development Service Lead Developer

at  Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

How w ould 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 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).
For more information about th is Lead Developer role, and about Informatics Merseyside, we will be hosting a brief and informal virtual session on M icrosoft Teams, that you are invited to join. P lease email Scott Chorley , Digital Solutions Ma nager ( Scott.Chorley@IMerseyside.nhs.uk ) if you w ould like to be invited to join this s ession.

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