Developer (.NET)
Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep.
Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
As a .NET Developer you will play a crucial role in advancing our technological capabilities to support the delivery of high-quality services for patients Northumbria Trust. Working in an Agile development team operating 2 weekly sprints, you will design, develop, test, and maintain innovative software solutions built on the Microsoft .NET framework deploying in to Azure.
- You will understand how to integrate Healthcare systems using Industry standards like Hl7 and FHIR protocol with integration engines like Mirth
- You will have experience as a .NET developer and be comfortable to analyse user requirements and business needs individually and then develop technical specifications and the resulting software solution.
- 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.
Main duties of the job
Software Development:
- Design, code, and test software applications using the .NET framework, adhering to coding standards and best practices.
- Collaborate with other developers and IT professionals to ensure seamless integration of applications and systems.
- Develop Healthcare systems integration using message protocols like Hl7 and FHIR.
System Analysis and Design:
- Analyse user requirements and business needs to develop technical specifications for software solutions and design solutions accordingly
- Assis with architecting scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems that align with organizational objectives.
Quality Assurance:
- Conduct thorough testing of your work and liaise closely with the QA team to build out test scnearios. Help identify and rectify defects, ensuring high-quality and reliable software prior to passing to the QA team.
Collaboration and Communication:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including business analysts, project managers, and system administrators, to understand user needs.
- Communicate effectively with team members, stakeholders, and end-users to ensure clarity and transparency throughout the development lifecycle.
Documentation:
- Create and maintain appropriate documentation for developed software, including technical diagrams and system documentation.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England.We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate.
High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities- Degree level or equivalent experience along with additional specialist knowledge acquired through post graduate diploma level or equivalent relevant experience
- The candidate should have a good level of knowledge around all aspects of .NET development and the wider software development lifecycle, underpinned by theory and professional experience.
- The candidate should be capable of analysing existing system with the ability to produce technical architecture and data system specifications.
- Proven experience of software development in a formal development environment
- Experience of C# .NET (MVC/Core)
- Experience developing APIs.
- Demonstratable experience of writing unit tests
- Experience working with relational data stores (SQL/NoSQL) and knowledge of how to review/improve query performance.
- Capable of pair-programming with other members of the team.
- To lead, inspire and motivate others to high performance by agreeing clear goals and objectives, providing support and guidance and creating opportunities for development.
- To contribute to the development of a culture of high engagement, where staff are empowered and entrusted to provide the best services and care for patients.
- To promote and facilitate innovation and continuous improvement to deliver better services for service users and patients.
- Accountability for the leadership of post holders staff / teams / departments.
Person specification
Qualifications / Professional Registration
Essential criteria- Degree level or equivalent plus additional specialist knowledge acquired through post graduate diploma level or equivalent relevant experience.
Experience
Essential criteria- Proven experience of software development in a formal development environment
- Experience of C# .NET (MVC/Core)
- Experience developing APIs.
- Demonstratable experience of writing unit tests
- Experience working with relational data stores (SQL/NoSQL) and knowledge of how to review/improve query performance.
- Good level of knowledge around all aspects of .NET development and the wider software development lifecycle, underpinned by theory and professional experience.
- Experience of consuming and modifying CI/CD pipelines
- Experience of developing in a Frontend Framework
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
- Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates.We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.