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About
NHS England leads the NHS in England to deliver high quality care for all. We support NHS organisations to deliver better outcomes for our patients and communities, work to get the best possible value for taxpayers, and drive improvement across the NHS.
Through our seven regional teams, NHS England supports local integrated care systems, made up of public services that provide health and care – NHS organisations, primary care professionals, local councils, social care providers and the community, voluntary and social enterprise sector – to improve the health of the population, improve the quality of care, tackle inequalities and deliver care more efficiently.
Senior Developer
Accepting applications until: 07-Oct-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 07-Oct-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Any NHSE Office
- Town
- Nationally
- Postcode
- LS1 4PL
- Major / Minor Region
- West Yorkshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Until 31/10/2026 - Secondment only for current NHS employees)
- Hours
- Full time
- Job share
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 per annum (excluding London weighting)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 8a)
Specialty
- Main area
- Administration
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
We are an accredited Living Wage Employer which means that every colleague working for our organisation and third-party contractors will earn a real Living Wage. We are one of over 15,000 organisations, who voluntarily chose to pay the real Living Wage.
Job overview
NHS England is seeking experienced Senior Developers to join product teams across various areas of the organisation to play a key part in the delivery of critical services that have a national impact.
As a Senior Developer you will work on systems that improve healthcare for millions of people across the UK. These systems range from citizen facing web portals to internal back-end services and will typically feature complex application logic that requires robust, secure, quality-focussed development practices.
We have 2 roles available in Product and Platforms. Product and Platforms builds and operates citizen and clinician facing products, working closely with other business areas across the NHS. We enable a consistent approach to digital products, underpinning technology strategy, and digital transformation, supporting the best outcomes for health and care.
- Our Central Engineering team in Products and Platforms builds and operates a set of products, tools, blueprints, and good practice guides to support Engineers, Developers, and Testers across Products and Platforms.
- NHS login provides patients and the public with a simple, secure and re-usable way to access multiple digital health and care services. It is used by many of NHS England's own patient-facing digital services, such as the NHS App, and also by many of our partners' apps and services.
The main technologies we use in these teams are AWS and Python.
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As a Senior Developer you will:
- Develop software components across the front-end, back-end, and persistence layers
- Utilise appropriate design patterns to solve complex problems
- Implement robust development techniques such as unit, integration, and end-to-end testing
- Design and implement domain models, data schemas, and application architectures
- Design and implement user interfaces
- Create and present software designs
- Produce detailed technical documentation and runbooks
- Ensure seamless integration and deployment of code
- Play a central role in defining and refining product backlogs and estimating tasks
- Take part and leading team activities such as planning and retrospectives
- Contribute to cross-programme working groups
- Stay informed of emerging technologies and industry trends
Candidates will need to demonstrate experience of the following:
- Development experience working on an application
- Experience working across different layers of the stack
- Implementing quality-focussed development practices
- Evidence using appropriate testing techniques
- Working within a team to deliver software in a collaborative way
Working for our organisation
Our work supports the NHS to deliver high quality services for patients and best value for taxpayers.
Our staff bring expertise across hundreds of specialisms — including clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial — enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.
We lead the NHS in England by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
If successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the recruitment process.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please note that the reason for the fixed term of this contract is - Short-term vacancy.
Earlier this year the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the Department. The purpose of this change is to create a smaller, more strategic centre which will reduce duplication and eliminate waste.
You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Secondments
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Leadership - Proven experience of technically leading a software development team, solving complex enterprise problems, developing such capabilities within teams and through the coordination of external suppliers.
- Innovation - Ability to experiment with new technologies to assess their fit to specific business problems and implements their adoption within a specific solution. Experience in identifying opportunities to leverage or adapt existing technologies to provide the best customer outcomes. Communicating best practice within own and neighbouring teams. Demonstrable understanding of specific application components of software development and proven ability to proactively spot potential issues and take actions to resolve.
- Adaptability - Experience and ability to adopt and adapt appropriate system design methods, tools and techniques to ensure they are applied effectively for successful deliveries. Experience in providing alternative solution approaches to deliver comparable capabilities with associated expressions of cost, risk, timescales to support evidence-based decisions. Proven experience in facilitating a learning culture in a collaborative team setting which values patterns and practices over specific technology implementations. Experience in driving adoption and acquisition of new skills in teams when working with new technologies.
- Technical - Experience of developing a large or complex system requiring the introduction of new or optimised exploitation of existing technologies. Identifies and articulates best use patterns for working with appropriately selected technologies to meet business problems. Experience in software architecture, design and development with an understanding of a range of platforms, languages, methodologies, patterns and implementations.
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria
- Significant knowledge in software development, architecture and design with experience of appropriate and representative languages, frameworks, platforms and tools; including knowledge of software delivery methodologies, information processing & standards, security, infrastructure and information governance.
- Knowledge of delivering and operating end-to-end from writing code to operating / maintaining, and continuous improvement.
Documents
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Andrew Blundell
- Job title
- Consultant Systems Engineer
- Email address
- [email protected]
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