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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
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Contact
- Address
- Trust Offices
- St Thomas' Street
- London
- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
Senior Automation Developer
Accepting applications until: 25-Mar-2026 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 25-Mar-2026 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Education Centre
- Address
- 75-79 York Road
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 7NJ
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Please note that contract ends April 2027.)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Contract ends April 2027.)
Salary
- Salary
- £56,276 - £63,176 inc HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Administration
- Interview date
- 01/04/2026
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
The Trust has a Centre for Automation which seeks to realise the benefits of automation in transforming administrative and clinical pathways to improve our services. The Senior Automation Developer will be a key part of this team.
The Trust’s Automation programme aims to fundamentally enhance and update our model of care. We aspire to continually enhance the quality of care we deliver, the outcomes our patients achieve as a result, and their experience of our services. We must meanwhile future-proof the organisation and protect our world-leading services and research by making care delivery as efficient as possible. To do so we must leverage our existing clinical and administrative resources whilst taking advantage of emerging healthcare technologies.
The Automation programme has already developed capability in Robotic Process Automation with Blue Prism Cloud and low-code platforms such as Power Automate. The postholder will be essential to further expand our capacity to improve clinical and administrative pathways.
Interview date TBC.
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The postholder will lead the design, development and strategic advancement of automation solutions that enhance the efficiency, accuracy and reliability of clinical and non‑clinical services across the Trust. As a senior technical specialist within a multidisciplinary digital team, the postholder will take ownership of complex automation initiatives, translating operational and service transformation needs into scalable, secure and resilient automated workflows aligned with NHS digital and information governance standards.
The postholder will contribute to the delivery of high‑quality automation throughout the full development lifecycle, including detailed requirements analysis, process optimisation, solution architecture, coding, testing, deployment and ongoing enhancement. They will provide expert technical leadership in automation technologies.
Acting as a senior subject matter expert, the postholder will contribute to the Trust’s digital and automation strategy, advising on future capabilities, emerging technologies and service‑wide improvement opportunities. They will ensure that automation solutions are robust, scalable and compliant with cybersecurity, data quality and governance frameworks. The role requires significant autonomy, strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, and the ability to lead development activity while supporting colleagues and stakeholders to embed automation as a key enabler of safe, effective and sustainable patient care.
Working for our organisation
The Delivery team is part of the Centre for Innovation, Transformation, and Improvement (CITI). CITI was founded in 2021 under the Deputy Chief Executive (DCE). The DCE is the Executive Director responsible for leading and implementing the Trust’s strategy for innovation and improvement, which aims to develop an ecosystem that encourages the acceleration of new knowledge and capabilities and learn from best practices globally, to deliver improvements in patient care, research and education at scale. CITI co-locates multi-faceted teams to provide the focal point for clinical innovators and services seeking to translate ideas or early stage products or improvements into clinical practice. The Centre aims both to incubate and deliver innovations and improvement ideas, projects and programmes, working alongside and for its clinical customers for the benefit of patients.
CITI builds on industry best practice in taking innovation from concept to practice. It aims to foster a culture of innovation and improvement throughout the Trust, and acts as the intellectual home of our core change methodologies.
CITI aims to improve the adoption of new clinical technologies with an agile operational model, delivering a data-driven approach to evaluating performance of novel technologies, creating a sustainable culture of innovation in clinical and operational workforce, and to build enduring partnerships with academia, industry, investors, our communities and other key stakeholders.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification attached in this advert for full information about this role.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
Due to recent changes in the UK immigration rules which affect Skilled Worker Visas, Global Business Mobility, Higher Skill Level and Increased Salary Thresholds, please ensure that you are able to meet the requirements to live and work in the UK before applying. Further information about eligibility is available on the UK Government website.
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Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Relevant master’s degree or equivalent qualification or significant experience of working at this level
- Blue Prism Cloud practitioner status or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Additional Blue Prism Cloud Certification or other RPA qualification
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Experience/Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Considerable experience of working with automation technology
- Practical experience of managing the automation lifecycle complying to best practice standards
- Good awareness of change management
- Experience of documenting solutions and system dependencies
- Use of IT systems (e.g., Word, Excel, Outlook) – standard keyboard skills
- Understanding of the NHS and current agenda
- Demonstratable knowledge of service improvements and project management
- Demonstrable knowledge of risk management and governance
Desirable criteria
- Proven experience of working with Blue Prism Cloud technology to deliver complex healthcare automations within the NHS.
- Experience of developing solutions using Microsoft Power Platform - Power Apps and Microsoft Power Automate
- NHS specific IT system experience
- Knowledge and experience with OCR and AI techniques
- Experience of facilitating change in practice to improve services
- Working knowledge of all areas of the hospital in both corporate and clinical areas
- Working experience in system development and implementation projects
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good analytical and problem-solving skills – ability to analyse complex data/information and make judgements/draw conclusions
- Strong communication skills both written and verbal – able to communicate complex and sensitive information
- Ability to work independently, using own initiative and collaboratively as part of a team
- Ability to embrace and drive change
- Demonstrated ability to lead self and others
- Demonstrated ability to identify training needs of self and others.
- Ability to organise and prioritise own workload and adjust plans as required, working flexibly to meet the demands of the role
- Ability to work autonomously and with initiative, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team, and build healthy working relationships, communicating effectively and sensitively with others
- Good interpersonal and communication skills in line with the Trust’s Core Behaviours and wider NHS values
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nicholas Bell
- Job title
- Automation Delivery Manager & Lead Developer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Please e-mail Nicholas Bell if you require more information or for an informal conversation.
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