Job vacancy: Software Developer, The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, 317 Regent Point

Job summary

Main area: 317 IT - Systems Development
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 317-2025-26-04-DR

Employer: The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Regents Point
Town: 317 Regent Point
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 13/07/2025 23:59
Interview date: 28/07/2025

Software Developer

Band 6

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 15,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.6 billion.

We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts each day, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This challenging post will require the post holder, under limited direction, to analyse business requirements, create technical design documents, develop code test and provide on-going application support. The post holder will be an integral member of the team responsible in providing services to meet the Trust’s IT and business requirements. The post holder will support the Applications and Development Manager with the following activities:

Ensures specialist or complex IM&T information is processed in accordance with policies & procedures.
Investigate specialist or complex IM&T issues
Provide in-house bespoke software analysis, design, development, testing and software support services to the Trust.
Support legacy .NET applications. In some cases this will involve re-engineering into the latest .NET technology.
Provide a support service to identify and rectify bugs and faults logged on the IT Service desk (for supported in-house developments or as specified by the manager).
Develop or adapt complex software / web pages / information reports
Provide support to the Project Management team relating to any third party products / solutions which are brought into the Trust.
Work with the Server / Infrastructure team to ensure that all applications / servers are resilient providing maximum availability to the Trust.
Monitor quality and processes to identify areas of improvement. Work with other New Ref: members of the department to implement these improvements.
Regularly research and investigate new technologies and methods that would be of benefit to the department.
To assist in the planning of the development programme plan via timely production and maintenance of individual development project plans.
Be responsible for the management of multiple projects.
Liaise directly with clients in order to gather information.
Specify, develop and implement bespoke applications to enable the Trust to improve working processes.
Work to deadlines to achieve agreed objectives using one’s own skill and judgement.
Carry out tasks with minimal supervision to a high standard.
Ensure that assigned projects are completed to time and budget constraints.
Research and identify the best methods/solutions to overcome issues be they development or Trust related.
To ensure that all bespoke development is carried out in a safe and professional manner, tested and with all documentation (including software code, test plans and data, training and system manuals, planning) of sufficient quality and detail to allow for on-going support and redevelopment.
To ensure that all code produced complies with departmental coding standards, policies and procedures.
Assist in the development of continuity and disaster recovery plans in the event of loss of service.
Take a primary role in the education and training of key staff in the care and use of Trust bespoke applications.
To ensure that all Requests for Change (specifications and requirements) are captured and fully documented.
Perform other duties and undertake special projects as requested by the manager.
Work with Trust staff, partners and vendors.

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

A degree or equivalent qualification / experience including courses in computer programming, systems analysis, system development, or systems engineering.

Desirable criteria

A recognised Project management methodology certification

Experience

Essential criteria

Extensive experience as a Software Developer.
Considerable experience in translating business requirements into technical specifications
Considerable experience in the design and development of software solutions
Experience in project management techniques.

Desirable criteria

Experience of taking a lead role in software development.
Experience of working within the NHS.
Understanding of NHS Information requirements.

Skills

Essential criteria

Ability to communicate verbally and in writing both clearly and concisely.
Ability to prioritise and organise own work effectively and work on own initiative
Ability to gather and analyse system requirements
Ability to analyse and resolve complex IT issues.
Ability to work effectively with a wide range of specialists, at many levels of seniority, across internal and external organisational barriers.
Ability to research and evaluate new technologies and continually learn new skills
Ability to train, mentor and supervise other IT development staff

Knowledge

Essential criteria

.NET (C#)
ASP.NET
MVC/MVVM
JavaScript / AJAX
jQuery
Microsoft SQL Server
HTML / DHTML / XHTML / XML
CSS
IIS

Desirable criteria

SSAS
HL7
SharePoint
SSIS
Version Control Software
CMS
Mirth
JIRA / Confluence
Microsoft Office Suite

Important note on completion of reference section of Application Form

All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.

Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.