Job summary
- Main area
- Digital Services
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-7487935JN
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub
- Town
- Seaton Delaval
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Developer (.NET)
NHS AfC: Band 7
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). 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
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. 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 at you will play a crucial role in advancing our technological capabilities to support the delivery of high-quality services within Northumbria NHS Trust. Working in an Agile development team operating in sprints, you will design, develop, test, and maintain innovative software solutions built on the .NET framework deploying in to Azure.
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.
You will be part of the wider development team which has grown substantially over the last 3 years. Northumbria is committed to internal development and embracing modern technologies; working at Northumbria offers a unique and rewarding opportunity to contribute directly to the improvement of healthcare services and patient outcomes.
You will play a crucial part in developing sophisticated software solutions that enhance the efficiency, accuracy, and security of all our systems. Northumbria Healthcare Trust provides a dynamic and collaborative atmosphere where innovation is encouraged and your decisions and actions can see a direct change.
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.
System Analysis and Design:
- Analyse user requirements and business needs to develop technical specifications for software solutions and design solutions accordingly
- Assist with architecting scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems that align with organisational objectives.
Quality Assurance:
- Conduct thorough testing of your work and liaise closely with the QA team to build out test scenarios. Help identify and rectify defects, ensuring high-quality and reliable software prior to passing to the QA team.
- Unit and integration testing play a key role in the implementation of functionality.
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, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? 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, this is the Northumbria Way!
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
- Experience developing RESTful 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
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# and .NET
- Demonstratable experience of writing unit and integration tests
- Experience working with relational data stores (SQL/NoSQL) and knowledge of how to review/improve query performance.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of consuming and modifying CI/CD pipelines
- Experience of developing in a Frontend Framework
- Experience of containerisation (Docker, Container Services, Kubernetes)
- Experience writing infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform, Bicep)
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lloyd Rodrigues Powell
- Job title
- Head of Development
- Email address
- [email protected]
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