Automation Senior Developer

Company Description

Working as a partnership, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this. 

The vision for our single corporate services is to:

• Be an employer of choice for corporate talent, attracting and retaining people who share our values for excellence in care and welcome the opportunity to benefit from the broad range of flexible career and development opportunities we can offer.   
• Improve efficiency through simplified and standardised policies, processes, and systems, drawing on the best from both Trusts.  
• Do things once and reduce any duplication on transactional tasks giving corporate staff the ability to focus on higher value and more diverse activities.  
• Co-invest in the latest digital solutions and standardise our approach, meaning we do things once for both organisations. 
• Improve learning and development opportunities and sharing best practice, upskilling both Trusts.  
• Co-locate teams in purpose-built facilities on the Island and in Portsmouth to enable closer working and sharing.  
• Build resilience for individuals and our teams. 

Job Description

This vacancy is open to employees of Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust only.

Band 7: £47,810 - £54,710

Hours: 37.5 per week

Location: Base location either St Mary's Hospital, Parkhurst Road, Newport, Isle of Wight,PO30 5TG, or Building 4000, Lakeside, North Harbour, Cosham, Portsmouth, PO6 3EN. Across site travel may be required, the frequency will be agreed locally

Job Purpose

• Contributes, as part of the overall team to delivering the organisations IT Development Strategy, meeting the organisations goals and objectives, and improving the quality of the services that it delivers internally and externally.
• Responsible for the quality and technical approach of own work and that tasks are delivered on time.
• Assists with development of specific software product user stories.
• Assists with daily routine support and maintenance of software applications and interfaces.

Job Summary

• Proactively and positively contribute to the successful overall performance of the Trust.
• Deliver excellent levels of customer service to all patients/visitors and staff at the Trust.
• Develop effective ways of working and create strong partnerships and relationships with all stakeholders to support the implementation of the Government’s policies on Health.
• Develop an organisational culture that fosters collaborative working among all staff groups, to ensure a focused commitment to delivering quality services and outcomes.
• Act as an advocate for the Trust & its contribution to the Health Service arena through creating effective partnerships and relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Comply with corporate governance structure in keeping with the principles and standards set out by the Trust. 

Please refer to the full Job description attached. 

Qualifications

• Degree level education/qualification or equivalent in ICT or related field
• Continuous improvement experience
• An understanding of RPA & PowerPlatform Apps best practice delivery
• Experience of system management and support
• RPA & PowerPlatform design experience
• Experience of NHS practices and information

Additional Information

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and Disability, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.