This role will be a secondment role with a development path outlined to allow the candidate to gain knowledge and experience as a Development Team Lead.
This is an exciting opportunity for an individual to work with Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust's Digital Development and Integration Team.
The Development Team consists of technical staff specialising in support, security, maintenance, development or management of the Trusts integration architecture and associated platforms.
The Development Team Lead is a key part of the Development team, the post will act as a lead within the team for systems integration, interface and development management or support. The post holder provides design, support or advice to the Senior Digital Development Lead and development team on current or new system integrations, interfaces or developments
This position offers the opportunity for hybrid working with 2-3 days on site / home working depending on the business need.
Candidates will be expected to work their 37.5 hours flexibly to meet business requirements. Evenings, nights and weekends work may also be expected as part of a safer and more effective service delivery. Occasional on call duties may be required.
This role is responsible for the day to day line management of specialist technical development staff, this includes 1:1s, PDPs and disciplinary matters as delegated by the Development team manager. The Development Team Lead is responsible for leading a team providing systems integration or development support covering a variety of technologies and responsibilities, this includes: -
Support and maintenance
Daily and scheduled tasks
Essential patches or bug fixes
Messaging Standards such as HL7, XML, JSON
Integration Engine support, maintenance and alerting
Highly complex issue or problem resolution
Root cause analysis
Licences, contracts and Vendor management
Attend scoping meetings for integration and development requirements
We’re looking for someone with strong development, organisational and communication skills, as well as excellent attention to detail. You’ll have experience of IT within Healthcare or in a large IT department with a large system portfolio,
This is a very team-focused environment, so you’ll need to be adaptable and enjoy team work too. High levels of personal resilience is a must as this is a very fast paced and at times challenging environment. Any experience of team leadership/supervision is extremely advantageous.
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.
Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.
Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.
The Job Description and Person Specification are attached to this job, please review for the full details and responsibilities
The Development team lead is a source of knowledge and advice for project teams. This includes providing expertise on licensing, systems integration, ongoing support, resource projections or costs, timelines and advising on business case development.
The post holder will take a lead role in specialist projects such as upgrades to key systems that impact across clinical and non-clinical areas, this includes downtime to be agreed with multiple stakeholders.
The Development team lead will support the programme teams in the planning of projects and liaise or work alongside application vendors, internal stakeholders and other technical experts to do so.
