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Location

Portsmouth, Hampshire | United Kingdom

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Job description

The IT Department has 100+ staff with a broad range of skills and experiences. We pride ourselves on our culture of ‘working together’ for the benefit of patients.

The IT Department is located less than a mile from Fratton train station, in a recently refurbished building with great facilities and free parking. The adjacent retail park includes a number of fast-food restaurants, a supermarket and several gyms.

Job Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work in the software development and integration team at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, acting as an IT Development Specialist.

This role will see the successful candidate become a key team player in shaping the in-house software developments at Portsmouth Hospitals University Trust. Working alongside a high performing, friendly and supportive team, you will develop web and integration solutions that enable information sharing between clinical and corporate systems. Your work will directly impact day to day patient care through programmes and projects which are all delivered using the AGILE software development lifecycle. 

We're looking for an enthusiastic developer who is looking to make a real start in a career in Software Developing and who enjoys a challenge. The role will provide many opportunities to bring new ideas into the team but also, gain valuable training, support and knowledge from our talented team of experienced developers along the way.

Working closely with our Product Owners, you will have outstanding communication skills and solid programming experience. You should be well versed in object-oriented programming concepts and familiar with SOLID design principles.

You will have the opportunity to:

• Assist in requirements identification and producing specifications
• Support the creation and maintenance of technical documentation 
• Contribute and adhere to coding standards, best practices, and procedures
• Lead on some of our products and programmes
• Collaborate with our multidisciplinary Scrum team
• Influence our technical design strategy

What can we offer you?

• Deep working atmosphere
• Access to Plural sight
• Flexible home and office working
• The chance to work in an experienced software development team that takes pride in their work. 
• Staff benefits which include excellent pension scheme, childcare vouchers, gym / swimming pool membership, cycle to work scheme, access to our beach hut and many more!

This is a great opportunity for someone with the right attitude to gain a wealth of new experience and have a positive impact on the local community that we serve. 

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree level qualification or equivalent in IT or related field

Experience

Essential

• Experience of software development

Desirable

• Experience of system management and support
• Database and data warehouse design experience
• Experience of NHS practices and information

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Strong customer service skills
• Able to set clear and appropriate objectives for self to meet overall goals
• Ability to manage problems in sometimes stressful environments
• Excellent planning and time-management skills, able to clearly manage priorities
• Knowledge of computer languages
• Knowledge of computer program design methods and techniques
• Excellent written communication and documentation
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to influence and persuade staff in all roles
• Good knowledge of data protection and information security/governance issues

Personal Qualities

• Service-orientated, customer-focused
• Methodical, logical and numerate
• Self-motivated, enthusiastic and confident
• Skills in working with multi-disciplinary teams
• Ability to act and ensure delivery
• Ability to demonstrate confidentiality and trustworthiness
• Flexible approach to work outside normal office hours, when and if the need arises

Additional Information

Projects we are currently working on include:

• Micro service architecture expansion
• Modernising our front end with React
• Web application development

Our core technologies include:

• C#
• CSS
• .NET
• JavaScript
• SQL Server
• Bootstrap
• ASP.NET
• MVC
• Asp.NET core
• HTML
• Octopus Deploy
• React

We understand that you may not be familiar with the specific technologies that we are currently using – however if you can demonstrate excellent analysis and problem-solving skills, we will help you learn. 

Whilst we have older technologies still embedded within our applications, we are continuously working to modernise our estate.

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.

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