Overview

Specialist role Developer

Summary of the work 

This will be to amend, add to or resolve issues of an existing clinical record system that is used within the trust. These changes need to be developed quickly and safely in line with our existing practices and approaches with a view to a release on the 28.09.16

Latest start date 08.08.2016

Region North West England

Organisation the work is for Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust

About the work

Who the specialist will work with  

Project Managers Business Analysts Quality Assurance & Testing System Configuration Programme Leads Infrastructure DBA's

What the specialist will work on 

The end users are a mix of clinicians, administrative staff and support services who need to be able to interact with the system to record appropriate clinical notes, view the latest updates of information from other systems and then be able to create reports from this to provide to commissioners across all the required areas to be upgraded.

Work setup

Address where the work will take place 

The supplier will work remotely, off-site, in the main when developing and uploading into the test (preview) environment, but be expected to be on site for delivery of the upgrades into the live system at the end of June. The site is in Preston, Lancashire.

Working arrangements 

We would expect the supplier to work off site predominantly, however we would expect them to be on site in the run up to and during the release of new functionality and in subsequent days as part of an early life support process.

Security clearance The supplier should have familiarity with the NHS environment and be able to link to Trust systems through the N3 network to ensure secure transfer of any information.

Skills and experience

Essential skills and experience 

• Have experience of working with the Lancashire Care NHS FT clinical systems
• Be able to produce code in JSON
• Be able to first provide developments in the test (preview) system for testing and approval
• Awareness of impacts of front end programming and back end SQL impacts
• Awareness of NHS reporting and audit requirements

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.