Application Developer
South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust
The closing date is 07 July 2026
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a skilled and experienced developer to work on a range of applications, and process automation. This post plays a key role in enhancing the trust’s digital capabilities, supporting clinicians and other corporate staff to carry out their functions.
The role requires 3-5+ years’ experience of working in a development role, creating new applications, process automation, and diagnosing errors quickly to resolve any issues that might occur in existing deployments.
Career Progression pathways and development opportunities:
We are committed to getting the very best out of our staff and support staff in their career aspirations. We have career pathways available, where you will be able to develop your skills and build on your experience to progress into other roles across different specialties.
Main duties of the job
The post sits within the Digital Applications team, who are responsible for maintaining, and configuring the trust’s main clinical systems, as well as developing new innovative digital products. The team has 3 main areas, Support, Configuration, and Development which work together to provide a comprehensive digital applications service.
We work closely with the trust’s CCIO, Project Management Office, Service Improvement Leads, operational managers, suppliers, and other stakeholders to ensure requirements are correctly identified, and introduced into service delivery.
Daily, you can expect to work on a range of tasks, supporting existing products, developing new applications, and process automations using a range of coding languages and frameworks.
Job responsibilities
Autonomy
Works under general direction within a clear framework of accountability. Exercises substantial personal responsibility and autonomy. Plans own work to meet given objectives and processes.
Influence
Influences customers, suppliers, and partners at account level. May have some responsibility for the work of others and for the allocation of resources. Participates in external activities related to own specialism. Makes decisions which influence the success of projects and team objectives. Collaborates regularly with team members, users, and customers. Engages to ensure that user needs are being met throughout.
Complexity
Work includes a broad range of complex technical or professional activities, in a variety of contexts. Investigates, defines, and resolves complex issues.
Knowledge
Has a thorough understanding of recognised generic industry bodies of knowledge and specialist bodies of knowledge as necessary. Has gained a thorough knowledge of the domain of the organisation. Can apply the knowledge effectively in unfamiliar situations and actively maintains own knowledge and contributes to the development of others. Rapidly absorbs new information and applies it effectively. Maintains an awareness of developing practices and their application and takes responsibility for driving own development.
Business Skills
Communicates fluently, orally and in writing, and can present complex information to both technical and non-technical audiences. Plans, schedules, and monitors work to meet time and quality targets. Facilitates collaboration between stakeholders who share common objectives. Selects appropriately from applicable standards, methods, tools, and applications. Fully understands the importance of security to own work and the operation of the organisation. Seeks specialist security knowledge or advice when required to support own work or work of immediate colleagues.
Person Specification
Experience
- Developing a range of applications and automated processes utilising industry standard frameworks, and methodologies for business-critical functions.
- Monitoring, identifying, and resolving issues covering a wide range of processes and applications.
- Reviewing code to remove potential issues, enhance performance & security, and reduce maintenance.
- Taking innovative approaches to problem solving and/or devising inventive and creative solutions.
Training & Qualifications
- Educated to degree or equivalent level of experience working as a developer.
- Evidence of continuing development
Knowledge & Skills
- Proficient in a range of programming languages, common frameworks, and libraries.
- Proficient in organised and documented sets of techniques, and proven methods, intended to facilitate the structured and open development of applications. A DevOps approach may be taken where development and operational staff work together.
- Proficient in software that enables the user to capture, create, populate and manipulate data structures and where appropriate unstructured data.
- Familiar with the graphical human/computer interfaces that facilitate effective communication between human operator and computer.
- Knowledge of the IT/IS infrastructure and the IT applications and service processes used within own organisation, including those associated with sustainability and efficiency.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Unless expressly stated in the job advert the role is not subject to sponsorship, please be advised that all offers of employment are subject to evidence of right to work in the UK
£55,524 to £62,652 a year per annum inclusive of outer London HCAS
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