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About the Organisation:
National Services Scotland (NSS) is a national NHS Board operating right at the heart of NHSScotland providing invaluable support and advice at a strategic and operational level. NSS supports customers to deliver their services more efficiently and effectively and we offer shared services on a national scale using best-in-class systems and standards. Our priority is always the same – to improve the health and well-being of the people of Scotland. We do this by working in partnership with colleagues across Health and Social Care to deliver fit for purpose solutions and systems, delivering high quality services that help our stakeholders to free up resources so they can be re-invested into essential services. Supporting the join-up of Health and Social care through digitisation and inter-operability is an important part of the role.
The post:
NSS Digital & Security are seeking to recruit a Principal Engineer / Senior Developer to join the Gateway Solutions Team. You will be joining the team at an exciting time as we modernise and enhance this widely used and respected national system.
The candidate:
You will be an experienced full-stack developer using Microsoft and Open Source Tools, including ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core, IIS, SQL Server, XML, XLST, SOAP, Javascript and REACT. You should be adept at both consuming and producing APIs using either SOAP or REST services. You will be responsible for the design and delivery of key system components and used to working in a small team environment. Ideally you will have experience of Health IT systems and standards such as FHIR, IHE or Open EHR.
You will also have excellent communication, inter-personal and leadership skills and be able to work as a member of an established team, liaising with a variety of stakeholders within and external to NSS. You will be able to demonstrate excellent organisational skills, exhibiting a high degree of accuracy whilst providing development expertise and experience of working on large scale national IT systems. You will be educated to degree level (or equivalent) with significant experience in development methodologies in large scale system solutions. You should have the ability to work across multiple projects with competing priorities, managing the conflicting demands that this entails.
Location and working pattern:
Based at any NSS location throughout Scotland, albeit currently working from home.
Benefits:
Our benefits package includes pension scheme, comprehensive range of work life balance policies, occupational health services, learning resource centres and discounted leisure, financial and shopping benefits.
Further information:
For an informal discussion on the post, please contact Iain Hammerton, Gateway Solutions Manager at iain.hammerton@nhs.scot.
Further information on NSS is available from: https://www.nss.nhs.scot/
Closing date for completed applications is midnight on Friday 24th June.
Please note that the majority of correspondence is sent by e-mail only, so please check your e-mail regularly (including junk folders).
We welcome applications from all candidates, however in line with Scottish Government requirement we will be giving priority consideration to Test and Protect core staff who meet the essential criteria for the role.
NHS National Services Scotland is an equal opportunities employer and as committed participant in the disability confident scheme, guarantees to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies.