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Job reference: 068706
Salary: Band 6 (£33,072 - £40,736)
Job closing date: 24/09/2021
Job Type: Administrative Services
Location: Flexible
Employment type: Fixed-term or Secondment
Hours Per Week: 37.5
Job posted date: 10/09/2021
Employer (NHS Board): NHS Education for Scotland
Department: Development

Job Advert

Fixed term/ secondment opportunity until 31st March 2022

SLA or secondment only for NHS staff in the first instance*


Flexible Location: NES is a remote friendly employer supporting office, remote and hybrid working.  We’re happy to talk about how you want to work.


Who We Are

NHS Education for Scotland (NES) is an education and training body and a special health board within NHS Scotland, with responsibility of developing and delivering education and training for the healthcare workforce in Scotland.  The NES Digital Group develop and lead a programme of work and services that support the corporate functions that allow NES to work and deliver its strategic objectives. 


What You'll Do

We have an exciting opportunity for a skilled ASP.NET/C# Web Developer to join our team. You will play a key role in a project which will transform the way digital services are delivered within NHS Scotland, using cutting edge technologies.

In addition to your salary and strong benefit package (great pension, good holidays), you will enjoy flexible working, including time to work on ideas that interest you in a friendly, collaborative atmosphere.

What You'll Bring

It is vital that you are an enthusiastic developer with a real passion for using and improving your skills and knowledge to help produce top quality web applications on a large scale in an agile environment. In addition to technical skills, you must be able to work well as part of a team, feel confident interacting with people and can work using your initiative.

Essential skills and experience will include but are not restricted to:

  • Experience developing web applications using .NET technologies (C#, ASP.NET, MVC, Entity Framework/NHibernate, SQL Server etc.)
  • HTML, CSS and JavaScript
  • Web services, especially Web API
  • Some experience working across the full software development lifecycle in an Agile environment.

Desirable skills and experience will include:

  • Continuous Integration and Deployment using TeamCity/Azure Devops or similar
  • Cloud technologies, such as MS Azure or AWS

Full details of the skills and experience we are looking for can be found in the Person Specification for this role.

If this opportunity is of interest and you would like to find out more please contact: tom.reeve@nes.scot.nhs.uk


*Applicants who wish to apply on a secondment basis are strongly encouraged to discuss this with their current employer at the earliest opportunity.

We actively encourage applicants from a range of backgrounds, regardless of gender, age, religion, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief


https://www.careers.nhs.scot/about/who-we-are/

If you have any queries regarding the application portal or the recruitment process, please contact us at:  NES HR Recruitment: recruitment.hr@nes.scot.nhs.uk​​​​​​​

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