Development Consultant (Lead Software Developer)

Working as a partnership, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this.

The single corporate service is delivered across both organisation. You may be based at either IWT or PHU and individuals may be required to undertake business travel between sites. For leaders managing staff across multi-site locations, you will need to be visible and provide in person leadership. The arrangements and frequency will be agreed locally.

NHS Band 8A: Salary £57,528 - £64,750 per annum

Full Time: 37.5 hours per week

Fixed Term Contract: 23 months

Location: Your base location will either be Isle of Wight NHS Trust offices (postcode: PO30 5TG) or Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust offices (postcode: PO6 3EN),

Remote working: Up to 2 days a week.

The SCS has embarked on a journey to share digital solutions across the trusts to improve patient outcomes and the experience of delivering care for our patients.

Whilst we bridge this digital gap in the short term, our long term objective is to share a single EPR across the 4 acute trusts to provide a combined vision and strategic goals of:

• Isle of Wight NHS Trust (IWT)
• Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust (PHU)
• Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (HHFT)
• University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust (UHS)

The Trusts will work together with their clinical and departmental experts alongside regional digital colleagues to procure and implement a joint EPR over the coming years .

Job purpose

Act as the lead developer for specified software products, feature developments and the integration of Trust systems, data and medical devices. Technical lead for the delivery of software developments, integration and sharing of data between applications utilising Agile methodologies.

Job summary

• Subject Matter Expert across a range of in-house technical solutions
• Lead the delivery of software solutions, from requirements right through to implementation
• Support/mentor junior developers
• Design, build, test and deploy new features for in-house applications to align with IWT’s requirements (C# and .NET)
• Risk assess the change impact, and manage changes through ITIL Change Management processes
• Engage with product owners to understand requirements and convert into User Stories as part of the Agile process
• Stay current on new digital technologies and maintain an understanding of Trust-wide applications
• Experience with Healthcare Integration is desirable.

For further details please refer to enclosed Job Description.

Technology stack

• In-house applications
  • C#
  • MS SQL
  • .NET Core
  • ASP.NET MVC 5
  • React
  • ASP.NET Web Forms
  • Git
  • Azure DevOps
• Integration engine (desirable)
  • InterSystems Health Connect
  • ObjectScript
• Applicants must have experience in either application development or integration development (both is desirable)

Essential

• Degree level qualification or 5+ years’ experience working with either software development or integration experience, with experience of a lead developer role
• Evidence of continuing professional development

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.

For more information, please see our People and OD Strategy 2026

Smoke Free Policy:

All of our hospitals operate a strict no smoking policy. Smoking cigarettes or tobacco products is not allowed on any of the grounds or in any of the buildings run by us. This applies to patients, staff, carers and visitors to Trust premises.

Our goal is to improve the health and wellbeing of everyone we care for and, by making sure that our NHS services are smoke-free, we benefit the health of people who use our services as well as the health of the people who work for us.