Automation Developer

Integrated Care System; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust is seeking an Automation Developer to enhance their automation capabilities. The role involves designing and creating automation solutions, managing code, and providing guidance to stakeholders. Candidates should hold a relevant degree and have experience with Blue Prism technology. This position offers an opportunity to work on improving clinical and administrative pathways in healthcare.

Qualifications

• Specialist knowledge of managing IT systems required.
• Experience with automation technology is essential.
• Proven experience with Blue Prism Cloud within NHS.

Responsibilities

• Support design and creation of automation solutions.
• Manage automation code to automate approved processes.
• Provide specialist advice to stakeholders for automation.

Skills

Good analytical and problem-solving skills

Strong communication skills

Ability to work independently and collaboratively

Ability to embrace and drive change

Ability to organize and prioritize workload

Education

Relevant degree or equivalent qualification

Thoughtonomy (Blue Prism Cloud) practitioner status

Additional Blue Prism Certification

Tools

Blue Prism RPA

Microsoft Power Apps

Microsoft Flow (Automate)

Job description

Go back Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Automation Developer

The closing date is 10 August 2025

Candidates who applied for this role within the last 5 weeks, please DOT NOT re apply.

The Trust has a Centre for Automation which seeks to realise the benefits of automation in transforming administrative and clinical pathways to improve our services. The Automation Developer will be a key part of this team.

The Trust's Automation programme aims to fundamentally enhance and update our model of care. We aspire to continually enhance the quality of care we deliver, the outcomes our patients achieve as a result, and their experience of our services. We must meanwhile future-proof the organisation and protect our world-leading services and research by making care delivery as efficient as possible. To do so we must leverage our existing clinical and administrative resources whilst taking advantage of emerging healthcare technologies.

The Automation programme has already developed capability in Robotic Process Automation and low-code platforms such as Power Automate. The postholder will be essential to further expand our capacity to improve clinical and administrative pathways.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will support the design and creation of automation solutions and for the integration of these into and between existing systems. They will be able to provide specialist advice and guidance to relevant stakeholders. The post-holder will develop and adapt automation code to automate approved processes. They will also manage elements of the programme for example preparing documentation of solutions and coding.

Participating in all aspects of the robotic automation and system integration, including solution development, authoring controls and standards, documentation, software tools, design, programming and technical implementation across the entire automation development lifecycle including the creation of complex functional specifications, application programming across a range of technology platforms, systems integration, testing and deployment, the postholder will play a role as a subject matter expert and a source of training, support and development for others.

Identifying requirements for new automation and integration applications, the postholder will input into the automation lifecycle and development programme of work by recommending future developments and ensuring that automation is developed in a cost-effective and professional manner, which meets the trust's operational needs whilst maintaining system security and data integrity.

About us

The Delivery team is part of the Centre for Innovation, Transformation, and Improvement (CITI).CITI was founded in 2021 under the Deputy Chief Executive (DCE). The DCE is the Executive Director responsible for leading and implementing the Trust's strategy for innovation and improvement, which aims to develop an ecosystem that encourages the acceleration of new knowledge and capabilities and learn from best practices globally, to deliver improvements in patient care, research and education at scale. CITI co-locates multi-faceted teams to provide the focal point for clinical innovators and services seeking to translate ideas or early stage products or improvements into clinical practice. The Centre aims both to incubate and deliver innovations and improvement ideas, projects and programmes, working alongside and for its clinical customers for the benefit of patients.

CITI builds on industry best practice in taking innovation from concept to practice. It aims to foster a culture of innovation and improvement throughout the Trust, and acts as the intellectual home of our core change methodologies.

CITI aims to improve the adoption of new clinical technologies with an agile operational model, delivering a data-driven approach to evaluating performance of novel technologies, creating a sustainable culture of innovation in clinical and operational workforce, and to build enduring partnerships with academia, industry, investors, our communities and other key Stakeholders.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the Person Specification and Job Descriptions documents for full information of the role.

Interview dates to be confirmed.

Person Specification

Education/Qualification

• Relevant degree or equivalent qualification or significant experience of working at degree level
• Thoughtonomy (Blue Prism Cloud) practitioner status or equivalent
• Additional Blue Prism Certification or other RPA qualification
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Experience/Knowledge

• Specialist knowledge of managing IT systems acquired through degree level or equivalent qualification/experience
• Experience of working with automation technology
• Knowledge of managing a whole product lifecycle encompassing development, testing & support
• Good awareness of change management
• Knowledge of documenting solutions and system dependencies
• Use of IT systems (e.g., Word, Excel, Outlook) - standard keyboard skills
• Understanding of the NHS and current agenda
• Knowledge of service improvements and project management
• Understanding of risk management and governance
• Proven experience of working with Blue Prism Cloud (Thoughtonomy) technology to deliver complex healthcare automations within the NHS.
• Expert knowledge of Blue Prism RPA, iOCR (ABBY & Decipher), Blue Prism Cloud Cognitive Tools (language translation, sentiment analysis, keyword classification, interact e-forms, chatbot and orchestrator.
• Experience of developing solutions using Microsoft Power Apps and Microsoft Flow (Automate)
• NHS specific IT system experience
• Experience of facilitating change in practice to improve services
• Working knowledge of all areas of the hospital in both corporate and clinical areas
• Working experience in system development and implementation projects

Skills

• Good analytical and problem-solving skills - ability to analyse complex data/information and make judgements/draw conclusions
• Strong communication skills both written and verbal - able to communicate complex and sensitive information
• Ability to work independently, using own initiative and collaboratively as part of a team
• Ability to embrace and drive change
• Ability to organise and prioritise own workload and adjust plans as required, working flexibly to meet the demands of the role
• Ability to provide specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales

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.

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust