Developer (Front End)

Northumbria Healthcare Nhs Foundation Trust; Seaton Delaval; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in the UK is seeking a Front-End Developer to design secure and innovative solutions using VueJS. You will work in an agile team, taking ownership of technical decisions while ensuring quality standards are met. The role also requires mentoring team members and demonstrating leadership within the organization. This position offers extensive healthcare benefits and opportunities for personal development, supporting a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Benefits

Extensive staff health and well-being programme

Flexible working opportunities

Generous annual leave and pension scheme

Professional development training programmes

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience with VueJS and front-end development.
• Proven ability to manage responsive designs and apply UI design patterns.
• Expertise in software development lifecycles.

Responsibilities

• Develop secure, scalable front-end solutions aligned with clinical strategies.
• Lead technical decisions and promote best practices.
• Ensure quality standards and performance targets are met.

Skills

Front-end development expertise

VueJS

Modern JavaScript frameworks

CSS/style organisation

Responsive design

REST services

Front End testing

UI design patterns

Mentoring/pair-programming

Education

Degree or equivalent experience in Software Development

Tools

Protractor

Karma

Jasmine

Job description

In summary, the post holder is responsible for developing secure, scalable, and innovative front‑end solutions using modern frameworks such as VueJs, ensuring alignment with the Trust's Digital Clinical Strategy. Operating within an agile, cross‑functional team, the post holder will take ownership of technical decisions, proactively drive best practices, and champion continuous improvement in software engineering standards, tools, and processes.

The post holder will be responsible for delivering highly complex and strategic solutions, providing technical leadership and guidance to colleagues, and influencing architectural decisions.

The role requires autonomy in ensuring service delivery, quality standards, and performance targets are met, while contributing to the estimation, planning, and prioritisation of work packages that support organisational objectives.

To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which engages, enables and empowers others, uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement, and facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under‑represented in our workforce as well as other under‑represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.

Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre‑employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.

Make sure to read the 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!

Certificate of Sponsorship

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

Key Responsibilities

The post holder must demonstrate expert‑level knowledge of front‑end development, including VueJS architecture and the wider software development lifecycle, underpinned by theory and professional experience.

Qualifications / Experience

• Professional knowledge acquired through degree or equivalent experience along with an in‑depth technical and strategic knowledge of software development
• Provision of thorough experience as a Frontend developer, including prior experience
• Advanced knowledge of modern JavaScript frameworks, preference is Vuejs
• Good CSS/style organisation
• Knowledge of build tools
• Experience with responsive, mobile first designs
• Developing on top of a Microservice architecture using REST services
• Writing Front End tests (protractor, karma, Jasmine or similar)
• Solid grounding in current UI design patterns, practices and frameworks
• Capable of mentoring/pair‑programming with other members of the team

We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare.

Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It's open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.

We are proud to be one of the country's top performing NHS trusts - rated 'outstanding' overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people's homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise - a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people's lives, such as education, employment and the economy.

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

Benefits

• Extensive staff health and well‑being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
• Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
• A range of flexible working opportunities
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
• Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
• Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank