Developer (Front End)

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Seaton Delaval; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK seeks an experienced Frontend Developer to develop secure and scalable solutions using VueJS. The role requires expert-level knowledge and thorough experience in the software development lifecycle, collaborating within an agile team. This position emphasizes technical leadership, quality standards, and mentoring team members. Join an organization focused on innovation and excellent patient care, in one of the UK's best performing NHS trusts.

Qualifications

• Expert-level knowledge of front-end development and VueJS.
• Professional knowledge in software development lifecycle.
• Proven experience as a Frontend developer.

Responsibilities

• Develop secure, scalable front-end solutions using VueJs.
• Work within an agile, cross-functional team.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance.
• Ensure service delivery meets quality standards.
• Facilitate team collaboration and quality improvement.

Skills

Advanced knowledge of modern JavaScript frameworks

Good CSS/style organisation

Knowledge of build tools

Responsive, mobile-first designs

Microservice architecture using REST services

Writing Front End tests

Current UI design patterns and practices

Mentoring/pair-programming

Thorough experience as a Frontend developer

Education

Degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience

Job description

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.

Professional knowledge acquired through degree or equivalent experience along with an in-depth technical and strategic knowledge of software development.

Thorough experience as a Frontend developer.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Operate within an agile, cross-functional team, taking ownership of technical decisions, proactively driving best practices, and championing continuous improvement in software engineering standards, tools, and processes.
• Deliver highly complex and strategic solutions, providing technical leadership and guidance to colleagues, and influencing architectural decisions.
• Ensure service delivery, quality standards, and performance targets are met, contributing to the estimation, planning, and prioritisation of work packages that support organisational objectives.
• Role model compassionate and inclusive leadership, engaging, enabling, and empowering others, using coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement, and facilitating team working and collaboration across teams, departments, and organisational boundaries.

Qualifications & 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.
• Previous experience as a Frontend developer.
• Professional knowledge acquired through degree or equivalent experience.
• Experience as a Frontend developer.

About the Trust

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.

Important: This advert closes on Tuesday 13 Jan 2026.