Developer (Front End) | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 30 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 January 2026 |
| Location: | Seaton Delaval, NE25 0QJ |
| Company: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7700922/319-7700922JN |
Summary
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
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.
They 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 (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
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.
Previous experience as a Frontend developer
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
This advert closes on Tuesday 13 Jan 2026