Senior Automation Developer | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 13 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £56,276 - £63,176 inc HCA |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 April 2026 |
| Location: | London, SE1 7NJ |
| Company: | Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7865427/196-COF11093-T |
Summary
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 Senior 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 with Blue Prism Cloud and low-code platforms such as Power Automate. The postholder will be essential to further expand our capacity to improve clinical and administrative pathways.
Interview date TBC.
The postholder will lead the design, development and strategic advancement of automation solutions that enhance the efficiency, accuracy and reliability of clinical and non‑clinical services across the Trust. As a senior technical specialist within a multidisciplinary digital team, the postholder will take ownership of complex automation initiatives, translating operational and service transformation needs into scalable, secure and resilient automated workflows aligned with NHS digital and information governance standards.
The postholder will contribute to the delivery of high‑quality automation throughout the full development lifecycle, including detailed requirements analysis, process optimisation, solution architecture, coding, testing, deployment and ongoing enhancement. They will provide expert technical leadership in automation technologies.
Acting as a senior subject matter expert, the postholder will contribute to the Trust’s digital and automation strategy, advising on future capabilities, emerging technologies and service‑wide improvement opportunities. They will ensure that automation solutions are robust, scalable and compliant with cybersecurity, data quality and governance frameworks. The role requires significant autonomy, strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, and the ability to lead development activity while supporting colleagues and stakeholders to embed automation as a key enabler of safe, effective and sustainable patient care.
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.
Please refer to the job description and person specification attached in this advert for full information about this role.
This advert closes on Wednesday 25 Mar 2026