Applications Specialist

Job overview

As part of the Digital Healthcare team, Applications have an exciting opportunity to recruit an Applications Specialist. The successful applicant will be part of a team who are responsible for the delivery and maintenance of corporate and clinical applications to support safe and effective patient care whilst delivering the digital strategy.

Within the team you will be supported by Senior Applications Specialists. This role involves day to day support of the applications including incident management, request fulfilment, monitoring, change and release management and decommissioning. Another key part of this role is to make proactive improvements to our applications and making use of the functionality available. Being able to communicate effectively with users and suppliers is an essential part of this role.

This is a busy role so we are looking for someone who is highly organised, motivated and proactive and can cope under pressure to help us to deliver an excellent service.

Main duties of the job

This role involves:

• Supporting the full lifecycle of applications, from design and implementation to decommissioning for technical and configuration elements
• Implementation of application configuration and delivery mechanisms
• Application testing including technical and functional elements
• Maintenance including upgrades and patching
• Incident management and request fulfilment
• Delivery of projects and significant work

The post holder will gain in-depth knowledge of the applications used in the Trust and an understanding of the tools used for their delivery. To deliver and support applications, a comprehensive working knowledge of the Trust and services within is essential. They will be responsible for the day to day support and delivery of the applications and will be part of a team committed to deliver customer excellence.

This is a busy role so we are looking for we are looking for someone who is highly organised, motivated, proactive and can cope under pressure to help us to deliver an excellent service.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

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Disclosure and Barring Service:

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.

The cost of the DBS must be met by the successful candidate(s) through salary deduction. DBS charges are as follows if applicable to the post:

Standard Check: £21.50 + Administration cost of £6.50 = £28.00. Deducted from salary over following 4 months or one off payment.

Enhanced Check: £49.50 + administration cost of £6.50 = £56.00. Deducted from salary over following 4 months or one off payment.

NCIC can offer successful future employees the following benefits:

27-day holiday scheme rising to 33 after 10 years

Flexible working Scheme

NHS Discounts*

Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work*

Excellent opportunities for development*

Competitive NHS Pension scheme

Vivup is a free, confidential counselling and information service to assist with personal or work-related problems

*Subject to eligibility

Important Information

Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.

If sufficient response is received this post could be closed earlier than the specified closing date, please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is considered.

Candidates who have been successfully shortlisted for interview will be asked via an email notification to log on to their Trac account to select an interview time. This will usually be within 2 weeks of the closing date.