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SalaryJob Title:Digital Specialist (Software Developer)
Hours: 36 hours (full time)
Job Status: 12 month fixed contract (June 2024 to June 2025)
Location: Home-based with expectation of some travel nationally where required
Salary: £50,311.15 per annum
Closing Date: Thursday 23 May 2024
Skills for Care helps create a well-led, skilled and valued adult social care workforce.
Our practical support helps leaders and managers recruit, develop and lead their staff, retaining them from entry level right through to senior leadership and management roles.
Find out more by taking a look at our website www.skillsforcare.org.uk.
Skills for Care has an exciting opportunity for a Software Developer to join our Workforce Intelligence team. The role is full time, for a period of 12 months to cover maternity leave. The role is home-based.
The successful candidate will join our multi-disciplinary team working on our Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS) service. The service is a GDS assessed service, now in live running. The team follows Agile user-centered methods, working in 2-week sprints to develop and deploy as often as possible.
You will be part of a team that provides a valued service to the care sector and to the Department of Health and Social Care.
With experience of working in an Agile environment within a multi-disciplinary team. You should have experience with the most technologies in our tech stack:
- Angular and Typescript for the front end
- SASS and the GDS design system for styling
- NodeJS with an Express API for the backend
- Postgres database
- Terraform for Infrastructure as Code
Our code is open source and we use Git and GitHub for source control
If you are interested in this role please visit the website for the full job description.
At Skills for Care we are passionate about our workforce becoming more representative of the society we support, this includes all equality characteristics such as age, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief. This lived experience from a diverse group of people helps us in all the work that we do and ultimately supports the social care sector to provide the best quality care. We recognize that sometimes an individual’s impairment can mean that some adjustments to our recruitment and selection process would be welcomed. Please contact our HR team to discuss any adjustments that you may need.
A DBS check is not required for these roles. Candidates will be asked to disclose any unspent criminal convictions as part of the recruitment process however this will not form part of the initial application stage.
