Software Development Industry Placement

About a Software Development Industry Placements

We have a fantastic opportunity for you to spend your industry placement in software development with us. You'll join a team in our national delivery centre where you will contribute to solutions that really help our users and create significant value and opportunities for clinicians and patients across the whole of England.

Software lies at the heart of our daily lives. Many of our interactions are now through applications and services. The quality, take-up and efficiency of these interactions is massively influenced by well-designed software. This is an opportunity to join NHS Digital and help write software to be transformative for services across health and care, be they national systems or those targeted at specific areas and users. You will join teams from across the organisation, learning from highly motivated subject matter experts and contribute to our successful deliveries.

How we work:

• Multi-functional end-to-end development teams comprising of business analysts, developers and testers: you would join one of these teams
• Agile development approach

• Open Source and commercial technologies
• Value-driven to solve real user problems

You won't be on your own! You'll be working with other trainees, both new to the role like yourself, and those who have been on previous training schemes. Along with the wider team, a career manager and community of practice your support network couldn't be better for getting your career off to a great start.

Placement Students will start with NHS Digital on 9th September 2019.

About you

Candidates will need to be undertaking a degree in Computer Sciences, STEM or a course where software development forms a key part and have:

• Passion, drive and high levels of enthusiasm for new challenges
• Self-motivation and a desire to succeed as part of a team
• A commitment to excel in a demanding and highly rewarding role

Technical Skills / Experience

• Application development, ideally using Java, .NET or PHP
• SQL / relational databases

• Web-development (HTML, Javascript, CSS)
• Test automation development
• Development tools (source control tools, build tools, etc)

About us

We are the national information and technology partner to the health and care system. Our task is to build and run excellent digital products and services that NHS and care staff across the country can rely on every day. We have proven expertise in delivering large scale technology infrastructure and work with our NHS partners to ensure the technology we build is adopted quickly, safely and effectively, bringing about maximum benefits for patients.

We power the research that is developing new ways of tackling disease and fully support the role the Government wants the NHS to play in keeping the UK at the forefront of life sciences research.

We are proud of what we have achieved and our amazing people, many of whom have deservedly received public recognition in forums ranging from Women in IT awards to our own Queen's Honours List.

This is a chance to be part of an organisation that makes a real difference on a national scale.

What we offer

In addition to a competitive salary with planned, transparent progression you can look forward to the following benefits:

• 27 days annual leave entitlement increasing with service
• Buy and sell annual leave scheme
• 14% contribution to your NHS pension
• Flexible working opportunities
• A range of NHS Discounts covering, for example, shops, restaurants, gym, mobile phones, and insurance
• Season ticket loan

NHS Digital values and respects the diversity of its employees and aims to recruit a workforce which reflects our diverse communities.

Roles at NHS Digital are subject to a basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service following an acceptance of an offer of employment. Basic checks provide details of convictions and conditional cautions that are considered to be unspent under the terms of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

What happens next

Following successful application, you will be invited to complete online ability tests and video interviews.

Assessment Centres will then take place in December 2018 and February 2019.

This vacancy will close to new applications when a sufficient number have been received, which means applications are accepted on a first come, first served basis.