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SCR Development Manager

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

Taunton, TA2 8RX · Taunton, TA1 1HEView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)

Salary

£49,387 to £56,515

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Not specified

Closing date

28 October 2026

9 days left

Job description

Managing a team of Application Developers throughout the development lifecycle and supporting of live customer services. The successful applicant will...

Manage Application Development team members including recruitment, managing leave, performance, dealing with sickness and staff appraisals.

Ensure appropriate controls are in place to manage the product lifecycle including working with the Service Delivery Manager to manage sprints and resource allocation through the running of sprint planning meetings, sprint reviews and daily stand-ups.

Develop and maintain Application Development standards, procedures and processes covering items such as builds, pipelines, releases, repos management, and code reviews, ensuring adherence by the application development team.

Act as liaison between support and development teams to ensure resource allocation is managed appropriately between support operations and sprint development.

Reviewing and improvements of development team activities and working with other SCR teams to re-define and improve development lifecycle processes.

Monitoring time and resource, whilst reporting and analysing information to improve resource utilisation across multiple disciplines.

Working with the head of development and cloud services to define and write technical plans and strategies.

Ensure services delivered meet Service Level Agreement, including managing of resources and prioritisation of workload.

Lead the business to achieve appropriate security certification.

Lead on service improvement for own area of responsibility and work with the business to review appropriate improvement metrics.

Somerset Cancer Register is a unique and very successful NHS software business looking after over 100 Trusts across England. Our products have a good reputation which is a reflection on the quality of our work with customers. We are a small, dynamic and flexible team covering all aspects of software development. We are going through a large modernisation programme with our infrastructure and products, so this is an exciting time to join us.

As an organisation, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust offers employees a wide range of benefits including flexible working, NHS pension scheme, generous annual leave allowance and a commitment to career development.

You will be eligible for our Blue Light Card and a wide range of NHS exclusive shopping & leisure discounts. We are proud of our skilled, diverse workforce and as an inclusive employer we welcome applications from all backgrounds.

Working in Somerset enables you to enjoy the idyllic countryside, areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines whilst still only being a stone's throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from London.

There are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable. Somerset offers the countryside and the cosmopolitan -- there is truly something for everyone!

Qualifications

Essential

  • Degree level or significant experience in a computer related discipline or higher-level management qualification.
  • Evidence of own professional development.

Desirable

  • Post-graduate technical qualifications / training / experience equivalent to at least diploma level.
  • Prince II Management or Agile Project management Qualification.
  • ITIL Foundation
  • Technical programming / database qualifications such as .NET or SQL Server
  • Microsoft Azure Certification
  • Healthcare Integration Qualifications (HL7, FHIR)

Experience

Essential

  • Proven experience of implementing medium to large scale web-based software applications, driven by relational databases.
  • Experience of documentation and reports, using a variety of information sources.
  • Design and development of web-based software applications.
  • At least 2 years' experience of implementing information systems.
  • Providing high-quality customer service.
  • Experience of Agile Software Development approach.

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How to apply

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Provenance

Source

NHS Jobs

First seen

14 October 2026

Last checked

16 October 2026

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About the employer

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Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

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