Recruitment Pack: Delivery Team Lead

Recruitment Pack: Delivery Team Lead

About SCSLhealth

SCSLhealth is the UK market leader for anticoagulation clinical decision support software in the NHS primary care sector.

At SCSLhealth we are passionate about patient outcomes.

We know that technology has a vital role to play in the future of healthcare, which is why we focus on innovation, craftsmanship and collaboration to develop products which enhance and simplify the management of long term conditions.

We work alongside providers and patients to co-produce and deliver relevant solutions to the challenges they face, with the vision to improve outcomes and increase choice for patients.

We are an expanding, friendly, informal company based in a modern, spacious office at Tolvaddon Energy Park, Camborne, Cornwall.

Recruitment process

Please read the job and person specifications enclosed with this document. Please also complete the application form and return it with an optional CV to by the deadline.

Please note that CVs received without a fully completed application form will not be considered.

Applications from overseas candidates will only be considered if they already have a valid UK work visa.

Applications will be reviewed after the closing date and a short list of candidates will be selected for interview at our Camborne office.

Those shortlisted will be asked to visit our office informally to meet and talk to members of staff that are available and spend the day working with the product delivery team. The purpose of this is to help interviewees better understand us and hopefully to make the interview more relaxed.

If selected you will be asked to bring the following original documents (photocopies will not be accepted) to the interview:

·  Proof of identity (e.g. a valid passport)

·  Eligibility to work in the UK

·  Proof of qualifications

Job Description

Job Title: Delivery Team Lead

Workbase: 1 North Crofty, Tolvaddon Energy Park, Camborne, TR14 0HX

(Note: The Company Office location may change from time to time.)

Line Manager: Technical Development Manager

Responsible for: Software developers & Test analysts

Main Purpose of Job:

To work as part of an agile development team to ensure effective, efficient and on time delivery of software at SCSLhealth. You will provide technical and team leadership through coaching, facilitation and mentorship.

As a member of the product team you should:

·  Take full responsibility for your areas of work.

·  Look for continuous improvement and innovative ideas in all that you do.

·  Contribute to the strategic development of the company.

·  Embed the company values and culture in everything you do so that these are carried throughout the business.

Environment:

SCSLhealth operate from Camborne within a professional and friendly environment focused on clear commercial targets.

Functional links with:

Technical Development Manager, Product Owner, User Experience Analyst, Sales Team, Marketing Team, Project Management Team, Customer Services Team, Product Discovery Team.

Duties and Responsibilities.

To take responsibility for and deliver the following:

1.  Undertake line management duties for the software developers and test analysts including, but not limited to, regular appraisals, developmental activities, training assessments, recruitment and performance management in line with the agreed company policies.

2.  Work with the product owner to maintain the release and sprint backlogs and guide team development efforts towards successful project and software delivery.

3.  Organise and facilitate team retrospectives to identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team.

4.  Ensure effective collaboration within the team and ensure that support and technical problems are dealt with.

5.  Ensure high standards of software quality is maintained by ensuring the team adhere to good practices with the software delivery.

6.  Support and mentor new members in the delivery team with technical implementation and the process.

7.  Record and report on allocation of team resource for sprints and releases.

8.  Work with colleagues, customers and business partners to understand and detail user stories and to gather acceptance criteria and perform acceptance tests for those stories.

9.  To work with the team to estimate effort on user stories.

10.  Work with Test Analysts to deliver acceptance criteria.

11.  To write, test and maintain computer programs and associated documentation to specifications.

12.  To liaise with clients, business partners and others in the development and deployment of programs.

13.  To work within SCSLhealth’s test, design and development standards.

General:

1.  Undertake Continuous Professional Development, to keep up to date with the latest techniques and practices of your profession and the commercial environment in which SCSLhealth operates.

2.  Handle client complaints in a calm, non-confrontational and courteous manner. Take responsibility for ensuring follow-up actions are taken and that in the case of a formal complaint the Regulatory Compliance Officer is promptly informed.

3.  Actively and positively contribute to the appraisal process and to follow up agreed actions.

4.  Work at all times in accordance with:

a.  The company Values and Culture.

b.  The Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 and to follow all company procedures and guidelines that assist this.

c.  The company Quality and Information Security Management Systems for example, but not limited to, ISO9001, ISO13485 & ISO27001.

d.  The Data Protection Act.

e.  The company’s Dignity & Diversity Policy.

5.  Undertake such other duties as may be required within the general scope of the job.

Person specification: Delivery Team Lead

You should have the ability to analyse tasks and problems logically and to communicate clearly and concisely, both verbally and in writing. You will have a rigorous, methodical approach with excellent attention to detail. In addition, it is important that you have the ability to develop and motivate a team, with proven leadership skills and experience managing a team.

Our new products are developed in a lean and agile, test driven environment and you will be introduced to and trained in our methodology.

Salary: / £36- 40k
Holidays: / 25 days plus statutory Bank Holidays
Normal place of work: / Within a 30 mile radius of Tolvaddon Energy Park, Camborne Cornwall
Start date: / As soon as practical
Contract: / Permanent, full-time contract
Deadline for application: / 20 March 2016

You will:

·  Be an experienced people manager, with the ability to lead and develop a team

·  have excellent facilitation and organisational skills

·  have excellent written and verbal communication skills

·  be experienced and have a deep technical understanding in an object oriented programming language

·  be experienced in technical design and architecture within the web application domain

·  have an open mind to new ideas and working with changes

·  pay excellent attention to detail

·  love what you do

·  be permitted to work in the UK

You may:

·  have .Net experience

·  have ASP.Net MVC and JavaScript skills

·  have experience in agile development methodologies

·  have experience in test automation

·  have experience in virtualised infrastructure and deployment.

·  have knowledge of the medical industry

·  have knowledge or experience of working in a standards compliant environment.

Position – Delivery Team Lead

Deadline – 20 March 2016

The information that you provide on this form will be treated as confidential and will be used only for personnel administration.

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Should you be invited to an interview you will be required to sign and date a printed copy of this completed declaration.

Declaration /
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