Low Code Software Developer: Sponsorship Available

South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

In line with our 5 year organisational strategy to achieve our vision that “Together, we will deliver the best care when you need us most”, SWAST made a promise to the population of the South West of England that “Everyone will benefit from our improved infrastructure, enhanced digital tools and data insights, and our organisation will be recognised as a great place to work”. We believe that automation makes a substantial contribution to fulfilling this promise by improving our corporate and clinical processes to relieve our staff from repetitive manual work.

We have invested in 2 platforms for low-code automation development – Microsoft Power Platform and SS&C Blue Prism. This role will work closely with business analysts to develop automated processes and custom apps using these platforms and maintain the existing deployments.

The post holder will keep pace with the accelerating capability of Artificial Intelligence and its contribution to automation, advising organisational stakeholders on the technologies, approaches and processes that could further enhance the Trust.

 

Main duties of the job

  • Develop, optimise and automate workflows and business processes aligned to business requirements using automation technologies, such as Blue Prism and Power Automate.
  • Deliver cost-effective and efficient automations with regards to licence costs and compute resources.
  • Continuously monitor the automation environments assessing performance and proactively identifying and addressing potential issues or bottlenecks.
  • Develop, build, test and deploy custom business applications to solve business challenges and enhance productivity.
  • Integrate and customise SharePoint solutions to support business collaboration, document management, data capture, and process automation.
  • Following the business analysis phase, advise on the opportunities for workflow automation, and the optimal technical approach or solution.
  • Extract data from a variety of internal sources to support the automation projects and consider the impact of data quality, information governance and GDPR.
  • Work closely with our external suppliers, data engineers, database administrator, and internal DDaT teams to ensure data integrity, performance and security.
  • Support end users by providing training and on-going technical assistance for Blue Prism, Power Apps, Power Automate, and SharePoint.
  • Design action plans based on detailed knowledge, data gathering and analysis in collaboration with key stakeholders and technical teams.

Person Specification

Education and qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to a Degree level or equivalent experience in computer science or related subject.
  • 4 GCSEs at Grade C or above including English and Maths
  • Strong understanding of SS&C Blue Prism, Microsoft Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI with evidence of personal development using MS Learn or other equivalent learning environments.

Previous experience (Paid/ Unpaid relevant to job)

Essential

  • Extensive experience in developing solutions using an automation platform with a strong background and business process automation
  • roficiency in low code app development, including custom app creation.
  • Experience with common data services, data connectors, and APIs.

Desirable

  • Experience in Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, SharePoint and Blue Prism.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 12 August 2025

To apply for this job please visit apps.trac.jobs.