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About Us: Combat Stress was established in 1919. We are the UK’s leading charity for veterans’ mental health. For almost a century, we’ve helped former servicemen and women deal with trauma-related mental health conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety and depression. Today we provide UK-wide support to veterans from every service and every conflict, on the phone and online, in the community and at our treatment centres. We’re on a mission to raise awareness that invisible injuries can be just as hard to cope with as physical ones. So, when a veteran is having a tough time, we’re there to help tackle the past and to take on the future. About the role: An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Executive Leadership Team taking specific responsibility for the leadership, development and day-to-day output of the newly formed Marketing & Communications function. This role will lead and direct our marketing & communications strategy, planning and executing activities to maximise positive awareness and exposure of Combat Stress to veterans, donors and influencers.  This will involve multi-channel marketing communications, online and offline PR and public affairs, development of our website and online giving capabilities and leading our internal communication to grow fundraising, veteran and staff engagement. This role is subject to a DBS check. What we offer: You will work within a reputable charity that is constantly evolving to meet the needs of our veterans, that has a fantastic cause and a committed follower base. In addition, we offer the following benefits: 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays Competitive stakeholder pension scheme - contributions matched up to 10% of salary Discount shopping vouchers Cycle to work scheme Access to the Employee Assistance Programme Plus many more.

This is an exciting time for the NHSmail service which is used by over 1.2 million NHS staff in England and Scotland.  NHSmail will shortly go live with a hybrid Exchange 2013/Office 365 service as well as many other planned developments including identity management/federation, implementing new email messaging standards and working on the future direction of NHSmail.   As the Senior Technical Architect on the NHSmail programme you will have day to day architecture responsibility in supporting the NHSmail service.  You will ensure architecture consistency with the NHS Digital best practice and policy whilst ensuring a pragmatic delivery against business requirements is achieved. Interviews will be held on the 13th June in Leeds. Further information about the role is available within the attached document, if you would benefit from an informal conversation about the role please contact clive.star@nhs.net. The advertised salary is inclusive of a Recruitment and Retention Premium (RRP) of 20%, the core salary range is £61,777 - £72,597 (£74,132 - £87,116). About you We want to make sure that you are set for success, these are the key skills and experiences that you will have: Significant hands on experience with cloud, infrastructure and collaboration systems, operating as the senior point of technical authority.  You will be required to make credible technical decisions and communicate with sensitivity and diplomacy to ensure the right technical direction is followed.  Experience of leading and delivering technical change, challenging the status-quo, anticipating problems and monitoring implementation progress.  Experience of managing staff to deliver across a large and complex domain of work in terms of transaction and data volumes, technology complexity and number of active users.  TOGAF certification 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 • Car Lease scheme    NHS Digital values and respects the diversity of its employees and aims to recruit a workforce which reflects our diverse communities.  NHS Digital is undertaking a period of organisational change at the moment to ensure we have high calibre people, with the right skills to support us in delivering our business, now and in the future. While we deliver the organisational change required through to April 2020 we have identified that we still need to recruit to critical roles to maintain our delivery roadmap but we need to make you aware that should you be successful you may still be subject to a change initiative in the future. We wanted to be as transparent as possible so you can build this in to your decision making process when considering at this time whether to apply for a role at NHS Digital. We will keep you updated throughout your application but please do email us if you have any further questions.  Additionally, should you apply and be invited to interview you can ask your interviewer more questions on our structure changes and the specific role you have applied for. 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.   

Here at Cancer Research UK, our Engineering team is expanding. We are looking for a variety of creative and innovative Developers at all levels (Developer, Senior and Lead) to join the team on a permanent basis and help beat cancer sooner. Our key ambition is to drive our extraordinary tech stack even further and continue winning exclusive awards. Through your coding expertise, you'll work with a variety of teams across CRUK to create and advise on a wide range of initiatives, from the CRUK website through to grant management systems and new fundraising platforms. We have fantastic technology professionals across all our tech teams, who are not only fantastic at what they do, but are also passionate about our main aim of beating cancer sooner. Are you ready to join us? Who are we? CRUK has an ambitious approach to Engineering. Our in-house software solutions include a custom-built Content Management platform, Event and Activity Management web applications, Online Fundraising platform, Ecommerce, mobile apps and of course numerous websites. These are business critical systems under continual agile development, operating at scale for millions of users. Our Software Engineering team consists of three different levels of Developer: Developer, Senior Developer and Lead Developer. We operate using  PHP ,  JavaScript  and  .NET , so will be looking for experience in one or more of these languages. What   will   I   be   doing? In these Developer roles, we are looking for self-motivated individuals who will be responsible for... crafting and building online software applications working collaboratively within a product delivery team and taking responsibility for developing high quality code, embracing and ensuring best practice, while looking for new and improved approaches to technical challenges contributing to the creation of designs and solutions for products across the digital estate, perhaps with very little upfront information developing code, adhering to standards and using Lean and Agile principles. What   are   we   looking   for? We are looking for front-end and back-end developers and will give you the opportunity to learn our stack which includes PHP (Symfony & Drupal), JavaScript (React & Node) and .NET Core. Candidates at all levels should have strong core skills and an ability to adapt those skills to new libraries and frameworks. Equally, all applicants will be expected to evidence that they can write clean, readable and properly tested code based on tried and tested design patterns. Cloud natives are highly desirable and any knowledge of AWS services, various SQL and noSQL databases, as well as queues such as Kafka and other backend components, are a definite advantage. To join us in this role, we're looking for our future team members to have a mix of the following technologies, and at various levels of ability (please take a look at the candidate packs for more information): Experience of appropriate software development methodologies and standard methodologies e.g. Agile Consistent track record of understanding business problems and translating them into solution designs using creativity and pragmatism A developed customer focus, with really good communication skills outside of technology For the Lead role, we'll be looking for you to have experience of managing a team of developers Creativity - you'll likely be tasked with finding creative solutions to quite complex problems, sometimes with very little upfront information, so being able to thrive under these circumstances is critical What's   in   it   for   me? We want to bring our Developers in on a permanent basis so that we can continue to build a culture of support, creativity and learning within the dev team. Iteration and flexibility are key, and you'll have all the autonomy you need to do your best work. Every step we make towards beating cancer relies on every pound, every hour and every person, and we need incredible technology professionals to find new and exciting ways of supporting our supporters on their journey to help us raise money. We have a solid history within our tech teams of encouraging movement across the charity to help you grow, both personally and professionally. In addition, you'll get: 25 days annual leave a year plus public holidays An incredibly strong tech stack The chance to develop state of the art, innovative technical solutions to complex problems Competitive pension scheme A brilliant learning and development environment   If this describes you, you can enjoy a phenomenal career with us as, together, we bring forward the day when all cancers are cured. For more detailed information, please see the candidate packs for the available roles below: Front End Developers (JavaScript): https://adobe.ly/2UsMKEw Back End Developers (PHP): https://adobe.ly/2Giuske .NET Developers: https://adobe.ly/2KNRo0f