Web Application Development Assistant

About the Role

Applications are invited for the post of Web Application Development Assistant to work within the Clinical Effectiveness Group (CEG) in the Centre for Primary Care, Wolfson Institute of Population Health. The role will be responsible for creating and maintaining browser-based tools to display clinical patient information for use within NHS General Practices. Primarily, this will involve migrating and redesigning existing Excel/VBA tools into a JavaScript environment. The tools will process sensitive personal data and so the role will involve collaborative and innovative problem solving to ensure security at all levels of the application.

About You

The postholder will need to be experienced in frontend JavaScript, CSS and HTML, with an emphasis on client-side technologies. They will be skilled in modern digital design techniques and have a good understanding of software development in general, with the ability to provide support to a small working term at each stage of the application lifecycle. Knowledge of standard healthcare coding, GP clinical systems and the NHS would be desirable.

About the School/Department

The Wolfson Institute of Population Health harnesses expertise across a wide range of population-based research and education activities and aims to be an internationally recognised centre of excellence in population health, primary care and preventive medicine.

The post-holder will work in the Clinical Effectiveness Group (CEG), which is composed of academics, researchers, clinicians, and facilitators who use data-driven tools and research to improve population health in Northeast London and beyond.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

Closing Date: 10/06/2025, 23:55 

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