Lead frontend developer
Band 8b · Frontend developer · 604 job evaluation points
UK GDaD PCF level: Lead frontend developer
A lead frontend developer is an expert practitioner who influences and mentors others.
At this role level, you will:
- set direction and assure the quality of development across teams
- lead multiple or highly complex services
- contribute to the community, providing technical leadership, coaching and mentoring
- promote knowledge sharing and adoption of good practice
- be proficient in a wide range of technical systems and able to identify appropriate technology and approaches
Responsibilities
- Lead frontend engineering across a group of teams or a major patient-facing service.
- Own the technical direction of the organisation's design system and frontend libraries.
- Make sure interfaces across services meet accessibility standards and are assured for clinical safety.
- Work with architects, designers, and clinical leads to shape product roadmaps and frontend technology choices.
- Lead the frontend community of practice and line manage or lead frontend developers.
Skills
| Skill | Expected level | What this level means |
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| Accessibility | Expert (4) | You can:
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| Communicating information | Expert (4) | You can:
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| Community collaboration | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Leadership and guidance (frontend developer) | Expert (4) | You can:
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| Modern development standards | Expert (4) | You can:
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| Programming and build (frontend developer) | Expert (4) | You can:
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| Prototyping | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Strategic thinking | Expert (4) | You can:
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| Systems design (frontend developer) | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Systems integration (frontend developer) | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| User focus (frontend developer) | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Web performance optimisation | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Understanding health and care services | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Clinical risk management | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Information governance and data protection | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Health data interoperability | Working (2) | You can:
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| Equality, diversity, and inclusion | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Medical device software regulation | Working (2) | You can:
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| People management | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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Typical qualifications and experience
- Extensive experience of leading frontend engineering for complex, accessible services.
Band 8b outline
- Knowledge
- Expert knowledge across several disciplines or a large service.
- Autonomy
- Shapes policy and strategy for a large area.
- Scope
- Several services or teams, or a principal-level discipline.
- Leadership
- Manages managers, or is the principal authority in a discipline.
- Accountability
- Several services, their staff, and their budgets.
Job evaluation (illustrative)
| Factor | Level | Level summary | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communication and relationship skills | 5 | Gives highly complex or contentious information needing developed persuasion and negotiation, presents to large groups, or communicates where there are significant barriers to acceptance. | 45 |
| Knowledge, training, and experience | 8 | Advanced knowledge (doctorate plus further training or equivalent), or specialist knowledge across more than one discipline built over a long period. | 240 |
| Analytical and judgemental skills | 5 | Judgements on highly complex facts or situations needing analysis, interpretation, and comparison of options. | 60 |
| Planning and organisational skills | 4 | Plans a broad range of complex activities or strategies, adjusting them as needed. | 42 |
| Physical skills | 2 | Skills gained through practice, such as standard keyboard use or driving. | 15 |
| Responsibility for patient and client care | 1 | Helps patients, clients, or relatives during incidental contact. | 4 |
| Responsibility for policy and service development | 4 | Implements policy and develops policy or services for a service or several areas. | 32 |
| Responsibility for financial and physical resources | 3 | Authorises payments, buys some assets or supplies, monitors or holds a delegated budget, or maintains assets. | 21 |
| Responsibility for people | 3 | Manages a group of staff day to day, teaches core or specialist training, or gives core HR advice. | 21 |
| Responsibility for information resources | 5 | Designs and develops major information systems, or runs information systems for several services as the main duty. | 34 |
| Responsibility for research and development | 2 | Regularly does research, development, trials, or equipment and system testing as part of the job. | 12 |
| Freedom to act | 5 | Works within general policies, and in most cases decides how to interpret them. | 45 |
| Physical effort | 1 | Sitting, standing, and walking, with little physical effort. | 3 |
| Mental effort | 4 | Frequent prolonged concentration, or occasional intense concentration. | 18 |
| Emotional effort | 1 | Rare exposure, or occasional indirect exposure, to distressing circumstances. | 5 |
| Working conditions | 2 | Occasional unpleasant conditions, frequent travel or outdoor work, or near-continuous screen use on most days. | 7 |
| Total (Band 8b: 585 to 629) | 604 | ||
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