Senior frontend developer
Band 7 · Frontend developer · 477 job evaluation points
UK GDaD PCF level: Senior frontend developer
A senior frontend developer is an experienced developer who works with minimal support and can influence and mentor others.
At this role level, you will:
- help set direction and embed good practice within teams
- make decisions based on research
- plan and lead development on sets of related stories, working with other disciplines to understand what needs to be built
- have an understanding of the whole system
- teach and mentor others
Responsibilities
- Lead the frontend design and delivery of significant features, such as booking, results, or clinical workflow screens.
- Set and maintain frontend standards for the team, including accessibility, performance, security, and testing.
- Contribute components and patterns to the organisation's design system and make sure they are safe and accessible.
- Work with clinical safety officers to make sure interface hazards are identified, controlled, and tested.
- Make sure services work well on slow connections, older devices, and assistive technologies.
- Coach and develop frontend developers in the team.
Skills
| Skill | Expected level | What this level means |
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| Accessibility | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Communicating information | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Community collaboration | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Leadership and guidance (frontend developer) | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Modern development standards | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Programming and build (frontend developer) | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Prototyping | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Strategic thinking | Practitioner (3) | 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 | Working (2) | You can:
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| Clinical risk management | Working (2) | You can:
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| Information governance and data protection | Working (2) | You can:
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| Health data interoperability | Working (2) | You can:
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| Equality, diversity, and inclusion | Working (2) | You can:
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| Medical device software regulation | Awareness (1) | You can:
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Typical qualifications and experience
- Substantial experience of designing, building, and supporting accessible production web services, at a level equivalent to a master's degree.
Band 7 outline
- Knowledge
- Highly developed specialist knowledge, typically to master's level or equivalent experience.
- Autonomy
- Works to organisational policy; decides how results are achieved; is the expert others consult.
- Scope
- Several products or services, or a specialist function.
- Leadership
- Leads a team or a professional practice area.
- Accountability
- Delivery of a service or specialist function, and its budget if held.
Job evaluation (illustrative)
| Factor | Level | Level summary | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communication and relationship skills | 4 | Gives complex, sensitive, or contentious information needing persuasion, negotiation, or training skills, or highly complex information. | 32 |
| Knowledge, training, and experience | 7 | Highly developed specialist knowledge across the range of the specialism (master's level or equivalent). | 196 |
| Analytical and judgemental skills | 4 | Judgements on complex facts or situations needing analysis, interpretation, and comparison of options. | 42 |
| Planning and organisational skills | 3 | Plans several complex activities, adjusting plans as needed. | 27 |
| Physical skills | 3 | Developed skills needing speed or accuracy, such as advanced keyboard use. | 27 |
| Responsibility for patient and client care | 1 | Helps patients, clients, or relatives during incidental contact. | 4 |
| Responsibility for policy and service development | 3 | Implements policies for own area and proposes changes that affect other areas. | 21 |
| Responsibility for financial and physical resources | 1 | Takes personal care of equipment and resources used in own work. | 5 |
| Responsibility for people | 2 | Supervises or coordinates staff day to day, trains others regularly, or gives basic HR advice. | 12 |
| 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 | 4 | Results are defined, but the job holder decides how to achieve them, within broad policy. | 32 |
| 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 7: 466 to 539) | 477 | ||
Self assessment
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