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Senior frontend developer

Band 7 · Frontend developer · 477 job evaluation points

UK GDaD PCF level: Senior frontend developer

Most often performed at Civil Service grade SEO or G7.

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
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Responsibilities

Skills

SkillExpected levelWhat this level means
AccessibilityUK GDaD PCFPractitioner (3)

You can:

  • build user interfaces that meet a predefined set of standards
  • champion accessibility to internal stakeholders
  • offer design feedback to mitigate the risk of failing accessibility testing
  • offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use when accessibility testing
Communicating informationUK GDaD PCFPractitioner (3)

You can:

  • work collaboratively in a group and build relationships with others
  • identify issues through Agile 'health checks' and work with others to address them
  • manage stakeholder expectations
  • be flexible and capable of proactive and reactive communication
  • host or moderate difficult discussions within the team or with senior stakeholders
Community collaborationUK GDaD PCFPractitioner (3)

You can:

  • work collaboratively in a group, actively networking with others
  • adapt feedback to ensure it’s effective and lasting
  • use your initiative to identify problems or issues in the team dynamic and rectify them
  • identify issues through Agile ‘health checks’ with the team, and help to stimulate the right responses
Leadership and guidance (frontend developer)UK GDaD PCFPractitioner (3)

You can:

  • make decisions characterised by medium levels of risk and complexity, and can recommend decisions as risk and complexity increase
  • contribute to best practice guidelines
Modern development standardsUK GDaD PCFPractitioner (3)

You can:

  • apply modern development standards and support others in applying them
Programming and build (frontend developer)UK GDaD PCFPractitioner (3)

You can:

  • collaborate with others when necessary to review specifications
  • use the agreed specifications to build, test and document user interfaces of medium to high complexity, using the right standards and tools
PrototypingUK GDaD PCFPractitioner (3)

You can:

  • approach prototyping as a team activity, actively soliciting prototypes and testing with others
  • establish design patterns and iterate them
  • use a variety of prototyping methods and choose the most appropriate
Strategic thinkingUK GDaD PCFPractitioner (3)

You can:

  • define strategies and policies, providing guidance to others on working in the strategic context
  • evaluate current strategies to ensure business requirements are being met and exceeded where possible
Systems design (frontend developer)UK GDaD PCFPractitioner (3)

You can:

  • translate agreed designs into working user interfaces following modern standards
  • manage and document technical complexity to make sure work is easily maintained and reusable
  • work with well-understood technology and can identify appropriate patterns to make effective use of technologies’ best features
Systems integration (frontend developer)UK GDaD PCFPractitioner (3)

You can:

  • define the static assets build
  • co-ordinate all aspects of the integration and take responsibility for the tests around the user interface
  • configure the part of the system that uses the network and test that it works as expected
User focus (frontend developer)UK GDaD PCFPractitioner (3)

You can:

  • collaborate with user researchers and interaction designers to represent user needs internally
  • explain the difference between user needs and the desires of the user
  • champion user research to focus on all users
  • effectively prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others to do so
  • offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use
Web performance optimisationUK GDaD PCFPractitioner (3)

You can:

  • identify and resolve web performance issues
  • collect data to monitor and resolve web performance issues
  • guide on the best web performance optimisation software and methods to use
Understanding health and care servicesThis referenceWorking (2)

You can:

  • explain the clinical and care workflows your work supports
  • use common health care terms correctly with clinical and care colleagues
  • recognise when a change could affect patient care and raise it
Clinical risk managementThis referenceWorking (2)

You can:

  • take part in hazard workshops and contribute to a hazard log
  • follow the clinical risk management process for your work
  • provide evidence for a clinical safety case, such as test results
Information governance and data protectionThis referenceWorking (2)

You can:

  • apply data protection principles to your work
  • contribute to data protection impact assessments
  • handle information requests and records correctly
Health data interoperabilityThis referenceWorking (2)

You can:

  • read and use FHIR resources, profiles, and APIs
  • build or test simple integrations under guidance
  • check messages against a specification
Equality, diversity, and inclusionThis referenceWorking (2)

You can:

  • recognise and challenge behaviour that excludes others
  • consider different needs when you plan your work
Medical device software regulationThis referenceAwareness (1)

You can:

  • explain that some health software is regulated as a medical device
  • know who to ask when a product might be a medical device

Typical qualifications and experience

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)

FactorLevelLevel summaryPoints
Communication and relationship skills4Gives complex, sensitive, or contentious information needing persuasion, negotiation, or training skills, or highly complex information.32
Knowledge, training, and experience7Highly developed specialist knowledge across the range of the specialism (master's level or equivalent).196
Analytical and judgemental skills4Judgements on complex facts or situations needing analysis, interpretation, and comparison of options.42
Planning and organisational skills3Plans several complex activities, adjusting plans as needed.27
Physical skills3Developed skills needing speed or accuracy, such as advanced keyboard use.27
Responsibility for patient and client care1Helps patients, clients, or relatives during incidental contact.4
Responsibility for policy and service development3Implements policies for own area and proposes changes that affect other areas.21
Responsibility for financial and physical resources1Takes personal care of equipment and resources used in own work.5
Responsibility for people2Supervises or coordinates staff day to day, trains others regularly, or gives basic HR advice.12
Responsibility for information resources5Designs and develops major information systems, or runs information systems for several services as the main duty.34
Responsibility for research and development2Regularly does research, development, trials, or equipment and system testing as part of the job.12
Freedom to act4Results are defined, but the job holder decides how to achieve them, within broad policy.32
Physical effort1Sitting, standing, and walking, with little physical effort.3
Mental effort4Frequent prolonged concentration, or occasional intense concentration.18
Emotional effort1Rare exposure, or occasional indirect exposure, to distressing circumstances.5
Working conditions2Occasional 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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Rated 0 of 18 skills: 0 meet the expected level, 0 below, 0 above.

Accessibility Expected: Practitioner
Communicating information Expected: Practitioner
Community collaboration Expected: Practitioner
Leadership and guidance (frontend developer) Expected: Practitioner
Modern development standards Expected: Practitioner
Programming and build (frontend developer) Expected: Practitioner
Prototyping Expected: Practitioner
Strategic thinking Expected: Practitioner
Systems design (frontend developer) Expected: Practitioner
Systems integration (frontend developer) Expected: Practitioner
User focus (frontend developer) Expected: Practitioner
Web performance optimisation Expected: Practitioner
Understanding health and care services Expected: Working
Clinical risk management Expected: Working
Information governance and data protection Expected: Working
Health data interoperability Expected: Working
Equality, diversity, and inclusion Expected: Working
Medical device software regulation Expected: Awareness
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