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This role may be located in one of the following locations; Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield.
Please find further information on the Corporate hub locations here.
As part of the role, you may be required to travel regularly to the other digital hubs. The frequency of this will be discussed further should you be successful.
Job Summary
Are you an accessibility advocate?
Do you want to solve complex problems that impact the most vulnerable citizens?
Do you look for ways to promote collaboration across your team?
If so, apply now and become our next Front-End Developer.
The Health & Disability Digital Function are responsible for a number of services which support some of the most vulnerable users in society to receive the financial support they need as a result of their health condition or disability. Some key digital assets include Personal Independence and Access to Work. In addition, the team manage a number of digital projects that are transforming services for citizens and DWP agents.
Successful candidates will work in a service team helping to deliver these key services for citizens and agents.
We are looking for enthusiastic, skilled and adaptable people. We provide comprehensive training and provide access to tools, materials and expertise that encourage continuous self-development to enable our people to reach their potential and help DWP meet its strategic goals.
Job Description
As a Front End Developer, you will:
See selection process for further details.
If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact [email protected].
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
Salary Information
Pay for this role is from £42,614 to £45,081.
The maximum salary for the grade is £45,081, however a Digital Allowance of up to £5,215 per annum is available for exceptional candidates. Digital Allowance is non-salary, and non-pensionable, and is classed as a temporary allowance. It is reviewed annually where it could be retained, amended, or removed.
Our offer to successful candidates will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview.
Existing Civil Servants who secure a new role on lateral transfer should maintain their current salary.
Existing Civil Servants who gain promotion may move to the bottom of the grade pay scale or 10% increase in salary whichever would be the greater.
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Experience and Technical skills.
Stage 1: Application
Your Application Will Consist Of Four Parts
An initial sift will be conducted using the technical statement. Candidates who pass the initial sift will be progressed to a full sift.
Important Information
If you’re successful at sift stage you will be invited to a video interview via Microsoft Teams. There, you will be assessed against the experiences listed above.
Interviews will take place from late June 2025. Interview dates to be confirmed.
Other Information
If high application volumes are received, the benchmark for candidates to proceed to the next stage may be raised. In line with our commitment to the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS), we aim to advance all candidates applying under the DCS who meet the minimum standard. However, we may only progress those candidates who best meet the required standards.
All successful candidates and those placed on reserve will be posted in merit list order by location.
Further Information
Find out more about Working for DWP.
For Hints and Tips on completing your application visit Applying for jobs at DWP Digital.
A reserve list may be held for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made.
All successful candidates and those placed on reserve will be posted in merit list order by location.
The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. Please ensure that all examples provided in your application are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. Applications will be screened and if evidence of plagiarism or copying examples/answers from other sources is found, your application will be withdrawn. Internal DWP candidates may also face disciplinary action.
Reasonable Adjustment
At DWP we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce.
We consider visible and non-visible disabilities, neurodiversity or learning differences, chronic medical conditions, or mental ill health. Examples include dyslexia, epilepsy, autism, chronic fatigue, or schizophrenia.
If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should: Contact Government Recruitment Service via [email protected] as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
Complete the “Reasonable Adjustments” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.
For further information on reasonable adjustments, terms and conditions and how we recruit visit the How We Recruit page.
Feedback
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Experience and Technical skills.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality requirements
This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.
Contact point for applicants
Job Contact
Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles. If you wish to make a complaint, please find further details here: https://careers.dwp.gov.uk/how-we-recruit/.
Please find further information on the Corporate hub locations here.
As part of the role, you may be required to travel regularly to the other digital hubs. The frequency of this will be discussed further should you be successful.
Job Summary
Are you an accessibility advocate?
Do you want to solve complex problems that impact the most vulnerable citizens?
Do you look for ways to promote collaboration across your team?
If so, apply now and become our next Front-End Developer.
The Health & Disability Digital Function are responsible for a number of services which support some of the most vulnerable users in society to receive the financial support they need as a result of their health condition or disability. Some key digital assets include Personal Independence and Access to Work. In addition, the team manage a number of digital projects that are transforming services for citizens and DWP agents.
Successful candidates will work in a service team helping to deliver these key services for citizens and agents.
We are looking for enthusiastic, skilled and adaptable people. We provide comprehensive training and provide access to tools, materials and expertise that encourage continuous self-development to enable our people to reach their potential and help DWP meet its strategic goals.
Job Description
As a Front End Developer, you will:
- Work as part of a team responsible for designing and building user-centred services.
- Work with cross-functional teams to integrate into the back end of the service to ensure that they are built and tested to a high standard.
- Turn agreed designs into robust and accessible user interfaces using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
- Build accessible services which work effectively across multiple devices and browsers.
- Use modern tooling and development techniques to write test-driven code.
- Ensure that the design and implementation of services is consistent with standards and our design system.
- Engage with and contribute to the engineering and user-centred design communities.
- Engage with teams across different levels and capabilities.
- Have an excellent ability to self-organise and define priorities.
- Coach and mentor colleagues.
- Work as part of a team responsible for designing and building user-centred services.
- Work with cross-functional teams to integrate into the back end of the service to ensure that they are built and tested to a high standard.
- Turn agreed designs into robust and accessible user interfaces using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
- Build accessible services which work effectively across multiple devices and browsers.
- Use modern tooling and development techniques to write test-driven code.
- Ensure that the design and implementation of services is consistent with standards and our design system.
- Engage with and contribute to the engineering and user-centred design communities.
- Engage with teams across different levels and capabilities.
- Have an excellent ability to self-organise and define priorities.
- Coach and mentor colleagues.
See selection process for further details.
If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact [email protected].
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Systems Integration
We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
- Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours.
- Generous annual leave – at least 25 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days over time (pro–rata for part time employees), plus 9 days public and privilege leave.
- Support for financial wellbeing, including interest-free season ticket loans for travel, a cycle to work scheme and an employee discount scheme.
- Health and wellbeing support including our Employee Assistance Programme for specialist advice and counselling and the opportunity to join HASSRA a first-class programme of competitions, activities and benefits for its members (subscription payable monthly).
- Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity and shared parental leave pay after 1 year’s continuous service.
- Funded learning and development to support progress in your role and career. This includes industry recognised qualifications and accreditations, coaching, mentoring and talent development programmes.
- An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join professional and interpersonal networks including Women’s Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more.
Salary Information
Pay for this role is from £42,614 to £45,081.
The maximum salary for the grade is £45,081, however a Digital Allowance of up to £5,215 per annum is available for exceptional candidates. Digital Allowance is non-salary, and non-pensionable, and is classed as a temporary allowance. It is reviewed annually where it could be retained, amended, or removed.
Our offer to successful candidates will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview.
Existing Civil Servants who secure a new role on lateral transfer should maintain their current salary.
Existing Civil Servants who gain promotion may move to the bottom of the grade pay scale or 10% increase in salary whichever would be the greater.
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Experience and Technical skills.
Stage 1: Application
Your Application Will Consist Of Four Parts
- A Personal Details application form.
- Employment history - this should contain your work experience and any skills, qualifications and accomplishments relevant to the jobs you have completed.
- Personal statement - up to 1000 words. This statement should be used to provide examples of how you meet the essential criteria below:
- Proven ability to work effectively as part of a team to translate concepts into production-ready, user-centred digital services.
- Demonstrable experience in building accessible and performant user interfaces across a range of devices and browsers.
- Proficiency in using modern development tools and techniques, with a strong focus on writing test-driven code. Experience of open-source technologies including HTML, CSS, client and server side JavaScript, Typescript and other modern front-end templating frameworks.
- Experience integrating front-end solutions with back-end services, working collaboratively within cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality services.
- A thorough understanding of service design principles, with the ability to ensure consistency with established design and implementation standards. The ability to promote standards as well as create a coaching and mentoring culture.
- Technical statement (up to 250 words). The following statement is aligned to the required technical skill of Systems Integration.
- Demonstrable expertise in Front-end development of large scale systems dealing with high numbers of users, transactions and business processes.
An initial sift will be conducted using the technical statement. Candidates who pass the initial sift will be progressed to a full sift.
Important Information
- You will be asked to complete your employment history. Any information that you would customarily share on a CV should therefore be entered onto the application form.
- Personal details that could be used to identify you including your name, contact details and address must be removed for your application to be considered.
- If your employment history, personal statement or technical statement contain any personal details your application will be withdrawn.
- We recognise that AI may be helpful when applying for this role, but it is important to use it in the right way. Read the DWP AI Candidate Guide to understand how you can make the best use of GenAI while ensuring your application remains authentic and effective.
If you’re successful at sift stage you will be invited to a video interview via Microsoft Teams. There, you will be assessed against the experiences listed above.
Interviews will take place from late June 2025. Interview dates to be confirmed.
Other Information
If high application volumes are received, the benchmark for candidates to proceed to the next stage may be raised. In line with our commitment to the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS), we aim to advance all candidates applying under the DCS who meet the minimum standard. However, we may only progress those candidates who best meet the required standards.
All successful candidates and those placed on reserve will be posted in merit list order by location.
Further Information
Find out more about Working for DWP.
For Hints and Tips on completing your application visit Applying for jobs at DWP Digital.
A reserve list may be held for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made.
All successful candidates and those placed on reserve will be posted in merit list order by location.
The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. Please ensure that all examples provided in your application are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. Applications will be screened and if evidence of plagiarism or copying examples/answers from other sources is found, your application will be withdrawn. Internal DWP candidates may also face disciplinary action.
Reasonable Adjustment
At DWP we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce.
We consider visible and non-visible disabilities, neurodiversity or learning differences, chronic medical conditions, or mental ill health. Examples include dyslexia, epilepsy, autism, chronic fatigue, or schizophrenia.
If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should: Contact Government Recruitment Service via [email protected] as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
Complete the “Reasonable Adjustments” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.
For further information on reasonable adjustments, terms and conditions and how we recruit visit the How We Recruit page.
Feedback
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Experience and Technical skills.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality requirements
This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.
Contact point for applicants
Job Contact
- Name : Akhtar Ali
- Email : [email protected]
- Email : [email protected]
Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles. If you wish to make a complaint, please find further details here: https://careers.dwp.gov.uk/how-we-recruit/.
Post Date
2025-05-23
Job Type
REMOTE
Employment type
Full-time
Category
Engineering, Information Technology
Level
Entry
Country
United Kingdom
Industry
Government Administration ,
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