Proclaim Developer

Job Title:

Proclaim Developer
Location:

Sharston, M22 4HH
Salary:

£35,000 - £40,000 per annum, depending on experience
Job type:

Full time, Permanent
About Us:
Established in 2000, Express Solicitors is an award-winning law firm that deals personal injury and clinical negligence claims. Based in Manchester, we serve clients nationwide. We are proud of the work we do helping injured people, and this is our core business.
Express Solicitors are currently ranked 80 out of more than 10,000 law firms in the UK and ranked in the top ten for the Best Law Firm to work for in the UK by Best Companies. We have a 5-star ranking with Trust Pilot from over 6,000 reviews, which, coming from our clients, means a lot to us.
About The Role:
Express is currently looking to appoint a Proclaim Developer, who will be responsible for the design, development, and day to day administration of the Proclaim case management system.
The role will be working with our Chief Operating Officer, Senior Proclaim Developer, and three other developers and where necessary third parties, in particular Access Legal Systems to ensure that all identified improvements to the system can be integrated efficiently and with minimal impact to end users.
In addition to development, the role will encompass the day-to-day administration of the Proclaim system including template maintenance, user configuration, task server administration and report design and execution.
The role will require co-operation with the general IT department and Operations department. In the interests of business efficiency and flexibility it may be necessary to provide cross-cover support to the IT department on occasion.
Person Specification:
Essential:
General understanding of common database programming and query languages
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
Effective communication skills allowing reporting on a non-technical level of work in progress to senior stakeholders
Ability to clearly document and evidence planned changes using project and workflow documentation and retain current configurations for recovery purposes
Excellent organisation and time management skills
Must understand the concept of internal customers and ensure that internal stakeholders remain confident in the ability of Proclaim to suit the business
Strong negotiation skills and the capability to deal firmly with external companies to manage projects and maintenance effectively
Desired:
Up to and including Proclaim Technical Level 4 training attended or ability to demonstrate equivalent practical experience including:
A minimum of 5 years' experience in a similar Proclaim development role
Creating new case types, database fields and correspondents
Screen design and intelligence
Using maths fields and tests to perform specific functions
Workflow maintenance including creation of linked actions, forms, secure documents, and master documents
Advanced Report training or equivalent practical experience of designing, amending and scheduling reports
Understanding of design and execution of SQL queries
Experience of designing and using auto routines
Import/Export routines
Task server configuration, scheduling, and troubleshooting
Familiarity with Proclaim v3.4 and its additional features
Experience of design and execution of Macros
Knowledge of Proclaim Accounts system and Sage accounting software
Experience of Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Medical Agency, and Costs Case types
Knowledge of SQL or similar database languages and ASP, PHP or similar for Web interfacing
HTML knowledge
Understanding of web services and multi-platform system interactions
Knowledge of Proclaim MI Warehouse
Understanding of Proclaim A2A integration and maintenance
Experience of creating and maintaining Proclaim Secure Docs
A practical knowledge of Windows based networks including Active Directory and Exchange
Salary & Working Hours:
Salary is £35,000 - £40,000, depending on experience.
Working Hours: 8:30am - 5:30pm Monday to Thursday, 8:30am-5pm Fridays.
It may on occasion be necessary to perform maintenance outside of core hours and therefore a flexible approach is required.
Benefits:
23 days holiday a year, rising to 26 days
3 holiday buy backs per year after 1 year
Extra day's holiday for your birthday after 2 years
Private medical insurance available after 2 years
Death in Service
Active social committee with generous departmental and firm-wide social budget
Active training culture and various groups and events such as Diversity & Inclusion
Enhanced Maternity Leave payment if you have over 1 year tenure
Other benefits including Employee Assistance Programme, free fruit & annual flu jab
Recruitment Process:
Please send a CV and covering letter by clicking APPLY.
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Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of; Proclaim Developer, Case Management Developer, Law, Web Developer, Web Designer SQL Queries, Proclaim Accounts may also be considered for this role.

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