Integration Developer | University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

University Hospitals of Leicester; Leicester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS trust is seeking a highly motivated Integration Developer to join their Data Integration team. This role involves delivering integration solutions between clinical and administrative systems to enhance patient care. The successful candidate will work with various stakeholders, focusing on data messaging and API development while ensuring compliance with global healthcare standards. This position supports the Trust's goals of becoming a paperless hospital, delivering timely and accurate patient data to improve clinical decisions.

Qualifications

• Experience in data integration and API development.
• Strong understanding of HL7 messaging.
• Ability to solve complex technical issues.

Responsibilities

• Develop integration solutions for clinical and administrative systems.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver accurate patient data.
• Document development activities for support teams.

Skills

Data integration

API development

HL7 messaging

Interoperability standards

Problem-solving

Job description

The University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has embarked on an ambitious programme of works to upgrade or replace a number of its key, legacy clinical and patient administration systems to provide improved business workflows resulting in a better patient healthcare experience.

These systems don’t exist in isolation but instead need to exchange data and expose functionality with one another.

We’re looking for a highly motivated, technically creative individual to join the Data Integration team to deliver integration solutions between our clinical & administrative solutions. Working with key stakeholders within the IM&T department, the Trust and the wider healthcare community along with suppliers, the post holder will be responsible for delivering timely, accurate patient data to the right staff at the right time allowing them to make informed clinical judgements which will allow them to provide the best possible care for their patients.

As an integration developer for the One Digital programme reporting to the Enterprise Interoperability Architect, you will be a leading specialist responsible for data interface and messaging API development, configuration, testing and implementation activities supporting the delivery of our paperless hospital vision.

You will play a critical role, working on multiple projects simultaneously alongside business analysts, system suppliers and stakeholders from across the three hospital sites. Working closely with our teams of digital nurses and One Digital Programme leads, you will help to deliver tightly integrated best of breed solutions to the challenges of removing the reliance on paper for healthcare delivery.

You will transform solution designs and requirements specifications into robust solutions utilising our set of key systems around which we are building our hybrid electronic patient record. You will ensure best practice is followed in terms of development, configuration and testing lifecycles.

The work will entail the use of a range of technologies along an open, standards based approach. You will optimise and problem solve to refine and improve system configuration and data quality including back end systems integration via HL7 messaging and user facing interoperability via APIs and FHIR.

Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years (2023-2030).

We have four primary goals:

• high-quality care for all
• being a great place to work
• partnerships for impact
• research and education excellence

And we will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities.

Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all:

• we are compassionate
• we are proud
• we are inclusive
• we are one team

About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust:

Reporting to the Enterprise Interoperability Architect, the post holder will:

• Translate designs into robust solutions supportable by the Trust’s managed business partner for IT
• Develop and adhere to policies and standards to ensure consistency across projects
• Work closely with technical subject matter experts and enterprise architects to ensure the technology infrastructure is extensible and reduces complexity wherever possible
• Advise on appropriate quality standards and control processes. Ensure that quality control activities (e.g. testing) are carried out satisfactorily and options for resolution of defects are clearly articulated.
• Ensure IT solutions meet information and cyber security governance standards
• Ensure integration messaging and API development is in line with global healthcare standards, working with third party suppliers, and delivers maximum utility to the end user avoiding duplication of data entry and reducing clinical and operational risk due to misaligned or unavailability of key data items.
• Develop and enhance the data integration platform that underpins the linkage between component hospital systems.
• Document development activities clearly so that key information can easily be shared with support teams for business as usual support and maintenance activities.
• Investigate and resolve highly complex technical issues relating to software or databases, identifying creative solutions and evaluating the relative merits of different options.
• Take advantage of new developing techniques and technologies, working closely with the One Digital Enterprise Architecture function to future proof the UHL hospital platforms.
• Create, develop and maintain good working relationships with external stakeholders and system vendors.
• Coach and support senior colleagues in their understanding, interpretation and use of information systems.

This advert closes on Wednesday 31 Dec 2025