OneEPR Integration Specialist

NHS; Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking a Systems Integration Specialist dedicated to implementing a single integrated electronic patient record system. This role is crucial for improving patient outcomes and requires a bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field. The ideal candidate will have excellent skills in data integration and experience with healthcare interoperability standards. Location is based in Portsmouth or Newport, with potential travel required between sites.

Benefits

On-site nursery

Wellness Centre with gym and swimming pool

Access to staff networks

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience required.
• Experience with unit testing and data flow management.
• Knowledge of digital technologies in healthcare.

Responsibilities

• Stay current on new digital technologies and healthcare interoperability standards.
• Maintain understanding of Trust-wide applications.
• Develop unit tests to ensure functionality.

Skills

Knowledge of healthcare interoperability standards

Experience with data integration

Ability to troubleshoot interface issues

Education

Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

HL7 standards

FHIR

EPR systems

Job description

The OneEPR Programme exists to implement a singleintegrated electronic patient record (EPR) designed to improve patient outcomesand the experience of delivering care for our patients.

The solution is the direct result of the combinedvision and strategic goals of:

1. Isle of Wight NHS Trust (IWT)

2. Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust (PHU)

3. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (HHFT)

4. University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust(UHS)

The Trusts will work together with their clinicaland departmental experts alongside regional digital colleagues to procure andimplement a joint EPR over the coming years .

Location: Base location either St Mary's Hospital,Parkhurst Road, Newport, Isle of Wight,PO30 5TG, or Building 4000, Lakeside,North Harbour, Cosham, Portsmouth, PO6 3EN.

Across site travel may be required, the frequency willbe agreed locally

Main duties of the job

The Systems Integration Specialist will be a keyplayer in the Trusts strategic goal to converge to a single EPR. This willinvolve working with system suppliers to identify any new data flows requiredto link key systems as well as migrating integration solutions across differentintegration platforms.

About us

Working as a partnership, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this.

The vision for our SCS is to:

• Be an employer of choice for corporate talent, attracting and retaining people who share our values for excellence in care and welcome the opportunity to benefit from the broad range of flexible career and development opportunities we can offer.
• Improve efficiency through simplified and standardised policies, processes, and systems, drawing on the best from both Trusts.
• Do things once and reduce any duplication on transactional tasks giving corporate staff the ability to focus on higher value and more diverse activities.
• Co-invest in the latest digital solutions and standardise our approach, meaning we do things once for both organisations.
• Improve learning and development opportunities and sharing best practice, upskilling both Trusts.
• Co-locate teams in purpose-built facilities on the Island and in Portsmouth to enable closer working and sharing.
• Build resilience for individuals and our teams.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, our Wellness Centre with gym and swimming pool and access to our staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and Disability

Job responsibilities

Job summary

• Stay current on new digital technologies, and new healthcare interoperability standards and
• Maintain an understanding of Trust-wide applications as well as those applications with which they interface.
• Create/ use case specific implementation guides in accordance with HL7 standards including FHIR
• Maintain interfaces based on user requirement changes, and/or modifications to data formats, or protocols, of either the sending or receiving systems in both on-premise and cloud based architectures

Specific Core Functions

• Working with EPR, PAS, laboratory and other clinical systems identifying the most appropriate method and product to satisfy individual integration requirements.
• Participate in development specifications such as user story and task design
• Fully responsible for unit testing, working with systems analysts to confirm successful data flows.
• Develop unit tests to accurately test business logic and functionality
• Taking a lead role within a project, providing a supervisory role for other members of the integration team.
• Day to day management of the interfaces maximising uptime
• Troubleshoot interface issues and document interfaces and incidents as required.
• Participates in thorough testing during system upgrades and instalment of new applications.
• Contribute to the IT Departments on-call rota and if required, maintain required skills, experience and resource levels allowing for hospital digital 24/7 services.

For full details of this position please refer to enclosed Job Description

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience required

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Isle of Wight NHS Trust

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