Strategic Systems Integration Consultant

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Bedford; Hybrid; GBP 58,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s Digital Development and Integration Team seeks a Strategic Systems Integration Consultant to lead systems integration, interfaces and development management across the Trust's portfolio.

The role involves design, support and advice on current or new integrations, with flexible 37.5 hours per week and potential after-hours duties. Salary £57,528–£64,750, hybrid working from Bedford.

Qualifications

• Educated to Master’s Degree level or has equitable work based experience.
• Intersystems Healthcare integration training.
• Knowledge of systems integration and integration engine support.

Responsibilities

• Provide systems integration or development support across multiple technologies.
• Lead on licensing, resource projections, timelines and business case advice.
• Attend scoping meetings for integration and development requirements.
• Manage, support and maintain integration engines and interfaces.
• Perform root cause analysis and implement patches or fixes.

Skills

Systems integration

Education

Master’s Degree or equivalent work-based experience

Intersystems Healthcare integration training

Job description

Strategic Systems Integration Consultant

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Main area IT Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Other

37.5 hours per week (Hybrid working, with a minimum of 2 days per week in the office.) Job ref 418-COR5287-SSJ

Site Bedford Borough Hall Town Bedford Salary £57,528 - £64,750 pa Salary period Yearly Closing 14/11/2026 23:59

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for an individual to work with Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust's Digital Development and Integration Team.

The Development Team consists of technical staff specialising in support, security, maintenance, development or management of the Trusts integration architecture and associated platforms.

The Strategic Systems Integration Consultant is a key part of the Development team, the post will act as a lead within the team for systems integration, interface and development management or support. The post holder provides design, support or advice to the development team on current or new system integrations, interfaces or developments

Candidates will be expected to work their 37.5 hours flexibly to meet business requirements. Evenings, nights and weekends work may also be expected as part of a safer and more effective service delivery. Occasional on call duties may be required.

Main duties of the job

The Strategic Systems Integration Consultant is responsible for providing systems integration or development support covering a variety of technologies and responsibilities, this includes: -

• Support and maintenance
• Daily and scheduled tasks
• Essential patches or bug fixes
• Messaging Standards such as HL7, XML, JSON
• Integration Engine support, maintenance and alerting
• Highly complex issue or problem resolution
• Root cause analysis
• Attend scoping meetings for integration and development requirements

We’re looking for someone with strong development, organisational and communication skills, as well as excellent attention to detail. You’ll have experience of IT within Healthcare or in a large IT department with a large system portfolio,

This is a very team-focused environment, so you’ll need to be adaptable and enjoy team work too. High levels of personal resilience is a must as this is a very fast paced and at times challenging environment. Any experience of team leadership/supervision is extremely advantageous.

Working for our organisation

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics.

You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Strategic Systems Integration Consultant is a source of knowledge and advice for project teams. This includes providing expertise on licensing, systems integration, ongoing support, resource projections or costs, timelines and advising on business case development.

The post holder will take a lead role in specialist projects such as upgrades to key systems that impact across clinical and non-clinical areas, this includes downtime to be agreed with multiple stakeholders.

The Principal Developer will support the programme teams in the planning of projects and liaise or work alongside application vendors, internal stakeholders and other technical experts to do so.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Educated to Master’s Degree level or has equitable work based experience
• Intersystems Healthcare integration training

Knowledge

• Knowledge of systems integration and integration engine support or configuration
• In depth Knowledge of systems integration and interfacing at a technical fault level.
• Knowledge of development techniques and development platforms / environments / languages

Experience

• Experience of working in a project management environment, also working with multi-vendor teams
• Supporting, developing and maintaining systems integration and interfacing between clinical systems
• Experience of working within an NHS IT Department environment

It is an exciting time to join Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We run two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Our 7,500 staff provide high quality care for a growing population of around 700,000 across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas.

You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. Travel between hospital sites may be required. We have state-of-the art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.