OneEPR Integration Specialist

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

Job Location:

Portsmouth - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The single corporate service is delivered across both organisation. You may be based at either IWT or PHU and individuals may be required to undertake business travel between sites. The arrangements and frequency will be agreed locally.

Band 7

Full-time - 37.5 hours per week

Fixed Term Contract - 24 months

Closing Date - 31st October 2025

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

The solution is the direct result of the combined vision 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 clinical and departmental experts alongside regional digital colleagues to procure and implement a joint EPR over the coming years .

Job purpose

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

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

Qualifications :

Essential Qualifications:

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

Additional Information :

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ Race Equality and Disability and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education opinions culture ethnicity race sex gender identity and expression nation of origin age languages spoken veterans status colour religion disability sexual orientation and beliefs.

Remote Work :

Employment Type :

Contract