OneEPR Integration Specialist (Senior Developer)

Band 7 - £47,810- £54,710 

Full-time - 37.5 hours per week 

Fixed Term Contract - 24 months 

On-site required at least 3 days per week.

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

IWT and PHU Trusts have started a journey to share PHU’s in-house developed EPR in readiness for OneEPR. 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 Product Owners to support new feature requests to assist with feature parity with IWTs current EPR.

Job summary

• Design, build, test and deploy integration solutions in the trust’s integration engine, InterSystems Health Connect
• Design, build, test and deploy new features for in-house applications to align with IWT’s requirements (C# and .NET)
• Engage with product owners to understand requirements and convert into User Stories as part of the Agile process
• 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

• Analyse, design, build, test and deploy applications and integrations on our technology stack:
  • In-house applications
    • C#
    • MS SQL
    • .NET Core
    • ASP.NET MVC 5
    • React
    • ASP.NET Web Forms
    • Git
    • Azure DevOps
  • Integration engine
    • InterSystems Health Connect
    • ObjectScript
  • Applicants must have experience in either application development or integration development (both is desirable)

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

Experience 

Database Experience: Ability to Read and Write complex SQL code Database Experience: Preferred: Microsoft SQL Server.

Network Experience: Ability to investigate and diagnose connectivity issues using tools such as netstat, etc. Some knowledge of LANs, WANs, VPNs, and load balancing.

Adequate relevant experience with standard health care formats (CCDA, HL7, etc. ) to enable the autonomy required in this role. 

Verifiable experience with programming and scripting required.

Experience in a health care systems environment is required.

Demonstrable understanding of Interface Concepts (both end user and data)

Demonstrable ability to work and communicate effectively with both technical and business audiences.

Knowledge

Must have proven applied knowledge in a combination of two or more of the following areas: XML , C#, SOAP, REST, SQL, JSON, HL7/CCDA

Must have an extensive knowledge with Healthcare Interface Engines, Web languages, scripting and web development.

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, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.