Job overview

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated individual to join our Digital Team. This role is part of a Team who are responsible supporting and delivering integration for clinical applications and projects.   

We are looking for individuals with excellent technical and communication skills.  The post holder is responsible for designing, developing and maintaining the patient data interfaces (mostly HL7) between the Trust’s main clinical systems (iCLIP Pro) and various clinical systems inside and outside the Trust. 

The post holder will ensure the day-to-day running and the correct operation of the interfaces contained in the Trust integration engines. It is essential that the post holder has Mirth skills and experience

Main duties of the job

·         Design, develop and maintain data transfer interfaces within the Trust’s integration engines using data formats such as HL7, FHIR, XML, and communication protocols such as REST, SOAP, M(L)LP

·         Design and plan new interfaces as required, to include quality assurance, unit testing, integration testing, regression testing and signoff

·         Co-ordinate the design, creation and maintenance of mapping tables used by the integration engines to translate data between systems. This will involve working closely with the system application managers and other technical staff.

·         Help to ensure the interfaces and their management are supportive all governance and security policies and procedures.

·         To monitor the day-to-day running and usage of data interfaces and integration engines

·         Discuss, design, develop, document and maintain programs, views or mechanisms to monitor various interfaces in the Trust’s integration engines and ensure the smooth running of the interfaces

·         To deal with any issues arising and notifying any users of planned or unplanned downtime. This would generally involve liaison with the ICT department

·         Produce a post-mortem on the occurrence of any unplanned downtime

·         To be available for on-call duties (involving the possibility of call outs) if required

·         To provide support for any issues arising from planned or unplanned down time

Working for our organisation

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.

We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surrey and NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.

The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and is supported by over 500 volunteers.