Integration/EPR Specialist

Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides acute and community medical services across Bolton Metropolitan Borough area. We provide IT services to approximately 7000 users with a wide range of hardware, software and applications.

Based at the Royal Bolton Hospital, you will be part of a dedicated team of IT professionals in a challenging environment. With a wide range of IT infrastructure and software applications, we can provide a comprehensive and structured career path.

Our Integration Specialists work with a range of HL7 interfaces making extensive use of Altera eLink and HealthShare/Ensemble Integration Engine to develop and support a whole host of healthcare integration solutions.

You will have previous experience building detailed HL7 interface between healthcare systems using middleware messaging tools (Altera eLink/interface sub system ISS) which will encompass previous experience of healthcare applications (PAS, EPR, Laboratory/Radiology, Pharmacy, e OBS, EDMS etc.) You will have extensive knowledge of Sunrise Clinical Manager (EPR) and associated database schemas. The successful candidate will manage the integration workstream on deployment projects delivering the full integration lifecycle-design/develop/deploy.

Main duties of the job

With the direction of the Integration and Systems Development Manager:

• Support the management, maintenance and development of the Trust's enterprise integration architecture, implementing robust middleware and effective interface governance.
• Design, develop, test and document all systems interfaces in use or required within the Trust, in line with the Trust's Informatics Strategy.
• Provide ongoing support by analysing, monitoring and troubleshooting all aspects of system integration.
• Assist and provide continued support of the implementation of the Trust's EPR System / Interfacing.
• Provide support and training for junior members of the team.

About us

The aims of the Trust are to improve the health of and provide the best possible care to the population in which we serve to ensure that our staff have joy and pride in their work. We are striving to recruit a workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We value our staff and can offer excellent opportunities for further training and development. We are keen to reflect our local population and therefore all applications from all sectors of the community are welcomed.

Job responsibilities

• To understand the requirements of local healthcare providers and provide recommendations and advice on the best-fit systems integration developments for their service needs.
• To investigate Requests for Service and/or Change Control Notifications for systems integration developments, by means of meetings and/or telephone calls, and produce a report itemising the requirements in a format that is easily understandable to the user.
• Provide a support function with the Trusts System Integration and Application Support environment liaising with the Integration Team and Application Support Team.
• Provide a support function related to Trusts electronic document delivery strategy liaising with GP providers and partner Trusts.
• Provide a support function for the Trusts EPR system liaising with healthcare providers and members of the Informatics Team.
• Represent the Trust in System User Groups and to ensure that the Trusts interests are communicated to a wider system user base.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Educated to degree level in computing or equivalent experience'

Experience

• Significant experience building HL7 interfaces between Healthcare Systems
• Experienced user of middleware messaging tools (AllScripts/Altera eLink / Interface Sub System - ISS) and development experience with these tools
• Significant experience with AllScripts/Altera eLink to build system interfaces between Sunrise Clinical Manager and other healthcare applications (PAS / Laboratory / Radiology / Pharmacy / eOBS / EDMS)
• Good experience of Sunrise Clinical Manager application
• Interface development with FHiR, XML
• Experience building interfaces using Ensemble / Healthshare Data Transformation Language

Knowledge

• Detailed knowledge of HL7 2.3 / 2.4
• SQL Server, SQL Profiler, SQL (DML)
• Excellent knowledge of Sunrise Clinical Manager / database schema
• Ensemble Integration Engine / Healthshare
• Ensemble / Healthshare Data Transformation Language

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.

Integration & Systems Development Manager