Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

OneEPR Integration Specialist

The closing date is 31 October 2025

Job summary

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 .

Location: Base location either St Mary's Hospital, Parkhurst Road, Newport, Isle of Wight,PO30 5TG, or Building 4000, Lakeside, North Harbour, Cosham, Portsmouth, PO6 3EN.

Across site travel may be required, the frequency will be agreed locally.

Main duties of the job

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.

About us

Working as a partnership, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this.

The vision for our SCS is to:

Be an employer of choice for corporate talent, attracting and retaining people who share our values for excellence in care and welcome the opportunity to benefit from the broad range of flexible career and development opportunities we can offer.
Improve efficiency through simplified and standardised policies, processes, and systems, drawing on the best from both Trusts.
Do things once and reduce any duplication on transactional tasks giving corporate staff the ability to focus on higher value and more diverse activities.
Co-invest in the latest digital solutions and standardise our approach, meaning we do things once for both organisations.
Improve learning and development opportunities and sharing best practice, upskilling both Trusts.
Co-locate teams in purpose-built facilities on the Island and in Portsmouth to enable closer working and sharing.
Build resilience for individuals and our teams.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool and access to our staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and Disability.

Date posted

10 October 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£47,810 to £54,710 a year

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

2 years

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

REF1757F

Job locations

Queen Alexandra Hospital, Southwick Hill Road

Cosham

PO6 3LY

Job description

Job responsibilities

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

Job description

Job responsibilities

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

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

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

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

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

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.