Job summary
NHS Band 7: Salary £49,387 - £56,515 per
annum
Hours per Week: Full time 37.5
Fixed Term Contract: 24 months
Location: Your
base location will be either IWT or PHU, but we support a hybrid approach to
working which includes remotely.
Closing Date:
21st May 2026 (vacancy may close earlier if sufficient applications
received)
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:
- Isle of Wight NHS Trust (IWT)
- Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust (PHU)
- Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (HHFT)
- 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.
Main duties of the job
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.
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 single corporate service is delivered across both
organisations. You may be based at either IWT or PHU and individuals may
be required to undertake business travel between sites. For leaders managing
staff across multi-site locations, you will need to be visible and provide in
person leadership. The arrangements and frequency will be agreed locally.
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job purpose
IWT and PHU Trusts have started a journey to share PHUs
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 trusts integration engine, InterSystems Health Connect.
- Design, build, test and deploy new features for in-house applications to align with IWTs 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job purpose
IWT and PHU Trusts have started a journey to share PHUs
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 trusts integration engine, InterSystems Health Connect.
- Design, build, test and deploy new features for in-house applications to align with IWTs 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.
Person Specification
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- 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.
Qualifications
Essential
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience required.
Experience
Essential
- 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 scrip ng 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.
Person Specification
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- 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.
Qualifications
Essential
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience required.
Experience
Essential
- 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 scrip ng 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.
