Senior Integration Specialist

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Integration and Development team at West Suffolk Hospital.

Our Trust is one of the NHS Global Digital Exemplar sites. This internationally recognised award was given to hospitals delivering improvements in quality of care through world-class use of digital technologies.

We are a local leader in integration of hospital systems both within and outside of our trust. As the only hospital in Suffolk with a full Electronic Patient Record, we can offer the chance to develop sophisticated integration with other systems.

We are looking for a talented developer to join us on a permanent basis. They will be working on several projects and initiatives to help support the clinical teams around the hospital deliver safer patient care more efficiently. Solutions to these issues are often complex and will require excellent problem-solving skills that go beyond good code and technical knowledge.

The candidate will likely have thorough knowledge of JavaScript, MSSQL, HTML, XML/XSL, JSON & HL7v2. They will, ideally, be familiar with the Lyniate Rhapsody integration engine, or another integration engine such as Iguana or Mirth.

Other experience with a development IDE such as Visual Studio alongside experience of a platform such as Azure Dev Ops would be advantageous. Our EPR is Cerner Millennium and knowledge of that system would be very helpful.

Main duties of the job

To maintain, develop and enhance a wide range of business-critical integrations within the Lyniate Rhapsody integration engine and Cerner Millennium Open View, taking into account defined user requirements

To make and modify EDI definitions within the Rhapsody Integration engine

To develop new and enhanced integration solutions using existing tools and technologies

To collaborate with external suppliers of existing and new integration solutions

To support integration BAU processes such as bug fixes, errors and service requests with both internal teams and 3rdparty suppliers.

To participate in the internal change control process

Document new solutions or changes and make those available to other team members via SharePoint

To maintain and improve existing software development practices

To write MS SQL queries to return date and update tables

To write JavaScript to work with different types of date (e.g., HL7v2, XML, JSON)

To develop understanding of the tools and technologies that can be used within the integration and interoperability sphere such as FHIR, MESH and NHS Transfer of Care

To translate the requirements of different workstreams in the trust to an integration workflow and to liaise with those workstreams to understand how this might affect clinical workflows within the trust

To develop further understanding of leading and upcoming technologies that could potentially enhance the Trusts integration service

About us

#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community

We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.

The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.

Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.

We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.

With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.

We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.

Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?