Job summary
North London Foundation NHS Trust is seeking to implement a new Electronic Patient Record (EPR). The EPR will be implemented across the Trust in order to improve quality & safety and to enable efficient working practises, leading to better patient experiences.
The EPR implementation forms an integral part of an innovative and exciting transformation programme that will provide a comprehensive digital experience, incorporating the full range of functionality required to deliver excellent patient care.
This role works in the EPR Programme Team and its purpose is to manage the integration and interfacing activities for the programme and subsequent projects.
The post holder is responsible for designing, developing and maintaining the patient data interfaces (mostly HL7) between the Trust's main clinical systems (current - iPM and iCM; Future - Enterprise EPR TBC) 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 Rhapsody skills and experience.
The post holder will work closely with the relevant technical and non-technical staff in order to ensure the current requirements are met, discuss and document future requirements, and report on progress and the status of any work being carried out and overall system performance
Main duties of the job
o 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
About us
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
- We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Design, develop and maintain data transfer interfaces within the Trusts 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 Trusts 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 Digital 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
This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Design, develop and maintain data transfer interfaces within the Trusts 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 Trusts 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 Digital 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
This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Person Specification
shortlisting
Essential
- Integration experience
- SQL
- HL7 understanding
Desirable
- Rhapsody
- Cache Objective script
shortlisting
Essential
testing
Essential
Person Specification
shortlisting
Essential
- Integration experience
- SQL
- HL7 understanding
Desirable
- Rhapsody
- Cache Objective script
shortlisting
Essential
testing
Essential
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
