Integration / EPR Specialist
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Job description
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., + 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 Trust's System Integration and Application Support environment liaising with the Integration Team and Application Support Team.
- Provide a support function related to Trust's electronic document delivery strategy liaising with GP providers and partner Trusts.
- Provide a support function for the Trust's EPR system liaising with healthcare providers and members of the Informatics Team.
- Represent the Trust in System User Groups and to ensure that the Trust's interests are communicated to a wider system user base. The vision of this Trust is to be recognised by the people of Bolton and beyond as an excellent provider of health and care services and a great place to work. We are striving to attract, recruit and retain high calibre skilled staff which reflect our communities. We are an inclusive employer who trains and develops our staff in a positive learning environment. We thrive on cultivating cultural architecture, if you have the right skills, attitudes and behaviours, in line with our Trust values, we welcome and appreciate the diversity you bring to our organisation. We offer a wide range of staff benefits please click on the link below to see what current benefits we have. Staff benefits - Bolton NHS FT (boltonft.nhs.uk) From time to time we may need to close a vacancy early when in receipt of a sufficient number of applications. If you are interested in this post and wish to be considered, we strongly advise you to complete and submit your application as soon as possible.
Requirements
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. The role also requires C# and JavaScript programming skills to develop and maintain system interfaces. Experience of Windows Server platform and SQL Database technologies is also required.
