Digital Integration Lead

The Shared Records Programme and Patient Portal deployment will run for a minimum of three years.

Act as lead for a small team responsible for designing, developing, testing, and maintaining shared records platforms across the Trust, using technologies including SQL Server, Oracle, NextGen (was Mirth), and other technologies as yet undetermined. An openness to learning is a key requirement for this role.

The post holder is required to document and maintain all service processes; this will require excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as a high degree of attention to detail.

EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;
- Season Ticket Loans
- NHS discounts for staff
- Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
- Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
- The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
- Day One Flexible Employer

Join our Staff bank

What is Staff Bank?

Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.

All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.

If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank
- This technical role requires the incumbent to design, develop, test and implement solutions using their expert knowledge associated with integration of clinical messages within an Integration Engine environment in line with the digital strategy.
- Maintain solutions directly related to the requirements of the development and integration team, and wider business.
- Analyse, capture and document user and business requirements, in both a technical and non-technical format for clinical and digital services consumers.
- Analyse, assess and feedback for digital services consumers the technical documentation provided by 3rd party suppliers.
- This position has freedom to work independent of managerial supervision, with day-to-day autonomy to manage the service, including responsibility for continuing development, improvement and expansion of the service.
- To ensure that all development, testing, and release is documented to the agreed standards, in line with departmental policies and processes.
- Maintenance and optimisation of the Trust integration engine(s) to ensure a standardised approach to the use of components and interfaces across all aspects of the systems landscape.
- Develop and maintain technical systems documentation including all critical data flows for use within digital services.
- To make decisions on the severity of faults and outages and notify the support services teams or otherwise escalate appropriately.
- Responsible for ensuring that development and integration policies are implemented and to assist and contribute to the upkeep of those policies.
- Promote the role of the Digital Services within the Trust.
- Provide support for all staff within the Digital Services teams, where appropriate.
- The use of advanced Keyboard and mouse skills across multiple environments and platforms.
- Any other duties as reasonably required by the Associate Director of Digital Service Development
- To provide training and guidance and to maintain technical knowledge and skill levels within the team, passing on own knowledge in training sessions, where appropriate.
- Responsibility for the management and delivery of allocated projects using recognised project management methodologies used within Digital Services.
- Line management responsibilities of the Digital Integration Specialist roles.
- Responsible for the ownership and maintenance of the Integration development environments, such as the databases and servers and ensure the relevant software is maintained and updated.
- The post requires frequent long periods of concentration to analyse and implement new solutions or when resolving service failures.
- The post holder will receive and interpret highly complex statistical information regarding clinical systems performance providing recommendations and expert advice to the Infrastructure Team members and IT Management teams as appropriate.
- To communicate and present complex development and integration solutions to wide ranging individuals, such as nurses, clinicians, administrative and executive staff in a simplified way.
- Responsible for providing specific technical input regarding development and integration requirements to third party suppliers.
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