Software Integration Specialist

3 weeks ago


Wolverhampton, United Kingdom The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust Full time

Job summary

On a day-to-day basis provide hands on systems integration and interface development, testing, maintenance and support to the Acute Trust and Community.

A substantial part of this role will require the understanding and testing of interfaces between our Patient Administration System and many hospital and community health systems, so would suit either a developer or an experienced analyst who wishes to increase their technical knowledge.

The postholder will work closely with personnel from IT, clinical services and third-party system suppliers to ensure that all interfaces function correctly.

Experience with BizTalk or other integration engine technologies, HL7 messaging, SQL Server and Visual

The post holder will take part in the planning and implementation of upgrades and new deployments of interfaces; and their third line support enabling 24 x 7 operation and ensuring the provision of near-100% availability.

The development of system interfaces will be under the direction of the Senior Software Architect and will be driven by the ICT work programme.

The post holder must have the ability to use a variety of integration/interface methods and it would be a distinct advantage to have knowledge of common communications protocols including TCP/IP, MLLP, HTTPS and FTP.

The role requires an understanding of a variety of system platforms, technologies and standards; of which database structures and HL7 messaging standards are fundamentally important.

Main duties of the job

Undertake systems integration development including database and application level developments, enhancements and additions to the Trust integration engines; and the testing thereof.

Provide 3rd line support for the Trust integration engines, system interfaces, bespoke systems and databases.

Production and maintenance of both technical and user documentation and procedures, ensuring that they are kept up to date.

Maintenance of the Trust's integration engines and interfaces.

About us

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as "Good" by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description/Person Specification for a full detail of role and main responsibilities

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to Degree level

Desirable

Specialist knowledge acquired through post-graduate courses & experience to masters equivalent level

Experience

Essential

Extensive experience of systems integration, applications development and database design (including SQL) as part of complex system and software development and implementation. Knowledge and experience of maintaining database systems including all aspects of security (user level and encryption accordingly). Knowledge and experience of HL7 in a hospital environment Customer and supplier contact skills - face-to-face contact, telephone communication skills. Able to take part in meetings Extensive knowledge of interface engine technologies, HL7 messaging, SQL Server (including Integration Services), database design, XML, Visual Basic, C#, BizTalk installation, configuration and development. Knowledge of common communications protocols including TCP/IP, MLLP and FTP. Knowledge of development software & development cycle

Desirable

Experience in a health information environment or similar Able to lead meetings Working knowledge of procedures, service levels agreements.

Communication Skills

Essential

High level of interpersonal skills. Communicates about ICT development projects with internal and external stakeholders, to establish their buy in to application developments, timelines and resource requirements Communicates effectively within a team environment

Flexibility

Essential

Ability to work flexibly particularly when projects are about to go live. Willing to work in a flexible manner as and when required.

Desirable

Able to work in an organisation that is continually changing and striving to change. Ability to be able to deal with and respond effectively to unplanned interruptions.

Other

Essential

Ability to lead, develop and work within a team environment. Able to work under own initiative and judgement at all times Able to concentrate for prolonged periods of their work checking computer coding, plans, test schedules, risk registers etc. This will involve highly complex information that needs prolonged on intense concentration, and require post holder to be at VDU for most of the working day.

Desirable

Could require flexible working between multiple sites.

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