Applications Development Lead-Integration/Technical Architect

at  Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

JOB OVERVIEW

The Applications Team at St George’s is looking for an experienced Technical Development Lead to join the Information and Digital Technology Applications Team. The successful applicant will:

• be a key member of the Applications Technical Team, integrating clinical and non-clinical systems used in the delivery of patient care, and to ensure that interface activities deliver the required business benefits.
• drive innovative solutions by leading on the development of the interfaces, technical and solution architecture that includes Cerner Millennium, other applications systems, including technical architectures between Cerner Millennium and other systems and devices supported by IDT, but not limited to these alone.
• be responsible for the day-to-day monitoring of the Trust Integration Engine (TIE), and manage any alerts, errors, queues, issues noticed on the TIE or reported by others.
• will provide technical expertise to enable the design, configuration of software, other system components and equipment for systems testing, taking into consideration national, regional, Trust and supplier data standards and architectures.
• will develop all technical documentation such as system high-level and low-level design, collaborating with internal technical and external teams to develop and agree these, including any plans for the way forward.

DESIRABLE CRITERIA

• Knowledge of interface requirements for links to the EPR for downstream clinical systems such as Pathology, Radiology, Cancer, and other specialties
  Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
  References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
  Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
  Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
  DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

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APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

• Support project initiatives across all areas of the trust – calling on a breadth of knowledge and leading on complex applications integration and interfacing activities.
• Management / Resource Management:
• The postholder may have line management responsibilities and be accountable for directing day to day activities of assigned project team and support staff (aligning capacity and capability to priorities)
• Engage with the wider ICT team in particular aspects of their own projects, and support as appropriate.
• A positive and pro-active self-starter who operates from a ‘how can I add I value’ mindset.
• Act as an ambassador and exemplar for all IDT / Infrastructure related activity and services
• Support the collaborative working agenda within the ‘GESH’ hospitals group – at times working directly with staff from Epsom and St Helier Hospital Trust.

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• You will create, enhance and maintain the Trust Integration Engine which primarily, but not exclusively, links Cerner Millennium with other clinical systems at the Trust and beyond, via custom and standardised TCP messaging, email and file transfer. Maintenance includes but is not limited to, maintenance releases and upgrades by the TIE vendor, InterSystems, or another TIE vendor if the Trust changes the TIE supplier. The TIE contains confidential patient data so the post holder must adhere to Caldicott and Trust security policies regarding the handling of sensitive data.
• You will participate in the full cycle of application interface development including investigating current processes, gathering user requirements, system design, testing, performance tuning, modification, deployment, support and documentation. This requires a strong understanding of a spectrum of ICT technologies, and also of targeted NHS business processes.
• You will assist in the management, support and maintenance of other in-house systems including the Trust Legacy EPR, until such time as all functions have been fully integrated into the Trust flagship PAS/EPR (Cerner Millennium), a process that has been underway with varying degrees of priority for 10 years.
• You will apply your application knowledge and expertise to proactively manage and support customers’ requirements. Including, but not limited to, information and advice on changes to the application, design, support, national and local standards, application solutions for clinical workflow and clinical care and testing of applications.
• You will develop and maintain your own analytical and technical skills employing these to aid Trust decision making processes.
• You will use your professional skills to work efficiently and cooperatively to meet customers’ information needs through the provision of regular reports, updates on the department incident and change management system, advice and ad-hoc analyses.
• You will own the process of seeking requirements from non-technical stakeholders, translating them into technical requirements for suppliers and resources, and navigating the process of risk and issue resolution for delivery of sustainable solutions.
• You will manage incident and problem management from requests through to sustainable solutions.
  You will have the judgement to understand which tasks and issues should be prioritised to keep the Trust safe and for efficient delivery of both projects and BAU requests.