JOB OVERVIEW

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated individual to join our Digital Team. This role is part of a Team who are responsible supporting and delivering integration for clinical applications and projects.
We are looking for individuals with excellent technical and communication skills. The post holder is responsible for designing, developing and maintaining the patient data interfaces (mostly HL7) between the Trust’s main clinical systems (iCLIP Pro) 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 Mirth skills and experience

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Excellent communication skills and ability to liaise with others outside immediate team
• Excellent problem solving, bug fixing, and analytical skills
• Ability to work on own initiative
  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

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

• 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
• 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 Trust’s 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 ICT 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

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification.
The recruiting team reserve the right to close this advertisement early once applications reach maximum limit.