Job Summary
Patients are at the centre of everything we do. An Electronic Health Record System (EHRS) will help to ensure that we continue to get better at delivering services and treatment plans designed around patient needs.Our vision is to create a digitally enabled organisation that supports the delivery of efficient and effective patient care, achieved through easy-to-use systems that provide staff and patients with access to the right information, in the right place, at the right time.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for passionate individuals to design and develop interfaces, ensuring the EHRS is fully integrated with other core Trust systems, as well as other systems across the wider healthcare sector, enabling us to deliver the benefits to our patients and staff.
You will be expected to be able to design, develop, test and implement healthcare integrations adhering to the Trust Change Management Process.
You must have previous experience of interface development, design and architecture using HL7 and other healthcare standards.Our EHRS provider Epic will train you specifically on their ‘Bridges’ interface module
About us
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
- University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
- National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
- Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
- University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
- Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
- University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
- The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
- University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Qualifications
Essential
- Masters level competence in IT systems or equivalent experience
- Principles and procedures of software development lifecycle and its standardisation
- In-depth knowledge of specific IM&T systems with the ability to make judgements on complex problems that are without precedent
Desirable
- Prince2 and/or MSP equivalent experience
- Working in a large and complex organisation (over 2,000) staff multi-disciplinary teams
- Expertise with current interfacing technologies
- Technical knowledge of current healthcare integration engines
- Technical expertise in the development of healthcare interfaces
- Expertise in healthcare interface standards for messaging (HL7, FHIR, etc.)
- Working knowledge of interface development environments and associated management platforms
- Familiarity with NHS business processes and procedures
Experience
Essential
- Experience in managing complex software development
- Experience of managing 3rd party suppliers to delivery of complex work packages
- Proven ability to deliver to tight deadlines
- Experience of complex implementations requiring minimum disruption to end users
- Proven ability to analyse a broad range of management information and identify recommendation actions
- Analysis of complex data and presentation of this data and reports across the organisation.
- Prior experience of interpreting technical & professional IM&T policies, for non-technical staff
- Experience of Stakeholder Management
Desirable
- Significant experience in a software development role focused on interface production
- In-depth knowledge of IM&T systems and procedures acquired through a combination of specialist training and relevant study to degree or equivalent level
- Technical knowledge of interface development design and architecture
- Leading and/or organising multidisciplinary teams
- Excellent knowledge of Trust business
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Understanding of complex IT systems
- Excellent presentation skills
- Ability to manage a technically complex project being able to deal with differing granularity at the same time; conceptual, high level project and detailed, low level projects
- Expertise in clinical interfacing standards including HL7 and FHIR
- Ability to negotiate complex priorities with the Contractor dealing with complex or conflicting information
- Ability to work on own initiative with minimum supervision
- Ability to work under pressure dealing with changing & sometimes conflicting priorities
- Customer relationship skills
- Significant technical ability on complex enterprise IT systems
Desirable
- Expertise with current healthcare interfacing platforms
- Ability to interpret complex technology for non-IM&T staff at all levels up to and including Executive board level
- Ability to manage and control competing objectives within the technical programme where opinions may vary
- Ability to make swift decisions based on prior experience and knowledge without reference to manager, and the temperament to defend those decisions
Communication
Essential
- Strong interpersonal skills, effective communication and follow-up skills
- The ability to lead meetings, prioritise tasks and resolve conflicts
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
- Good people skills; able to effectively communicate at all levels
Personal and People Development
Essential
- Create personal goals and objectives
- Review goals and achievements on regular basis and maintain a personal development plan
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Closing Date: 02 January 2025
