Integration Analyst – IT Clinical Services: Sponsorship Available

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

Are you an IT professional with a development background and experience or interest in healthcare integration? Do you want to learn something new and take on a challenge? Does improving and supporting patients’ healthcare make you happy? If so, join us as an Integration Engineer in our ITCS Technology-Integration Team and help build integrations between specialist systems and EpicThis is a genuinely exciting opportunity to be involved in developing and supporting the integration of clinical systems across the hospitals under GSTT and KCH NHS Foundation Trusts.

The role involves analysing integration messages and technologies, working with ITCS teams, the NHS community, and suppliers (eg, labs, imaging, prescribing) to integrate systems with the Epic EHR via Epic Bridges and InterSystems HealthConnect. You will work on new integration projects and support existing ones across the two Trusts.

You will be a team player, able to work independently, and mentor colleagues from diverse backgrounds. This role involves meeting project deadlines and can be challenging. You must juggle multiple, sometimes conflicting deadlines and maintain strong relationships with the end-user community and programme team. Strong communication skills, including the ability to break down barriers of understanding across teams are essential.We seek motivated individuals eager to learn and enthusiastic about healthcare informatics, ready to engage with ITCS colleagues and share their enthusiasm.

 

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for development, testing,maintenance, deployment and support of the Integration Engine interfaces across the Enterprise as well as supporting Epic Bridges interfaces across both Trusts. The incumbent will manage Interfaces service desk tickets in accordance with trust SLAs and handling of Epic Bridges Error triaging. This involves collaborating with relevant ITCS teams and assisting in clearing Bridges error work queues. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring theinterface documentation is consistently updated.Additionally, the post holder will oversee the impact of interfaces during Epic upgrades in the Trust, controlling the interface delivery life cycle, and communicating any significant changes with the Work stream Leads.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to a degree level or equivalent or experience

Desirable

  • Master’s Degree or Equivalent
  • HL7/HealthCare Integration Certification

Experience

Essential

  • Significant demonstrable software, Interfaces development experience
  • Significant demonstrable experience in HL7 messaging

Desirable

  • Experience within the NHS or similar Healthcare setting
  • Epic Bridges or InterSystems HealthConnect experience

Skills

Essential

  • HL7 Interface development skills using technologies like .Net, Java, ObjectScript etc.
  • Understanding of Integration project delivery stages

Desirable

  • SQL/RDBMS knowledge/Scripting

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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: 27 June 2025

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