Integration Lead Analyst

Job description

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

Barts Health supports the Pregnancy Loss Pledge and commits to supporting their staff through the distress of miscarriage.

We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.

Job overview

Integration Lead Analyst (Clinical Systems)
Barts Health is seeking an Integration Lead to contribute to the delivery and resilience of digital systems and services across the Trust. This senior technical role is accountable to the Integration Team Manager within the Clinical Systems department.

The integration team is responsible for support and development of the business critical integration function, providing links between the Oracle (formerly Cerner)
Millennium Electronic Health Record and various other systems, both within and outside Barts Health.
The successful candidate will have a software development background, service management experience, experience designing and building interfaces using an integration engine within a healthcare environment, and experience managing or supervising junior staff.

The role operates on a hybrid working model (requiring 2 days on-site per week at Mile End Hospital and 3 days remote). Following induction and onboarding, participation in a scheduled remote on-call rota is required to ensure out-of-hours service continuity.

Main duties of the job

Analysis of new requirements and high-level design of integration solutions
• Lead the design, development, and assurance of interfaces using
InterSystems HealthShare / Health Connect / Ensemble including coding in
ObjectScript and other languages
• Oversee HL7 v2 and FHIR integrations across Trust systems and partner
organisations
• Analyse, extract and report on data related to integration solutions using SQL
• Provide support and liaise with project deployment teams to assist in all
phases of implementation projects. Participate in implementation planning
activities, including the integration element of new solutions and regression
test planning.
• Provide senior technical leadership for interoperability with Oracle (Cerner)
Millennium, including messaging workflows and API-based integration
• Lead resolution of complex integration issues to minimise clinical service
disruption
• Maintain governance of interface documentation, configuration records, and
integration standards
• Provide expert advice to senior stakeholders on integration architecture and
data standards
• Help manage, mentor and support analysts within the integration team
• Liaise and negotiate with suppliers, lead users and colleagues across multiple
organisations

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For an informal discussion about this role please contact Colin Ghiotti, Integration Team Manager, on 07732 578422.

We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• A relevant first-degree, or equivalent qualification or experience plus relevant post graduate qualification or experience
• ITIL green badge equivalent in service management
• InterSystems training and qualifications or equivalent from other integration engine suppliers

Desirable criteria

• PRINCE2 foundation equivalent in project management

Experience

Essential criteria

• Effective communication and influencing skills. Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information
• Good presentation and facilitation skills
• Strong systems analysis skills
• Extensive experience as an NHS healthcare informatics professional in development and support roles
• Experience of leadership on design and development and implementation of multiple significant clinical system integration solutions
• Broad understanding of NHS clinical and administrative processes.
• Experience in management of development staff

Desirable criteria

• Experience in integration function management
• NHS data standards and reporting requirements

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Trained in the full range of IT disciplines including system analysis, system design, programming, testing and implementation, gained through extensive experience in an IT development environment
• Expert highly developed specialised knowledge of InterSystems IRIS for Health / HealthShare / Ensemble or a similar platform
• Expert knowledge of HL7 messaging

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of Oracle Health (Cerner) Millennium internals
• Knowledge of primary care (GP) systems

Skills

Essential criteria

• The ability to understand highly complex and often ill-defined problems, and to resolve them quickly by clear logical analysis and imaginative, efficient solutions
• Competence in ITIL Change and Problem management
• Significant technical ability on complex enterprise clinical systems.
• Keyboard or alternative computer input device proficiency
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to communicate well with clinical and corporate staff at all levels and with suppliers

Other

Essential criteria

• Confident, robust and resilient and with the drive to complete
• Open minded with a positive attitude
• Well organised with a professional approach
• Capable of independent judgement
• Knowledge of equality diversity and inclusion and an understanding of its importance
• Effective leadership, interpersonal and communication skills

Visa Sponsorship Information

This role is subject to UK immigration requirements. Where sponsorship is required, applicants must meet the eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visa in accordance with current UK Visas and Immigration rules, including any salary, qualification, and role-specific requirements applicable at the time of appointment. Candidates who require sponsorship will only be considered where the post is eligible and where all sponsorship criteria can be met. Evidence of the right to work in the UK will be required before appointment. Please note that for roles employed under Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions, the High-Cost Area Supplement (HCAS) is not included when calculating the basic salary for the purposes of sponsorship.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment where staff treat one another with dignity and respect. We aim to create an equitable working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential.

As an Equal Opportunities Employer we actively support applications from individuals' who apply under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme and will process your application as appropriate.

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications has been received and we regret that we are unable to provide notification if your application is unsuccessful.

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By applying for this post you are agreeing to Barts Health NHS Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Barts Health is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and to child protection. The Trust aims to ensure as far as is possible that anyone, paid or unpaid, who seeks to work in our organisation and who gains access to children, is safe to do so. As such, you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Check as part of the recruitment process if appointed to a post with direct access to children or vulnerable adults.

Barts Health promotes active travel as part of its goal to reach Net Zero. Each site is accessible by public transport and the Trust has a cycle to work scheme and some sites have Brompton Hire Pods.

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