EHRS Interface Analyst

Patients are at the centre of everything we do. Our Electronic Health Record System (EHRS) helps us 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

To help achieve this vision, we are looking for a passionate individual to work as Interface Analyst to configure the interfaces so that the EHRS is fully integrated with core systems and delivers the benefits to our patients and staff.

You will also help test the interfaces prior to it going live to ensure they work as expected against HL-7 and other healthcare standards. You need to have previous experience of interface development, design and architecture; however, development experience in other similar roles and/or experience working in an application or training capacity will be considered. Our EHRS provider Epic will train you specifically on their 'Bridges' interface module.

If successful, you will be offered this exciting role and will transfer over on your current terms and conditions. You will receive your annual increments in line with the agenda for change. This role is full time for a fixed term until December 2025.

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:

1. University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
2. National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
3. Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
4. University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
5. Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
6. University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
7. The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
8. 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.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.

Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff.

UCLH has been recognized as the top trust to work at in England for the second year running!

*In the most recent NHS staff survey, UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England for the second year in a row.

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) in 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 deliver complex work packages
• Proven ability to deliver to tight deadlines
• Proven ability to analyse a broad range of management information and identify recommendation actions
• Experience of complex implementations requiring minimum disruption to end users
• 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 a regular basis and maintain a personal development plan

Employer details

Employer name

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

UCLH, Maple House

149 Tottenham Court Road

London

W1T 7NF

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309-UCLH-5574