Isle of Wight NHS Trust

Integration Specialist (Senior Developer)

The closing date is 02 April 2026

Job summary

This vacancy is open to employees of Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust only.

NHS Band 7: £49,387 - £56,515 per annum (effective from 01/04/2026)

Hours Per Week: 37.5 hours full time

Contract Type: Fixed Term until 31st December 2027

Hybrid working: 2 days working from home and 3 days on site either at Lakeside North Harbour or St Marys Hospital Isle of Wight.

Closing Date: 2nd April 2026 (vacancy may close earlier if sufficient applications received)

IWT and PHU Trusts have started a journey to share PHUs in-house developed EPR in readiness for a single EPR across the region. The Systems Integration Specialist will be a key player in the Trusts strategic goal to converge to a single EPR. This will involve working with Product Owners to support new feature requests to assist with feature parity with IWTs current EPR.

Main duties of the job

Specific Core Functions:

Design, build, test and deploy integration solutions in the trusts integration engine, InterSystems Health Connect. Experience in designing and building in an integration engine is essential, with experience in InterSystems Health Connect desirable.
Engage with product owners to understand requirements and convert into User Stories as part of the Agile process
Stay current on new digital technologies, and new healthcare interoperability standards
Maintain an understanding of Trust-wide applications as well as those applications with which they interface.
Create/ use case specific implementation guides in accordance with HL7 standards including FHIR.
Maintain interfaces based on user requirement changes, and/or modifications to data formats, or protocols, of either the sending or receiving systems in both on-premises and cloud-based architectures.

About us

Working as a partnership, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this.

The single corporate service is delivered across both organisations. You can choose to be based at either IWT or PHU and individuals may be required to undertake business travel between sites.

The vision for our single corporate services is to:

Be an employer of choice for corporate talent, attracting and retaining people who share our values for excellence in care and welcome the opportunity to benefit from the broad range of flexible career and development opportunities we can offer.
Improve efficiency through simplified and standardised policies, processes, and systems, drawing on the best from both Trusts.
Do things once and reduce any duplication on transactional tasks giving corporate staff the ability to focus on higher value and more diverse activities.
Co-invest in the latest digital solutions and standardise our approach, meaning we do things once for both organisations.
Improve learning and development opportunities and sharing best practice, upskilling both Trusts.
Co-locate teams in purpose-built facilities on the Island and in Portsmouth to enable closer working and sharing.
Build resilience for individuals and our teams.

Date posted

06 March 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£49,387 to £56,515 a year (effective from 01/04/2026)

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

2 years

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

REF2094T

Job locations

Queen Alexandra Hospital

Southwick Hill Road

Cosham

Portsmouth

PO6 3LY

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job purpose:

The Systems Integration Specialist will be a key player in the trusts strategic goal to converge to a single EPR. This will involve working with system suppliers to identify any new data flows required to link key systems as well as migrating integration solutions across different integration platforms.

Job summary

Stay current on new digital technologies, and new healthcare interoperability standards and Maintain an understanding of trust-wide applications as well as those applications with which they interface.

Create use case specific implementation guides in accordance with HL7 standards including FHIR

Maintain interfaces based on user requirement changes, and/or modifications to data formats, or protocols, of either the sending or receiving systems in both on-premises and cloud-based architectures.

Specific Core Functions:

Working with EPR, PAS, laboratory and other clinical systems identifying the most appropriate method and product to satisfy individual integration requirements.
Participate in development specifications such as user story and task design.
Fully responsible for unit testing, working with systems analysts to confirm successful data flows.
Develop unit tests to accurately test business logic and functionality.
Day to day management of the interfaces maximising uptime.

Key Responsibilities:

Communication and Working Relationships:

The post holder will be providing and receiving complex, sensitive information, where persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training, empathic or re-assurance skills are required. This may be because agreement or cooperation is required or because there are barriers to understanding and/or providing and receiving highly complex information.

Analytical and Judgement:

Judgements involving complex facts or situations, which require the analysis, interpretation, and comparison of a range of options.

Planning and organising:

Planning and organisation of a broad range of complex activities or programmes, some of which are ongoing, which require the formulation and adjustment of plans or strategies.

Physical Skills:

The post requires physical skills which are normally obtained through practice over a period of time or during practical training e.g. keyboard skills, use of some tools and types of equipment.

For full details of this position please refer to enclosed Job Description.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job purpose:

Job summary

Create use case specific implementation guides in accordance with HL7 standards including FHIR

Specific Core Functions:

Working with EPR, PAS, laboratory and other clinical systems identifying the most appropriate method and product to satisfy individual integration requirements.
Participate in development specifications such as user story and task design.
Fully responsible for unit testing, working with systems analysts to confirm successful data flows.
Develop unit tests to accurately test business logic and functionality.
Day to day management of the interfaces maximising uptime.

Key Responsibilities:

Communication and Working Relationships:

Analytical and Judgement:

Judgements involving complex facts or situations, which require the analysis, interpretation, and comparison of a range of options.

Planning and organising:

Planning and organisation of a broad range of complex activities or programmes, some of which are ongoing, which require the formulation and adjustment of plans or strategies.

Physical Skills:

The post requires physical skills which are normally obtained through practice over a period of time or during practical training e.g. keyboard skills, use of some tools and types of equipment.

For full details of this position please refer to enclosed Job Description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field or equivalent experience required.

Experience

Essential

Database Experience: Ability to Read and Write complex SQL code.
Database Experience Preferred: Microsoft SQL Server.
Network Experience: Ability to investigate and diagnose connectivity issues using tools such as netstat, etc.
Some knowledge of LANs, WANs, VPNs, and load balancing.
Adequate relevant experience with standard health care formats (CCDA, HL7, etc. ) to enable the autonomy required in this role.
Verifiable experience with programming and scripting required.
Experience in a health care systems environment is required.
Demonstrable understanding of Interface Concepts (both end user and data)
Demonstrable ability to work and communicate effectively with both technical and business audiences.

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

Must have proven applied knowledge in a combination of two or more of the following areas: XML , C#, SOAP, REST, SQL, JSON, HL7/CCDA
Must have an extensive knowledge with Healthcare Interface Engines, Web languages, scripting and web development.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field or equivalent experience required.

Experience

Essential

Database Experience: Ability to Read and Write complex SQL code.
Database Experience Preferred: Microsoft SQL Server.
Network Experience: Ability to investigate and diagnose connectivity issues using tools such as netstat, etc.
Some knowledge of LANs, WANs, VPNs, and load balancing.
Adequate relevant experience with standard health care formats (CCDA, HL7, etc. ) to enable the autonomy required in this role.
Verifiable experience with programming and scripting required.
Experience in a health care systems environment is required.
Demonstrable understanding of Interface Concepts (both end user and data)
Demonstrable ability to work and communicate effectively with both technical and business audiences.

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

Must have proven applied knowledge in a combination of two or more of the following areas: XML , C#, SOAP, REST, SQL, JSON, HL7/CCDA
Must have an extensive knowledge with Healthcare Interface Engines, Web languages, scripting and web development.

Employer details

Employer name

Isle of Wight NHS Trust

Address

Queen Alexandra Hospital

Southwick Hill Road

Cosham

Portsmouth

PO6 3LY

Employer's website

https://www.iow.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Isle of Wight NHS Trust

Address

Queen Alexandra Hospital

Southwick Hill Road

Cosham

Portsmouth

PO6 3LY

Employer's website

https://www.iow.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)