Job summary
- Main area
- Integration ** Rhapsody qualification, SQL
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- 12 months (fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0122
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- ST Annes
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £53,034 - £59,593 Per annum including HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Senior Integration Analyst
NHS AfC: Band 7
Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:
- Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
- Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
- Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
- Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
- Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
- Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do
We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.
The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/
Job overview
North London Foundation NHS Trust is seeking to implement a new Electronic Patient Record (EPR). The EPR will be implemented across the Trust in order to improve quality & safety and to enable efficient working practises, leading to better patient experiences.
The EPR implementation forms an integral part of an innovative and exciting transformation programme that will provide a comprehensive digital experience, incorporating the full range of functionality required to deliver excellent patient care.
This role works in the EPR Programme Team and its purpose is to manage the integration and interfacing activities for the programme and subsequent projects.
The post holder is responsible for designing, developing and maintaining the patient data interfaces (mostly HL7) between the Trust’s main clinical systems (current - iPM and iCM; Future – Enterprise EPR TBC) and various clinical systems inside and outside the Trust.
The post holder will ensure the day-to-day running and the correct operation of the interfaces contained in the Trust integration engines. It is essential that the post holder has Rhapsody skills and experience.
The post holder will work closely with the relevant technical and non-technical staff in order to ensure the current requirements are met, discuss and document future requirements, and report on progress and the status of any work being carried out and overall system performance
Main duties of the job
• Design, develop and maintain data transfer interfaces within the Trust’s integration engines using data formats such as HL7, FHIR, XML, and communication protocols such as REST, SOAP, M(L)LP
Working for our organisation
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
- We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• Design, develop and maintain data transfer interfaces within the Trust’s integration engines using data formats such as HL7, FHIR, XML, and communication protocols such as REST, SOAP, M(L)LP
• Design and plan new interfaces as required, to include quality assurance, unit testing, integration testing, regression testing and signoff
• Co-ordinate the design, creation and maintenance of mapping tables used by the integration engines to translate data between systems. This will involve working closely with the system application managers and other technical staff.
• Help to ensure the interfaces and their management are supportive all governance and security policies and procedures.
• To monitor the day-to-day running and usage of data interfaces and integration engines
• Discuss, design, develop, document and maintain programs, views or mechanisms to monitor various interfaces in the Trust’s integration engines and ensure the smooth running of the interfaces
• To deal with any issues arising and notifying any users of planned or unplanned downtime. This would generally involve liaison with the Digital department
• Produce a post-mortem on the occurrence of any unplanned downtime
• To be available for on-call duties (involving the possibility of call outs) if required
• To provide support for any issues arising from planned or unplanned down time
This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Person specification
shortlisting
Essential criteria
- Integration experience
- SQL
- HL7 understanding
Desirable criteria
- Rhapsody
- Cache Objective script
shortlisting
Essential criteria
- HL7 experience
testing
Essential criteria
- SQL
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lynn Blinkhorn
- Job title
- Head of Business Systems
- Email address
- [email protected]