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 arrangements and frequency will be agreed locally.

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. 

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

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

Full-time - 37.5 hours per week 

Fixed Term Contract – until 31st December 2027 

Hybrid working: 2 days working from home and 3 days on site either at Lakeside North Harbour or St Mary’s 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 PHU’s 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.

Specific Core Functions

• Design, build, test and deploy integration solutions in the trust’s 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-premise and cloud based architectures

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

Qualifications

Experience 

Verifiable experience with programming and scripting required.

Experience in a health care systems environment is required.

Adequate relevant experience with standard health care formats (HL7, FHIR etc.) to enable the autonomy required in this role. 

Demonstrable understanding of Interface Concepts (both end user and data)

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.

Demonstrable ability to work and communicate effectively with both technical and business audiences.

Knowledge

Must have proven applied knowledge in a combination of two or more of the following areas: XML, HL7, SOAP, REST, SQL, JSON, HL7/CCDA

Must have an extensive knowledge with Healthcare Interface Engines and the core principles, such as the importance of FIFO.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and Disability, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.