Junior integration engineer

Band 5 · Integration engineer (health interoperability) · 335 job evaluation points

A junior integration engineer builds, tests, and supports integrations between health and care systems, working from specifications and with guidance from more experienced engineers.

Responsibilities

Build and change message mappings, transformations, and API calls from agreed specifications.
Test integrations against specifications and sample messages, including error and edge cases.
Monitor message flows, investigate failed or rejected messages, and resolve or escalate them.
Handle health data securely, following information governance rules for live and test data.
Record changes and test results so they can be used as clinical safety evidence.

Skills

Skill	Expected level	What this level means
Systems integrationUK GDaD PCF	Working (2)	You can: build and test simple interfaces between systems work on more complex integration as part of a wider team
Programming and build (software engineering)UK GDaD PCF	Working (2)	You can: design, code, test, correct and document simple programs or scripts under the direction of others
TestingUK GDaD PCF	Working (2)	You can: review requirements and specifications, and define test conditions identify issues and risks associated with work analyse and report test activities and results
Service supportUK GDaD PCF	Working (2)	You can: help fix service faults following agreed procedures carry out maintenance tasks on service support infrastructure
Information securityUK GDaD PCF	Awareness (1)	You can: explain information security and the security controls available to protect solutions and services
Health data interoperabilityThis reference	Working (2)	You can: read and use FHIR resources, profiles, and APIs build or test simple integrations under guidance check messages against a specification
Clinical terminology and classificationThis reference	Awareness (1)	You can: explain the difference between a clinical terminology and a classification recognize common terminologies such as SNOMED CT and ICD
Information governance and data protectionThis reference	Working (2)	You can: apply data protection principles to your work contribute to data protection impact assessments handle information requests and records correctly
Clinical risk managementThis reference	Awareness (1)	You can: explain how health IT systems can harm patients, for example through wrong, missing, or delayed information report a possible clinical safety issue through the right route
Understanding health and care servicesThis reference	Awareness (1)	You can: describe the main parts of the health and care system and the services the organization supports explain why patient safety and confidentiality matter in your work

Typical qualifications and experience

A degree in computing or a related subject, a completed apprenticeship, or equivalent experience.

Band 5 outline

Knowledge: Professional or technical knowledge, typically from a degree or equivalent experience.
Autonomy: Works to broad objectives within professional standards; plans own work.
Scope: Own professional work within a team or product.
Leadership: May guide and check the work of support staff and apprentices.
Accountability: Quality of own professional work.

Job evaluation (illustrative)

Factor	Level	Level summary	Points
Communication and relationship skills	4	Gives complex, sensitive, or contentious information needing persuasion, negotiation, or training skills, or highly complex information.	32
Knowledge, training, and experience	5	Expertise in a specialism, underpinned by theory or practical experience (degree level or equivalent).	120
Analytical and judgmental skills	3	Judgments on a range of facts or situations needing analysis or comparison of options.	27
Planning and organizational skills	2	Plans straightforward tasks or activities, some ongoing.	15
Physical skills	3	Developed skills needing speed or accuracy, such as advanced keyboard use.	27
Responsibility for patient and client care	1	Helps patients, clients, or relatives during incidental contact.	4
Responsibility for policy and service development	2	Implements policies for own area and proposes changes to its practices.	12
Responsibility for financial and physical resources	1	Takes personal care of equipment and resources used in own work.	5
Responsibility for people	1	Shows own work routines to new or less experienced colleagues.	5
Responsibility for information resources	4	Adapts or designs information systems to others' specifications, or runs information systems for a department as the main duty.	24
Responsibility for research and development	2	Regularly does research, development, trials, or equipment and system testing as part of the job.	12
Freedom to act	3	Follows defined policies and procedures; work is managed rather than supervised.	21
Physical effort	2	Frequent sitting or standing in a restricted position, or occasional light to moderate effort.	7
Mental effort	3	Frequent concentration on unpredictable work, or occasional prolonged concentration.	12
Emotional effort	1	Rare exposure, or occasional indirect exposure, to distressing circumstances.	5
Working conditions	2	Occasional unpleasant conditions, frequent travel or outdoor work, or near-continuous screen use on most days.	7
Total (Band 5: 326 to 395)			335