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Job summary

Main area
ICT
Grade
NHS AfCl: Band 4
Contract
Fixed term: 8 months (Secondment also considered)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
214-NHIS-7368089
Employer
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
King's Mill Hospital
Town
Sutton-in-Ashfield
Salary
£27,485 - £30,162 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
14/09/2025 23:59

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Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Application Support Analyst

NHS AfCl: Band 4

Thank you for your interest in this role, we would be delighted to welcome you to Sherwood Forest Hospitals.

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and know that happy colleagues deliver better care.

Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.

We would love you to join us.

Job overview

Nottinghamshire Health Informatics Service (NHIS) provides Information, Communication and Technology Services (ICT) across the NHS and local health community. Providing expertise and capability, effectively delivering national and local ICT requirements and continually researching and innovating in an effort to provide technologies that enable our customers to do things better or do better things.

An opportunity has arisen to work within the Application Support Team within the Transformation Service Line.

We are seeking an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual who has significant experience working within a customer or patient focused environment to join our busy Application Support Team.

You will need excellent knowledge of Microsoft desktop packages and an understanding of a range of patient-based clinical systems would be desirable as well as knowledge of the Data Protection Act and issues around data confidentiality.

Due to the nature of the role it is essential that the post holder has excellent communication skills with the ability to remain calm under pressure as well as maintaining a professional manner at all times.

A significant part of the role will be focused around the answering of telephone calls from clinical staff and the use of our call logging system; therefore it is essential that the successful candidate has advanced telephony and keyboard skills and an appreciation of the importance of capturing and maintaining accurate and timely information.

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

 

Working for our organisation

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire. 

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation. 

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands. 

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK

Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person specification

Contractual Requirements

Essential criteria
  • Participate in the 24 hours on call rota
  • Ability to work flexibly, outside normal office hours, in order to suit the needs of the users

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Substantial experience of supporting a large user base
  • Excellent communication and time management skills
  • Proven ability to work to tight deadlines
  • Experience in working in a demanding environment

Qualifications-Academic/ Craft/ Professional/ Further training

Essential criteria
  • Educated to Diploma level or equivalent experience in a IT or business environment
  • Ongoing personal and professional development
Desirable criteria
  • ITIL Qualfication

Knowledge Requirements

Essential criteria
  • Extensive experience working in a application support or call centre environment
  • Expert knowledge of Microsoft desktop packages
  • Knowledge of the Data Protection Act and issues around data confidentiality
  • Awareness of NHS processes and business processes and dependencies
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of using clinical applications across the NHS
  • Good knowledge of working in the NHS

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Mrs Heather Marshall
Job title
Application Support Team Leader
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07972 931662
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