Application Support Analyst

Main area Digital and Data - IT Operations Grade NHS AfCl:
Band 4 Contract 16 months (Secondment or fixed term until 31/12/27) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job
-NHIS-8223969-A

Site King's Mill Hospital Town Sutton-in-Ashfield Salary £28,392 - £31,157 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 14/10/2026 23:59

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.

At Sherwood Forest Hospitals, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. As such, we particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, or Disabled. We believe that a diverse team better represents the communities we serve and brings a wealth of perspectives and experiences to our work.

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.

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

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…