Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Service Desk Technician

The closing date is 14 April 2026

Job summary

Are you interested in working in the digital space? Passionate about improving health and care through providing digital support services and helping to future proof our NHS through digital transform? If the answer is yes, then we want to talk to you! We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to join our Team.

As a dedicated Service Desk Technician, you will be the first point of contact for all IT related incidents and service requests, responsible for performing remote troubleshooting and determining appropriate solutions based on the information collected and provided by customers. Excellent customer service is required and accompanied by good IT technical skills. The need to accurately capture and handle all calls with the goal of resolving as many as possible at the first point of contact (first time fix) and ensuring service levels and targets are met as well as meeting customer satisfaction and continuous service delivery demands is essential.

The successful candidate will be expected to work a regular shift pattern as well as out of hours support (via an on-call rota) to ensure support is available to NHIS supported organisations 24/7 (including bank holidays).

Main duties of the job

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

About us

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:

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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.

Details

Date posted

31 March 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£27,485 to £30,162 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

214-NHIS-7795207

Job locations

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton-In-Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Job description

Job responsibilities

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

Job description

Job responsibilities

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

Person Specification

Further Training

Essential

  • Microsoft Office Applications

Desirable

  • Network Topology
  • Microsoft NT Server Admin
  • Microsoft Exchange

Experience

Essential

  • Experience supporting a large user base
  • Excellent communication and time management skills

Desirable

  • Supervisory skills
  • Dealing with people in a customer service environment
  • Familiarity with an IT support environment
  • Knowledge of various database languages

Qualifications-Academic/ Craft/ Professional

Essential

  • A computer or business orientated qualification or equivalent experience

Desirable

  • ECDL or equivalent
  • ITIL Qualification

Knowledge Requirements

Essential

  • Significent service desk or application support experience
  • Basic understanding of the IT function
  • Understanding of data quality requirements
  • Excellent knowledge of Microsoft desktop packages
  • Good level of education and advanced keyboard skills

Desirable

  • Understanding of the business goals of the organisation
  • Extensive knowledge of NHS information flows and business requirements

Contractual Requirements

Essential

  • Participate in the on-call rota
Person Specification

Further Training

Essential

  • Microsoft Office Applications

Desirable

  • Network Topology
  • Microsoft NT Server Admin
  • Microsoft Exchange

Experience

Essential

  • Experience supporting a large user base
  • Excellent communication and time management skills

Desirable

  • Supervisory skills
  • Dealing with people in a customer service environment
  • Familiarity with an IT support environment
  • Knowledge of various database languages

Qualifications-Academic/ Craft/ Professional

Essential

  • A computer or business orientated qualification or equivalent experience

Desirable

  • ECDL or equivalent
  • ITIL Qualification

Knowledge Requirements

Essential

  • Significent service desk or application support experience
  • Basic understanding of the IT function
  • Understanding of data quality requirements
  • Excellent knowledge of Microsoft desktop packages
  • Good level of education and advanced keyboard skills

Desirable

  • Understanding of the business goals of the organisation
  • Extensive knowledge of NHS information flows and business requirements

Contractual Requirements

Essential

  • Participate in the on-call rota

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton-In-Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Employer's website

https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton-In-Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Employer's website

https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Service Desk Team Leader

Jacqui Hawkins

Jacqui.Hawkins@notts-his.nhs.uk

01623410310

Details

Date posted

31 March 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£27,485 to £30,162 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

214-NHIS-7795207

Job locations

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton-In-Ashfield

NG17 4JL


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