# Registration Authority Agent

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

## Canonical URLs

- **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/registration-authority-agent/e8f4f1e6-8e4d-4d15-87e9-a021d3509754
- **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/registration-authority-agent/e8f4f1e6-8e4d-4d15-87e9-a021d3509754.md

## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Trust Headquarters, King's Mill Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Agent
- **Grade:** Band 3
- **Salary:** £25,760 - £27,476 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-14T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-30T08:10:49.327Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Nottinghamshire/SuttonInAshfield/Sherwood_Forest_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/NHIS/NHIS-v8300242
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8300242?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

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.

We are looking for a highly motivated and driven individual with exceptional communication and organisational skills. As a Registration Authority Agent, you will help ensure the governance and security of information accessed via NHS applications using smartcards. You will be responsible for producing smartcards, confirming the identity of users, and ensuring staff have the correct level of access for their role, in line with local and national Registration Authority policies, thus maintaining the security and integrity of data held within NHS spine applications.

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 across any NHIS base as well as other customer/partner bases as and when required therefore a clean driving licence and access to a car is required.

### Main duties of the job

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

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

## Person Specification

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Knowledge of a range of operational procedures.
- Ability to collate and communicate information from a wide variety of sources.
- Good knowledge of Microsoft packages with advanced keyboard skills.

**Desirable**

- Knowledge of a range of Trust policies and procedures.
- Aware of current healthcare ICT issues.

### Experience

**Essential**

- 2 years IT experience.
- Experience of Microsoft desk top packages includes Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint.
- Good time management skills.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.

### Contractual

**Essential**

- Car driver with own car.

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- NVQ Level 3 or equivalent qualification.

## Documents

- [benefits leaflet (pdf, 834.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2702)
- [application guide (pdf, 584.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2448)
- [our staff networks (pdf, 810.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2938)
- [registration authority agent (pdf, 392.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10619478)

## Agent Notes

- This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page.
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- Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.