# Senior Digital Business Partner

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

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Trust Headquarters, King's Mill Hospital
- **Workplace type:** hybrid
- **Profession:** Business partner
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, Home or remote working, 37.5 hours per week (Flexible hours, home/office hybrid working)
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-10T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-27T12:20:46.848Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Nottinghamshire/SuttoninAshfield/Sherwood_Forest_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Information_Technology/Information_Technology-v8205086
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8205086?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 Transformation? 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, someone who is eager to help our end users engage with NHIS to meet their business requirements. This role is all about running service reviews, managing business relations, providing IT solutions, getting out to meet service users, and creating strategy and direction for IT requirements. We are a collaborative team, working across different local organisations to achieve shared goals, ultimately to provide the highest level of patient care possible.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full-time basis supporting NHIS in the role of a Senior Digital Business Partner.

### 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

### Experience

**Essential**

- Experience of Staff Management
- Extensive ICT experience
- Experience of communicating and explaining ICT issues
- Experience of negotiating with suppliers
- Experience of purchasing
- Experience of managing projects
- Experience of inter-organisational working
- Organising and chairing meetings
- Effective written and oral communication skills

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Educated to degree level or equivalent qualification/experience
- Microsoft Office qualification e.g. ECDL advanced or MOS

### Knowledge Requirements

**Essential**

- Knowledge, training and experience in ICT
- Effective empathy and persuasive skills
- Ability to negotiate
- Ability to work with supplier contracts/costs
- Advanced keyboard skills
- Microsoft Office - advanced use
- Ability to act and work flexibly and on own initiative
- Ability to concentrate in stressful situations and when interrupted

**Desirable**

- Knowledge/appreciation of the ICT requirements of ICBs, GP IT and Acute Care
- Experience/knowledge of: PRINCE2/ITIL
- Data Protection Act
- Freedom of Information Act
- GMS and PMS Contract.
- GP IT Futures Framework

### Contractual Requirements

**Essential**

- Ability to work flexibly, outside normal office hours, in order to suit the needs of the users
- The ability to travel between NHIS sites

## 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)
- [nursing, midwifery & ahp strategy 25-28 (pdf, 2.6mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2492)
- [senior digital business partner vcp evaluation form (pdf, 224.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10511536)

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