Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Digital Nurse
Closing date: 30 July 2026

Job summary
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Digital Nurse to join our Clinical Digital Team and support the delivery of our ambitious Digital Strategy. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in the implementation of innovative digital solutions that improve patient care, enhance staff experience and support the delivery of high-quality healthcare services across the Trust. As a Digital Nurse, you will be a key member of the Clinical Digital Team, supporting the planning, development and delivery of high-quality training and education programmes for clinical users of digital healthcare systems and technologies. You will work closely with clinical teams, Digital Transformation colleagues, ICT services and system suppliers to ensure staff have the knowledge, skills and confidence to use digital systems effectively as part of their day-to-day practice. The role will involve delivering multidisciplinary training, providing learner support, facilitating system adoption and helping to embed new ways of working that support safer, more efficient patient care. Join us and help empower our workforce through digital excellence.

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: 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.

Date posted: 16 July 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 214-CEN-8022192
Job locations: King's Mill Hospital, Mansfield Road, Sutton in Ashfield, NG17 4JL, United Kingdom

Knowledge Requirements
Essential

• Ability to communicate both written and verbally at a level appropriate to the role
• Excellent administration skills
• Excellent time management skills
• Excellent team working skills
• Specialist knowledge of an clincial digital systems

Desirable

• Demonstrate effective resource management

Qualifications
Essential

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration
• Recognised training, coaching or mentoring qualification or equivalent experience
• Degree or equivalent experience

Desirable

• Continuing professional development/reflective profile
• Formal leadership and management training
• Research training/experience
• ECDL or equivalent

Further Training
Essential

• Evidence of attendance at relevant mandatory training and professional development, events and activities
• Completed IG training to the level appropriate to role

Experience
Essential

• Recent or current experience in clinical practice
• Evidence of ability to mentor
• Demonstrate leadership skills and ability to effectively lead a team
• Demonstrate an ability to prioritise own workload and respond appropriately to urgent situations
• Produce timely, accurate written/electronic records and documents utilising and interpreting complex information
• Ability to manage change efficiently and effectively
• Ability to convey sensitive information in an empathetic manner to patients, relative/carers and staff
• Evidence of delivering training and assessing either formally or informally
• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills
• Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication skills
• Highly motivated and enthusiastic

Desirable

• Audit or research within the clinical area
• Successful implementation and management of a change process
• Evidence of negotiation and influencing skills
• Experience of providing formal teaching sessions

Contractual Requirements
Essential

• Regular attendance, willing to work flexible hours when required

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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer name: Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address: King's Mill Hospital, Mansfield Road, Sutton in Ashfield, NG17 4JL, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/

For questions about the job, contact:
CNIO Claire Madon, claire.madon@nhs.net, 07850090933