Central Support Officer | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 27 February 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £27,485 - £30,162 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 29 March 2026 |
| Location: | Sutton in Ashfield, NG17 4JL |
| Company: | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7634412/214-CSTO-7634412 |
Summary
Join our team as a Central Support Officer at King's Mill Hospital!
Are you a motivated and detail-oriented individual who thrives on delivering top-notch patient and customer care? If so, we have the perfect role for you!
Key Responsibilities:
• Serve as the primary contact for GP practices regarding patient referrals.
• Efficiently book referrals through the E-referrals system in chronological order.
• Collaborate in building and updating the Directory of services within ERS.
• Work closely with Business Support Managers to identify additional outpatient capacity.
• Create and modify patient communication letters in Careflow.
• Coordinate the receipt of two-week wait referrals from GP practices
• Maintain permanent clinic changes on Careflow to match consultant job plans
• Stay informed about local and national initiatives affecting outpatient bookings.
• Continuously review and enhance existing working methods.
• Pilot and implement new procedures and systems.
• Keep up-to-date with mandatory training.
• Offer support to the team as needed.
If you're ready to embark on an exciting journey, apply today to become our Central Support Officer! Your attention to detail and commitment to patient care will play a vital role in our mission to provide outstanding healthcare services.
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 ‘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.
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
This advert closes on Sunday 15 Mar 2026
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