System Administrator

Leeds Teaching Hospital Nhs Trust; Leeds; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

The Digital System Administrator role at NHS Jobs in Leeds offers the chance to directly impact patient care through innovative digital solutions. You will work with clinical and technical teams to support operational services, ensure system reliability, and contribute to healthcare transformation while aligning with LTHT values.

Users benefit from improved IT services as you develop documentation, train staff, and manage incidents.

Qualifications

• Proven experience administering IT/clinical systems and user management.
• Experience diagnosing incidents and data issues in complex environments.
• Experience with NHS clinical information systems and electronic patient records.

Skills

IT administration

Incident diagnosis

NHS information systems

Stakeholder collaboration

System testing

SOPs and documentation

Staff training

IT security & GDPR

ITIL awareness

Job description

System Administrator

CAPTION:

• Company: NHS Jobs
• Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year
• Hours: Full-time
• Location: Leeds, LS9 7TF
• Job type: Permanent
• Posting date: 2 Sept 2026
• Closing date: 16 Sept 2026

For questions about this job, contact:

• Name: Jason Clark
• Position: Digital Systems Operations Manager
• Email: [e-mail]
• Shortlisting Date: 11/09/2026
• Interview Date: 17/09/2026

Job Summary

The Digital System Administrator role offers an opportunity to make a direct impact on patient care through innovative digital solutions in one of the UK's largest NHS trusts. The role aligns with candidates who are passionate about technology, service improvement and collaboration, providing the chance to work with clinical and technical specialists while contributing to large-scale healthcare transformation.

The Trust's values of being patient-centred, collaborative, accountable, fair and empowered create an environment where skilled digital professionals can develop their expertise, influence positive change and support the delivery of high-quality healthcare services. In return, we can offer you a varied, interesting, and challenging role working as part of a fantastic team and offering all the support you need to learn at pace and achieve your career ambitions.

Why you should join our Team

DIT at LTTH is a highly motivated and inclusive place to work. We hold our Leeds Way Values in high esteem and respect all colleagues. Within the trust we are always looking to improve and give the best service possible, and we are looking for individuals with the same drive to join us.

DIT look after the Trust's information technology, responsible for delivering and embedding the latest digital innovations, finding the right hardware and software to meet business needs, turning information into insight and everything in between. It's an exciting time to join us, as we offer varied and rewarding opportunities.

We'd love to consider your application if you want to be a part of delivering operational services that allow patients to be treated effectively across Leeds. If you choose to use AI tools to complete your application, please take the time to edit and personalise your application and ensure that the language used reflects your behaviours, ideas and values. We want to understand what you can bring to LTHT and your reasons for applying, not a version of these created by AI. AI is a tool, it is not a replacement for your thoughts, experience and ideas.

What you will bring to the role

• Proven experience administering IT/clinical systems, including support, maintenance, troubleshooting and user management
• Experience investigating, diagnosing, and resolving complex incidents, faults, data issues and technical problems
• Experience working with NHS clinical information systems, patient-based systems and electronic patient records
• Ability to work effectively with suppliers, third parties, clinicians, managers, consultants and technical teams
• Experience developing test scripts, conducting system testing, supporting upgrades/releases and implementing new procedures
• Knowledge of security, role-based access controls, confidentiality, Data Protection requirements and NHS governance standards
• Experience producing and maintaining SOPs, system documentation, guidance, logs, change records and user procedures
• Ability to train staff, provide guidance to users, deliver system training and support adoption of digital systems
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain complex information to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Understanding of IT service management principles (ITIL), incident management, problem management, system resilience and service continuity

Our Trust values

The Leeds Way is working together to support each other and deliver the best possible care to patients. We are Responsible, Open and Honest, One Team, Kind

Our Trust priorities

• Our purpose: Excellent, safe and sustainable care for every patient every time
• Our priorities: People, Improvement and Innovation, Partnerships, Outcomes

Sponsorship Eligibility

To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application.

Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here. We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications.