Registration Authority Agent
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 25/08/2026
- Closes
- 08/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves acting as a Registration Authority Agent, responsible for carrying out identity checks for NHS Spine users and assigning appropriate access profiles. You will create users' digital identities, issue authentication devices, and manage access rights, ensuring adherence to national and local policies. The role also includes providing RA training to sponsors and managing daily requests for new user profiles.
Essential criteria
- Educated to NVQ Level 3 level equivalent level of qualification or significant equivalent previous proven experience.
- Experience of working with confidential information
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in a health care environment
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office including Word and Excel
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Access
- Understanding of GDPR legislation and information security
- Knowledge of security and confidentiality issues arising from the use of patient information
- Knowledge of RA policy and working practices
- Knowledge of NHS issues
- Awareness of a range of Health Services provisions
- Competencies
- Accurately record information and follow procedures
- Educated to NVQ Level 3 level equivalent level of qualification or significant equivalent previous proven experience.
- Experience of working with confidential information
- Experience of working in a health care environment
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office including Word and Excel
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Access
- Understanding of GDPR legislation and information security
- Knowledge of security and confidentiality issues arising from the use of patient information
- Knowledge of RA policy and working practices
- Knowledge of NHS issues
- Awareness of a range of Health Services provisions
- Competencies
- Accurately record information and follow procedures
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £25,760 – £27,476 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care
Registration Authority Agent
The closing date is 08 September 2026
Job summary
A Registration Authority is a function that carries out the identity checks of prospective users of NHS Spine enabled services and assigns an appropriate access profile to the health professional's role as approved by the employing organisation. An authentication device is required to access NHS Spine information systems and Registration Authorities roles and responsibilities are defined by NHS policy.
A Registration Authority Agent is a person who has responsibility for creating users' digital identities, issuing Authentication devices and tokens and assigning access profiles.
It is the Registration Authority Agents responsibility to check the identity of the user and that the National Registration processes are adhered to in full as identified in Registration Policy and Practices for Level 3 Authentications, grant users access assignment and to ensure leavers from an organisation have their access rights removed in a timely way. The Registration Authority Agent is responsible for checking that all RA requests are completed correctly.
Main duties of the job
A Registration Authority Agent must adhere to local processes that meet policy and guidance for the creation of digital identities, production of smartcards, issuance of Authentication dev
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