Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Desktop Support Engineer

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Job summary

At Frimley NHS Foundation Trust, we have a fantastic opportunity available to join a critical role within our Digital Services Desktop Support team.

Working in the Desktop Support team you will provide a friendly and professional 2nd line technical support service to colleagues across the trust.

Site location - Frimley Park Hospital

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate's responsibilities will include:

  • Resolving technical faults for users allocated to the team by the IT Service Desk in an effective and timely manner
  • Delivering a high degree of customer service for all relevant support queries and developing excellent customer relationships ensuring ongoing communications with users during fault resolution.
  • Ensuring that all support calls and requests passed to the Team are dealt with appropriately and in accordance with defined policies and procedures, in accordance with service level agreements.
  • Part of on call team to provide IT support out of hours
  • Providing development service to install, setup and configure new IT equipment for users such as PC's, printers, tablets, laptops and scanners for staff across the Trust sites.
  • Developing and maintaining documentation of Digital Services service
  • Working to agreed standards and policies

About us

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our threecore values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical, and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.

Details

Date posted

31 October 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£29,828 to £36,311 a year Per annum incl HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

151-NH046

Job locations

Frimley Park Hospital

Portsmouth Road

Camberley

GU16 7UJ


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the Job Description and Person specification before apply for this post. Both document can be found at the bottom of this page.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the Job Description and Person specification before apply for this post. Both document can be found at the bottom of this page.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Degree level qualification or relevant experience
  • Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician
  • Relevant experience equivalent to desirable Microsoft qualifications

Desirable

  • Other Microsoft professional qualifications e.g. MCP, MCSE
  • Network + certification
  • TIL Foundation Exam

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in a IT/ user support environment
  • Significant experience of PC hardware, operating systems and applications software including configuration, delivery and installation of PCs, monitors, terminals, printers and peripherals
  • Good estimation skills in being able to assess time required to undertake technical tasks and form plans based on this information.

Desirable

  • Experience of working in NHS / Healthcare services

Knowledge

Essential

  • Detailed knowledge of Windows Desktop Operating Systems
  • Desktop Thin Client
  • MS Active Directory
  • Mobile Device management
  • Microsoft Office Suite
  • LAN/WAN technologies
  • Web based technologies
  • Working with a modern ITSM toolset
  • Understanding of the Data Protection Act and Caldicott requirements, and general awareness of Security and Confidentiality issues

Desirable

  • Experience supporting Epic clinical systems
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Degree level qualification or relevant experience
  • Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician
  • Relevant experience equivalent to desirable Microsoft qualifications

Desirable

  • Other Microsoft professional qualifications e.g. MCP, MCSE
  • Network + certification
  • TIL Foundation Exam

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in a IT/ user support environment
  • Significant experience of PC hardware, operating systems and applications software including configuration, delivery and installation of PCs, monitors, terminals, printers and peripherals
  • Good estimation skills in being able to assess time required to undertake technical tasks and form plans based on this information.

Desirable

  • Experience of working in NHS / Healthcare services

Knowledge

Essential

  • Detailed knowledge of Windows Desktop Operating Systems
  • Desktop Thin Client
  • MS Active Directory
  • Mobile Device management
  • Microsoft Office Suite
  • LAN/WAN technologies
  • Web based technologies
  • Working with a modern ITSM toolset
  • Understanding of the Data Protection Act and Caldicott requirements, and general awareness of Security and Confidentiality issues

Desirable

  • Experience supporting Epic clinical systems

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Frimley Park Hospital

Portsmouth Road

Camberley

GU16 7UJ


Employer's website

https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Frimley Park Hospital

Portsmouth Road

Camberley

GU16 7UJ


Employer's website

https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Desktop Support Manager

Jonathan Sanders

Jonathan.Sanders2@nhs.net

03006145000

Details

Date posted

31 October 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£29,828 to £36,311 a year Per annum incl HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

151-NH046

Job locations

Frimley Park Hospital

Portsmouth Road

Camberley

GU16 7UJ


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