Job summary
Guy's and ST Thomas NHS Trust Network and Security team have a great opportunity for the right candidates. Working in a highly motivated and dedicated team supporting one of the UK's largest NHS trusts across multiple sites. As a world leader in healthcare, IT has become a supporting pillar and the network and security is the foundation of the IT Services. Working on day to day challenging calls to multimillion pound projects to keep staff working and up to date and providing better patient care.
Main duties of the job
The N&S team support a highly complex operation and administration of multiple critical services. Including :
- LAN - supporting Access Layer
- Data Centre Connectivity
- WLAN - Large WLAN estate to support mobile users including Critical Clinical applications and Wireless VoIP
- WAN - Wide Area Network / External networks (connections to all existing and new satellite sites)
- Security systems - Firewalls, Mail Filtering, Web Filtering, RAS, S/FTP, Certificates
- KHP Interconnect - Kings Health Partnership
- Internet and HSCN (NHS Network connecting to all NHS Sites and Some suppliers)
- Protection of Patient Data from malicious attacks and Proactive management of security events
- Transportation and Support of the VoIP telephone system.
- Monitoring and Management Systems
- Security alerting systems
- Integral Transportation of other trust wide critical systems - Crash Call, Bleep, CCTV and Door Activation
- Guest Wi-Fi - for suppliers and Patients
This role will hold responsibility for managing and maintaining the network and security infrastructure services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year across the Trust sites plus our off site services. The position holder will be expected to keep calm under pressure, focused and deliver to a high standard. The post will cover installations of new equipment, capacity planning, documentation, monitoring, mentoring, highly complex troubleshooting and problem solving and supporting laymen to decide on best solutions for their problems.
About us
The Directorate provides services and products that are used across the Trust. We work closely with the South East London Integrated Care System, and especially with our partners in Kings Health Partners (KHP), Kings College Hospital (KCH), King's College London (KCL) and the Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust (RBH). This will be formalised into a shared service operating model that will be deployed across GSTT, KCH and RBH. Our operating model has been revised in 2020 to position the Directorate as a lean agile organisation which delivers the Trust's digital ambition. The key characteristics of this operating model are:
- A more forward-looking and strategic approach
- Significant investment in a new Electronic Health Record (EHR) which will catalyse a Trust-wide programme of work to transform the way technology and data is used across our services
- Improved working relationships with our customers by embedding some of our staff and carrying out some of our functions within our customers' teams where it makes sense to do so
- Consistent standards and approaches to programme delivery and technology adoption
- Changes in leadership roles, reinforced through clear objective setting, to support transformation, and to ensure consistent, fair and inclusive leadership and people management across the whole directorate and at every level.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further responsibilities include supporting the business to deliver all requests and projects, identify and resolve all issues whether they are raised by the business through service desk request or they have been identified by Network Management support tools or through analysis of trends.
- One of the key job responsibilities for the post holder is to be able to act on their own initiative and manage multiple work streams at once
- Working as part of an ON CALL team you will be expected to react to OOH (Out of Hours - 24*7*365/6) issues.
Successful applicants will have the relevant experience and qualifications for the role as out lined in the JDs but summarised below:
Role
Experience
Qualifications
JE0759 Network and Security Engineer- Band 6
Educated to degree level in an IT or computer related field or equivalent technical experience with relevant professional certifications
CCNA certification
All candidates will be expected to have:
- ITIL Foundation qualification
- Experience in effectively supporting a large scale, complex IT&T environment
- Proven experience of working within a 24*7 environment as part of an on call team
Applicants unable to demonstrate the above within their application will not be considered.
Preference will be given to candidates who have:
- Experience working with Cisco 6500, 3700, 3700 X and 3800 X, 9300 series switches and Cisco Routers 4000, 1000
- Experience working with Cisco SDA and SD WAN
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further responsibilities include supporting the business to deliver all requests and projects, identify and resolve all issues whether they are raised by the business through service desk request or they have been identified by Network Management support tools or through analysis of trends.
- One of the key job responsibilities for the post holder is to be able to act on their own initiative and manage multiple work streams at once
- Working as part of an ON CALL team you will be expected to react to OOH (Out of Hours - 24*7*365/6) issues.
Successful applicants will have the relevant experience and qualifications for the role as out lined in the JDs but summarised below:
Role
Experience
Qualifications
JE0759 Network and Security Engineer- Band 6
Educated to degree level in an IT or computer related field or equivalent technical experience with relevant professional certifications
CCNA certification
All candidates will be expected to have:
- ITIL Foundation qualification
- Experience in effectively supporting a large scale, complex IT&T environment
- Proven experience of working within a 24*7 environment as part of an on call team
Applicants unable to demonstrate the above within their application will not be considered.
Preference will be given to candidates who have:
- Experience working with Cisco 6500, 3700, 3700 X and 3800 X, 9300 series switches and Cisco Routers 4000, 1000
- Experience working with Cisco SDA and SD WAN
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
- other Security Qualifications
Experience
Essential
- oExtensive experience as a Network Engineer in a large organisation
- oProven understanding of the backbone infrastructure in the network and security arena
Desirable
- oThe broader IT world, servers, telephony, EUT, IT/NHS wide applications
Skills
Essential
- oAbility to manage multiple streams of work simultaneously
- oExcellent written and verbal communication skills - can explain complex requirements in a clear and concise manner
- oAble to prioritise workloads and resource them in response to changing demands and requirements
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
- other Security Qualifications
Experience
Essential
- oExtensive experience as a Network Engineer in a large organisation
- oProven understanding of the backbone infrastructure in the network and security arena
Desirable
- oThe broader IT world, servers, telephony, EUT, IT/NHS wide applications
Skills
Essential
- oAbility to manage multiple streams of work simultaneously
- oExcellent written and verbal communication skills - can explain complex requirements in a clear and concise manner
- oAble to prioritise workloads and resource them in response to changing demands and requirements
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
