Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Service Desk Technician

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Job summary

Are you interested in working in the digital space? Passionate about improving health and care through providing digital support services and helping to future proof our NHS through digital transform? If the answer is yes, then we want to talk to you! We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to join our Team.

As a dedicated Service Desk Technician, you will be the first point of contact for all IT related incidents and service requests, responsible for performing remote troubleshooting and determining appropriate solutions based on the information collected and provided by customers. Excellent customer service is required and accompanied by good IT technical skills. The need to accurately capture and handle all calls with the goal of resolving as many as possible at the first point of contact (first time fix) and ensuring service levels and targets are met as well as meeting customer satisfaction and continuous service delivery demands is essential.

The successful candidate will be expected to work a regular shift pattern as well as out of hours support (via an on-call rota) to ensure support is available to NHIS supported organisations 24/7 (including bank holidays).

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job description and persons specification

About us

Thank you for your interest in this role.

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal's Trust of the Year in 2020.

The Care Quality Commission rated King's Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.

For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.

Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.

We would love you to join us.

Details

Date posted

21 March 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£25,147 to £27,596 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

214-NHIS-6161903

Job locations

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton-In-Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Job description

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job description and persons specification

Job description

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job description and persons specification

Person Specification

Further Training

Essential

  • Microsoft Office Applications

Desirable

  • Network Topology
  • Microsoft NT Server Admin
  • Microsoft Exchange

Experience

Essential

  • Experience supporting a large user base
  • Communication and time management skills

Desirable

  • Supervisory skills
  • Dealing with people in a customer service environment
  • Familiarity with an IT support environment
  • Knowledge of various database languages

Qualifications-Academic/ Craft/ Professional

Essential

  • A computer or business orientated qualification or equivalent experience

Desirable

  • ECDL
  • ITIL Qualification

Knowledge Requirements

Essential

  • Significent service desk or application support experience.
  • Good understanding of data quality requirements
  • Knowledge of Microsoft desktop packages.
  • Understanding of data quality requirements.
  • Good level of education and advanced keyboard skills.
  • Basic understanding of the IT function

Desirable

  • Understanding of the business goals of the organisation
  • Extensive knowledge of NHS information flows and business requirements

Contractual Requirements

Essential

  • Participate in the on-call rota
Person Specification

Further Training

Essential

  • Microsoft Office Applications

Desirable

  • Network Topology
  • Microsoft NT Server Admin
  • Microsoft Exchange

Experience

Essential

  • Experience supporting a large user base
  • Communication and time management skills

Desirable

  • Supervisory skills
  • Dealing with people in a customer service environment
  • Familiarity with an IT support environment
  • Knowledge of various database languages

Qualifications-Academic/ Craft/ Professional

Essential

  • A computer or business orientated qualification or equivalent experience

Desirable

  • ECDL
  • ITIL Qualification

Knowledge Requirements

Essential

  • Significent service desk or application support experience.
  • Good understanding of data quality requirements
  • Knowledge of Microsoft desktop packages.
  • Understanding of data quality requirements.
  • Good level of education and advanced keyboard skills.
  • Basic understanding of the IT function

Desirable

  • Understanding of the business goals of the organisation
  • Extensive knowledge of NHS information flows and business requirements

Contractual Requirements

Essential

  • Participate in the on-call rota

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

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton-In-Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Employer's website

https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton-In-Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Employer's website

https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Service Desk Team Leader

Jacqui Hawkins

Jacqui.Hawkins@notts-his.nhs.uk

01623410310

Details

Date posted

21 March 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£25,147 to £27,596 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

214-NHIS-6161903

Job locations

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton-In-Ashfield

NG17 4JL


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