Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Junior IT Systems Support Officer

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Job summary

You will be working within the Infrastructure Team directly involved in providing quality support and development of the Trust's IT infrastructure, with particular emphasis on virtualised and cloud environments, and so this is an exciting opportunity to gain broad experience across all IT infrastructure.

It is a varied role which will become pivotal in the support and maintenance of a secure environment from which excellent patient care is driven. You will be supported with expanding your knowledge and experience.

You will need to be able to communicate clearly and translate technical jargon into plain English for non technical users and colleagues to understand.

To fulfil this role you need to be able and willing to keep up to date with current technical understanding and developments. Follow best practise and understand the importance and impact of any changes you make.

Main duties of the job

To provide IT support and innovation to meet all immediate needs of LSCFT. Act as part of IT Services, resolving escalated incidents, across multiple platforms often interfacing directly with 3rd party vendors and key stakeholders to ensure the full operability of systems and services used by staff.

Configuration and maintenance of on-premise and hosted environments, plus network equipment and mobile devices.

Assist with the delivery of IT projects. Ensuring good governance and that ITIL based practices are adhered to throughout, ensuring documentation is produced to support the Trust's auditing and Information Governance compliance requirements.

Provide tactical solutions flexibly and cohesively adapting to the changing needs of the Trust providing innovative and dynamic solutions to meet emerging needs.

We are looking for someone who has previous ICT first and second-line support experience and can prioritise their own workload working in a high volume, pressurised environment

About us

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.

Details

Date posted

23 October 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£28,407 to £34,581 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

351-CS2465-MT

Job locations

Sceptre Point

Sceptre Way

Walton Summit

PR5 6AW


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the Job Description and Person Specification for more information about this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the Job Description and Person Specification for more information about this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Degree in relevant subject or equivalent knowledge and experience
  • Evidence of Personal Development

Knowledge

Essential

  • Proven knowledge and experience of leading a customer facing IT service delivery environment including delivering Service Level Agreements
  • Substantial knowledge and experience in the management and use of Industry standard service desk systems and call distribution systems

Experience

Essential

  • Extensive technical background in IT working in an Infrastructure support role
  • Significant experience in working in a large, complex, multi-site IT environment

Skills

Essential

  • Ability to communicate a range of IM&T issues which can be complex and multi-stranded
  • Ability to make judgements on multi-stranded or complex IM&T problems which may have no precedent or where there are conflicting opinions
  • Ability to plan and organise broad range of complex activities, formulate and adjust plans which impact beyond own area
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Degree in relevant subject or equivalent knowledge and experience
  • Evidence of Personal Development

Knowledge

Essential

  • Proven knowledge and experience of leading a customer facing IT service delivery environment including delivering Service Level Agreements
  • Substantial knowledge and experience in the management and use of Industry standard service desk systems and call distribution systems

Experience

Essential

  • Extensive technical background in IT working in an Infrastructure support role
  • Significant experience in working in a large, complex, multi-site IT environment

Skills

Essential

  • Ability to communicate a range of IM&T issues which can be complex and multi-stranded
  • Ability to make judgements on multi-stranded or complex IM&T problems which may have no precedent or where there are conflicting opinions
  • Ability to plan and organise broad range of complex activities, formulate and adjust plans which impact beyond own area

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

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Sceptre Point

Sceptre Way

Walton Summit

PR5 6AW


Employer's website

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


Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Sceptre Point

Sceptre Way

Walton Summit

PR5 6AW


Employer's website

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


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Technical Systems Manager

Joanne Crossley

jo.crossley@lscft.nhs.uk

Details

Date posted

23 October 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£28,407 to £34,581 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

351-CS2465-MT

Job locations

Sceptre Point

Sceptre Way

Walton Summit

PR5 6AW


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