NHS Professionals Limited

IT Support Desk Handler

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Job summary

Job Title: IT Support Desk Handler

Location: Working on site at Charter House, Welwyn Garde City AL8 6JL and also home working

Trust Location: NHS Hertfordshire & West Essex ICB

Would you like to be a part of a team that works well together, always there to help each other? If you answered yes, NHS Hertfordshire & West Essex ICB is the place for you.

About the Trust

NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the local NHS organisation that plans and oversees how NHS money is spent and makes sure health services work well and are of high quality. The ICBs role is to join up health and care services, improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities.

Main duties of the job

Manage incidents/requests agreed SLA/OLA and maximum efficiency.

Accurately diagnose and resolve technical hardware and software issues.

Direct or escalate requests, incidents or problems as required, with accurate and triaged information.

Identify and escalate situations requiring urgent attention; informing management of recurring incidents using the incident escalation process.

Research questions as necessary using available information resources for inclusion into the knowledge base.

Communicate and advise users on appropriate steps to resolve issues.

About us

Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.

As a member of NHS Professionals, you have fantastic benefits:

Competitive pay rates- work this week, get paid next week

Essential support when you need it- 24/7 365 days- call us anytime

Multi locational- work across neighbouring Trusts

Manage your shifts and timesheets on the go- access your My Bank shift portal anywhere, anytime online or through your smartphone

Varied working options to suit your lifestyle- access to the Bank gives you options of ad hoc shifts or longer-term placements

Training and development opportunities- Keep up with the essentials and more

Stakeholder pension scheme available- a flexible future for you and yours

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Details

Date posted

15 August 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£16.45 an hour

Contract

Bank

Working pattern

Full-time, Home or remote working

Reference number

M0042-65193

Job locations

Charter House

Welwyn Garden City

AL8 6JL


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please find attached a copy of the full job description under the supporting documents section for this job advert, this has been provided by the Hiring Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please find attached a copy of the full job description under the supporting documents section for this job advert, this has been provided by the Hiring Manager

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Excellent communication skills
  • Understanding of the importance of providing outstanding customer service with the ability to communicate effectively with a broad-spectrum customer base
  • High levels of concentration, often for long periods and work efficiently and professionally under pressure and unsupervised
  • Strong organisational skills with the ability to multi-task/ prioritise
  • Ability to work unsupervised and make decisions while balancing the pressures of incoming and on-going customer contacts
  • Understand, work and support hardware and software on various platforms/configurations together with providing solutions to enhance customer experience e.g., contributing to knowledge bases on various platforms and provide training and guidance to customers on the use of IT, Software, Hardware and IT/Information Governance Policies
Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Excellent communication skills
  • Understanding of the importance of providing outstanding customer service with the ability to communicate effectively with a broad-spectrum customer base
  • High levels of concentration, often for long periods and work efficiently and professionally under pressure and unsupervised
  • Strong organisational skills with the ability to multi-task/ prioritise
  • Ability to work unsupervised and make decisions while balancing the pressures of incoming and on-going customer contacts
  • Understand, work and support hardware and software on various platforms/configurations together with providing solutions to enhance customer experience e.g., contributing to knowledge bases on various platforms and provide training and guidance to customers on the use of IT, Software, Hardware and IT/Information Governance Policies

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

NHS Professionals Limited

Address

Charter House

Welwyn Garden City

AL8 6JL


Employer's website

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

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Professionals Limited

Address

Charter House

Welwyn Garden City

AL8 6JL


Employer's website

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

Employer contact details

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Details

Date posted

15 August 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£16.45 an hour

Contract

Bank

Working pattern

Full-time, Home or remote working

Reference number

M0042-65193

Job locations

Charter House

Welwyn Garden City

AL8 6JL


Supporting documents

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