At a Glance
- Tasks: Transform healthcare through innovative digital support and maintain IT infrastructure.
- Company: Join Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, a top-rated NHS employer.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible working hours, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Be part of a caring team dedicated to patient-first values.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on healthcare services while working with cutting-edge technology.
- Qualifications: 5+ years in IT, project management skills, and relevant technical certifications.
The predicted salary is between 49387 - 56515 £ per year.
Are you passionate about the digital space? Do you want to help transform health and care services through innovative digital support? If your answer is YES, then we want to talk to you! We are looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated individual to join our team as a Senior Network and Telecommunications Engineer within the Technical Operations Strategic Business Unit (SBU) at NHIS. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a team that is working to future-proof the NHS by delivering vital digital services and supporting the transformation of healthcare through technology.
As part of the Technical SBU, your primary goal will be to support the delivery of Service Level Agreements, design and implement technical solutions, and work collaboratively with our Partners and Customers to align with clinical and IT strategies. You will play a key role in maintaining and enhancing the IT infrastructure at all levels, from providing essential technical support to users, to managing upgrades and installations within our Datacentres.
You'll be supporting the Network and Telecoms infrastructure across Kings Mill Hospital, GP practices, and Community Health services around Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. We are committed to ensuring that our customers experience minimal disruption and receive high-quality service that ensures the smooth continuation of care.
If you are ready to bring your passion for digital transformation and healthcare to the next level, apply today to join our team.
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire. We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
- Knowledge Requirements
- Essential: The ability to work on own initiative, Project management skills, Substantial Experience solving issues at a senior level.
- Desirable: Ability to supervise staff.
- Qualifications
- Essential: Degree, or HNC/D, or BTEC or certification in relevant field, Microsoft Office Applications, Cisco switching & routing, Cisco Firewalls, Cisco enterprise wireless, IP subnetting and/or Mitel MCD/vMCD/MiVoice Business, SIP & call routing, High & Low Level design documentation, Nexus & Datacentre networking, Mitel Contact Centre Manager/MiContact Centre, Cloud Technologies.
- Desirable: Certification in relevant field (IE Cisco/Mitel), PRINCE 2 Foundation, Membership of a professional body, Call recording software.
- Experience
- Essential: At least 5 years previous technical experience within IT at a senior technical level, Have managed Staff, Experience of managing multiple project work streams and working as part of a multidisciplinary team, Previous experience of presenting written reports and communicating verbally to a wide ranging audience, Proven ability to work to tight deadlines and within a customer driven team.
- Contractual Requirements
- Essential: Ability to work flexibly, outside normal office hours, in order to suit the needs of the users. The post holder may be required to form part of the on-call rota. Ability to travel in order to deliver training at point of need. Clean driving licence and use of own car.
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.
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