it technician Bury, North West England, England
Job description
We are currently seeking to appoint to the permanent post of Senior ICT Technician. Applications are invited from ICT technicians with experience to join our team. Under the guidance of the Senior Network Manager, you will provide excellent IT Support and customer service to our schools and Head Office staff. You will be based at Unsworth Academy and candidates must be able to travel across a cluster of schools as necessary.
The post holder will also support Trust wide IT projects including network migration projects for academies joining the Trust’s central infrastructure, the continued expansion of the Trust’s Office 365 platform, and other central systems.
Main responsibilities:
- Provide onsite support at schools when needed where additional capacity is needed such as supporting project work and to cover the absence of on-site staff.
- Effective use of the IT Helpdesk to assist end users, prioritise and manage workload, and record activity.
- Update documentation on existing systems or create new documentation as changes are made.
- Support with daily tasks such as checking security logs, reviewing emails held quarantine, checking backup logs and then taking action where required.
- To work with senior team members to support infrastructure elements such as physical & virtual servers and networking devices, thus ensuring the availability and security of the network, data and applications.
- Contribute to investigation, design, development and implementation of new IT systems under the direction of senior team members.
- To take an active role in the on-going development and support of the Trust's Office 365 tools such as SharePoint, OneDrive and Microsoft Teams for Education.
- Mentor and support other IT Technicians
Please see job description and person specification.
Salary: Grade 7 £25,878- £29,440 pay award pending
Location: Base - Unsworth Academy, Bury, BL9 8LP, with travel to a cluster of schools within the Trust
SHAW EDUCATION TRUST was established in 2014 and is sponsored by Shaw Trust and is a growing group of dynamically awesome academies providing education to children of all ages and abilities. Staff across our team of schools are dedicated to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to be successful, whatever their starting point in life. Unlike other MATs, we don’t enforce a curriculum for all our schools to follow. Instead, we support each individual school to offer a programme that enables our students to deepen their knowledge, develop their skills, sparks their imagination and fires their curiosity.
To achieve this, we pledge an unswerving commitment to improve, accelerate and enable ambitious life goals amongst all our students, and provide our schools with the support they need to deliver the highest possible quality of education. Every action we take as a Trust is guided by our core values, with the best interest of our students and staff members at the heart of everything we do.
The Shaw Education Trust offer the following benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:
- An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
- Support Staff only based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
- Access to health and wellbeing support via Occupational Health
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.
- Online IT training
To Apply, click – https://ce0524li.webitrent.com/ce0524li_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC179GF.open?WVID=17491515f0&VACANCY_ID=2135773cO3
Shaw Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment, click here to review Safeguarding and Pupil Protection Policy https://www.shaw-education.org.uk/our-trust/key-information
This position is subject to appropriate vetting procedures including a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions.
We are an Equal Opportunities employer and will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.
In accordance with our safer recruitment policy CV’s alone will not be accepted.
Application deadline: 31stJuly 2023
Interview date: TBC
We reserve the right to appoint before the closing date, therefore, we encourage early applications.
Successful candidates will be subject to a fully Enhanced DBS check along with other relevant employment checks.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Benefits:
- Company events
- Company pension
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Bury, BL9 8LP
Application deadline: 31/07/2023
