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IT Technical Engineer Job Summary

As an IT Technical Engineer in the IT Department, the department is responsible for delivering Information Technology to the Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust. In addition, TeraFirma IT is responsible for delivering revenue generating IT services to other NHS organisations and private enterprises involved in the delivery of Healthcare. IT supports approximately 10,000 users and services are delivered from two datacentres.

Our customers rely on the availability and quick resolution of systems to perform their duties. It is the post holder’s responsibility to ensure that the desktop environment is stable at all times. The post holder will have the skills and experience to resolve, rebuild and manage IT services and maintain the user access to critical Health IT Systems. As a technical engineer you may be required to work either on-site providing desk side support or remote support.

As part of the team you are required to demonstrate continuously high standards of customer care as well as the ability to respond efficiently and effectively to rapidly changing technical developments and ever-expanding user expectations.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic IT technical support engineer who is passionate about customer care. As a technical engineer you will work either as a remote or desk side support engineer receiving incidents that are transferred via the IT service desk or operational escalations.

You will provide the day-to-day second line IT support and software deployment tasks which may be carried out either remotely or at the desk side. This is an essential role in ensuring that incidents are resolved in a timely manner, minimizing disruption to our service users.

This role will also cover advice and resolution training to the Service Desk team for the entire user-base and will be expected to have an excellent knowledge of workplace technologies within the NHS.

About us

At the Dudley Group our patients and staff are at the heart of all that we do and that is to provide a world class service that aligns with our vision of “excellent health care, improved health for all”. We are seeking to recruit staff who share our vision and values of making Dudley Group an incredible workplace.

We are committed to becoming a diverse and an inclusive employer and where people feel sense of belonging. Seeking to expand diversity within our teams, we positively encourage applications from under-represented groups such as ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQ+ groups. We are also under-represented in-terms of gender within nursing roles and we would welcome applications from people from male and non-binary backgrounds.

The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust recognises the values and transferable skills that the Armed Forces community bring and recognise their compatibility with NHS roles.

We are committed to home life balance through flexible working and making reasonable adjustments where possible.

Person Specification

Education and qualifications

Essential

  • ITIL v3 Foundation or equivalent experience

Desirable

  • Bachelors degree in an IT related subject or equivalent experience

Skills & Experience

Essential

  • Substantial experience resolving technical support calls, incidents & problems
  • Competent in administration of Active Directory Users and Computers and NTFS access groups and permissions
  • Ability to objectively evaluate alternative solutions to problems

Desirable

  • Show experience of the administration of cross platform mobile device management solutions

Communication & Teamwork

Essential

  • Experience of working in a technical support team to meet customer support service level agreements

Physical Skills

Essential

  • Able to demonstrate a professional and credible image within IT and to the Business and customers

Desirable

  • Evidence of reflection and evaluation of knowledge and skill gaps
  • Identifies own development needs and sets own personal development objectives

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 25 September 2024

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