Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
- 46,148 – 52,809 £ / Year
Job Summary
The Digital Service’s IT Operation Teams leads on IT strategy, development, co-ordination, planning, project, and programme management for all Digital & supporting functions.
The primary focus of this role is to lead the Server team with providing a highly efficient and professional service in supporting and managing the GHC IT Server Estate. The post holder will manage the Server environments, have strong technical knowledge and experience of managing physical and virtual server infrastructure, including hardware,as well as management of Active Directory and associated services, O365 and cloud solutions such as Azure. Added to this, to ensure that the IT server environment is secure and meets the needs of the Trust and Governance requirements
This role is instrumental in ensuring continuity of service and availability of clinical and business administration systems within the Trust and local health communities. The post holder will be part of the core hub that manages real time communications with customers on the current status of IT and Clinical Systems and Operations, liaising directly with other services as required.
Main duties of the job
Working as part of a team the postholder will ensure that the IT Server Team operates smoothly to provide excellent IT and Infrastructure provision across the c5000 staff and across multiple sites
The IT Server Manager will provide specialist advice to the organisation and other stakeholders on IT matters in supporting Community Providers, identifying opportunities, new products and developments in information technology, formulating and agreeing proposals with stakeholders that will contribute or enable overall service improvement.
Reporting to the Head of IT Operations , the IT Server Manager will manage on the development, planning, testing and provision of current and new IT systems, services and equipment for both clinical and corporate staff for the trust. Thereby ensuring that Community & Corporate colleagues have the necessary tools to deliver and provide healthcare services across the county.
Extensive knowledge in Cyber Security and to lead on monitoring the latest cyber security threats ensuring appropriate measures are taken to secure the network and infrastructure.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience in IT Management
- Significant experience in IT Support
- Degree or equivalent
Desirable
- Experience in NHS organisation
Knowledge
Essential
- Technical Experience in Data Centre Technologies
- Understanding of Resiliency and Recovery
- Experience and Cyber threats and mitigations
Desirable
- Implementation of Data Centre Technologies
Management
Essential
- Line Management of a team
- Experience of implementing projects
- Project Management
- Budgetary Responsibility
Desirable
- Service desk and Customer Services management
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: 09 February 2025
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