Main area IT Server Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (AD Hoc hours may be required) Job ref 327-25-088
Site Edward Jenner Court Town Brockworth Salary £46,148 - £52,809 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 09/02/2025 23:59
We love what we do and we think you will, too!
At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC), we provide joined-up mental health, physical health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Gloucestershire. We run community hospitals and provide care and support in people’s own homes and in a range of other locations across the county.
We are on a mission to enable people to live the best life they can and we have a vision to work together to provide outstanding care. We put people at the heart of our services, focusing on personalised care by asking ‘what matters to you’.
We’re passionate about making sure that everyone can contribute to achieving our mission and we are continually working to support healthy and happy high-quality teams in all areas of the Trust.
Job overview
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 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
* Experience in IT Management
* Significant experience in IT Support
* Degree or equivalent
* Experience in NHS organisation
Knowledge
* Technical Experience in Data Centre Technologies
* Understanding of Resiliency and Recovery
* Experience and Cyber threats and mitigations
* Implementation of Data Centre Technologies
Management
* Line Management of a team
* Experience of implementing projects
* Project Management
* Budgetary Responsibility
* Service desk and Customer Services management
When joining us, as well as becoming part of a team that makes a difference, we also offer:
* Free car parking at many of our sites
* 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
* A broad range of training and development opportunities, including apprenticeships up to Level 7 qualification.
* A multi-professional preceptorship programme for all Newly Qualified; Nurses, Nursing Associates, Internationally Educated Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals and Return to Practice Practitioners.
* Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when if you work unsocial hours
* Flexible, family friendly and agile working opportunities
* Recognition and long service awards
* Fast Track physiotherapy
* Access to discounts and salary sacrifice schemes; including Cycle to Work, Car scheme and discounts on travel, leisure and retailers.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date. Good luck with your application.
For more information please see the attached 'Additional Information for Applicants' document.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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