IT Service Desk Analyst

Integrated Care System; London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

An Integrated Care System seeks an IT Service Desk Analyst in London. The successful candidate will provide first-line IT support and maintain communication with users to resolve technical issues efficiently. Responsibilities include troubleshooting incidents, managing service requests, and ensuring customer satisfaction in a busy environment. Applicants should have a relevant IT degree and prove their ability to deliver exceptional customer service. Knowledge of ITIL and practical experience with Active Directory and Service Now will be considered advantageous.

Qualifications

• Experience in a service management-focused environment maintaining service in line with Service Level Agreements.
• Practical knowledge of Active Directory management.
• Ability to support a large-scale, complex IT environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide first-line support and troubleshoot issues for users.
• Monitor incidents and ensure resolution within SLA.
• Maintain and uphold IT service standards.

Skills

Customer-facing skills

Problem-solving

Flexibility

Education

Degree in IT or equivalent technical experience

Customer Service Qualification

Tools

Service Now

Microsoft Office 365

Job description

Go back Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

IT Service Desk Analyst

The closing date is 25 July 2025

The IT Service Desk Analyst is responsible for maintaining the communication channels with the customer and the IT department. IT Service Desk provide the first point of contact for technical issues in the form of requests and incidents and provides first-line support, which includes troubleshooting and resolving issues within their remit.

The IT Service Desk Analyst t is responsible for responding to incidents and requests reported to the Service Desk from multiple channels (phone, email, self-service, TechZone) and the life cycle management of incidents, queries and problems, including directing requests to appropriate functions for resolution, monitoring progress and keeping users informed of progress, along with accurately documenting of user's details, problems and resolutions and other pertinent information in the log.

The Analyst will be expected to proactively manage targets, ensure effective and efficient responses in a high call volume environment, and contribute to increasing the delivery of first-line fixes. The staff member is also expected to be an excellent communicator who can support our users in a friendly and open manner. Most importantly, they will strive to offer outstanding customer service and provide a professional and efficient gateway into the IT department for Trust staff.

The Analyst is required to cover out-of-hours on-call support on a rotational basis.

Main duties of the job

• Responsible for upholding a professional relationship with internal and external clients.
• Responsible for call answering on the IT Service Desk, monitoring the IT Service Desk email inboxes, recording all Incidents and Requests with the appropriate information, prioritisation and classification, and updating incident data.
• Monitoring incidents and requests, item requests coming through the channel and ensuring stock levels are kept to the required allocation to meet customer demand.
• Responsible for first-line resolution of Incidents (current target is 75% first-time fix target, with the future aim to be 85% in line with ITIL best practice) which includes initial diagnosis of software or hardware issues, identifying the solution and if required performing minor system changes as required. This will regularly involve enticing and translating technical information from non-technical users.
• Allocate unresolved Incidents to other resolving groups to ensure timely management of an incident.
• Play an active role in ensuring clinical and non-clinical Priority 1 incidents are managed according to the agreed process.
• Responsible for the ownership, tracking, management and escalation of all Incidents within scope to ensure they are resolved within the appropriate SLA.
• Responsible for providing timely and accurate information to GSTT Users, obtaining closure sign-off of all Incidents through customer callbacks, and performing customer satisfaction surveys as required.

About us

The Directorate provides services and products that are used across the Trust. We work closely with the South East London Integrated Care System, and especially with our partners in Kings Health Partners (KHP), Kings College Hospital (KCH), King's College London (KCL) and the Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust (RBH). This will be formalised into a shared service operating model deployed across GSTT, KCH and RBH.

Job responsibilities

In addition to the above, please see the following:

• Responsible for keeping senior operations staff up to date on all systems issues, liaising with third-party providers as required, ensuring work meets GSTT standards, and warranty management within the Service Desk application.
• To maintain and uphold standards of the Trusts services and associated systems in line with NHS best practices.
• Responsible for ownership, management and adherence to ITIL best practice processes and GSTT IT Security policies
• To remain focused on providing a quality service with the team and IT, promoting the main objective of supporting the Trust in providing quality care to its patients.
• Provide training to end users regularly.
• Ensure that IT equipment is safely used by customers.
• Provide mentoring and coaching to Junior Service Desk Analysts.
• Responsible for updating and maintaining IT Knowledgebase.
• Responsible for updating and maintaining Service Desk processes

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of working in a service management-focused environment maintaining service in line with Service Level Agreements
• Experience in effectively supporting a large scale, complex IT&T environment.
• Experience in supporting hardware and software packages when appropriate
• Experience in remote fixes via Desktop support, RDP or other terminals
• Ability to use internal systems in relation to the role

Knowledge / Qualifications

• Degree in an IT specialism or equivalent relevant technical experience
• Practical knowledge of Active Directory management/administration
• Practical knowledge of Microsoft Office 365 applications
• Core understanding of Microsoft desktop operating systems and associated applications to deal with 1st line user queries/resolutions
• Knowledge of ITIL awareness and understanding, with the ability to follow processes and procedures
• Practical knowledge of VPN's and 2 - factor authentication configuration
• Practical knowledge of logging call
• Customer Service Qualification
• Practical knowledge of Bitlocker
• Practical knowledge of NHS.net
• Practical knowledge of Service Now

Skills

• In depth Knowledge of Windows Desktop Operating Systems
• First-class customer-facing soft skills delivered in a call centre environment & ability to maintain professional standards of quality of work
• The ability to work in a fully flexible working environment & able to work independently and on your own initiative
• A logical approach to problem solving & willingness to learn
• Flexibility is essential as taking part of on call out of hour's rota is necessary to support the needs of the business.
• Passion for new emerging Technologies

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.

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust