IT Service Desk Engineer | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Knowsley; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare technology organization in the United Kingdom is looking for an individual to provide 1st and 2nd line support as part of their Service Desk team. This role involves technical support, customer communication, and incident management. Ideal candidates will have a strong customer care background along with experience in handling technical incidents and supporting user satisfaction. The position may also involve working in a 24-hour Service Desk environment, providing various administrative duties including Active Directory management. Apply by 22 Dec 2025.

Qualifications

• Ability to provide 1st and 2nd line support.
• Experience in handling service desk operations.
• Proficient in Active Directory and email administration.

Responsibilities

• Handle service desk calls and record incidents.
• Monitor multiple communication routes for incidents.
• Provide resolution for incidents at first contact.
• Administer Active Directory and email functions.
• Conduct user satisfaction surveys.

Skills

Technical support

Customer care

Incident management

Active Directory administration

Communication skills

Tools

MS Exchange

Remote support tools

Service management software

Job description

To provide 1st / 2nd line support as part of the Service Desk function.

This role is highly visible, and requires a combination of technical skills, customer care, and business awareness - the Service desk being the single point of contact for all customer communications.

The post holder will be required to respond to service desk phone calls, monitor other routes to the service desk, record incidents following clearly defined procedures, and resolve the majority of incidents at first point of contact.

The role encompasses reactive and pro‑active elements of Incident management as defined in the IM Incident Management process.

Previous applicants need not apply.

Founded in October 2006, NHS Informatics Merseyside is an established NHS healthcare technology organisation based in Merseyside, North West England. Our role is to ensure technology and innovation is used effectively as an enabler to better health and care – helping to drive efficiency and support new models of care through improved and more collaborative ways of working. We are proud to be one of only two health care organisations globally to achieve 4 star certification from the Service Desk Institute (SDI). SDI’s Service Desk Certification programme is the only industry, standard‑based accreditation programme designed specifically to certify service desk quality.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Responsibilities

1. Handle Service Desk telephone calls, recording all new incidents using the minimum data set, and updating existing incident records with any new information received.
2. Monitor other communication routes to the Service Desk, e.g., mailbox, self‑service tool, ensuring new incidents are recorded, and customer queries are dealt with promptly.
3. Categorise and prioritise incidents and service requests according to guidelines detailed in the Incident management process.
4. Provide 1st line support, resolving the majority of incidents at first point of contact, using remote support tools where applicable to achieve this.
5. Resolve incidents not resolved at first point of contact due to the lengthy nature of the fix and, where requested, assist with the 2nd‑line support queue.
6. Assign unresolved incidents to the appropriate specialist resolver group.
7. Log incidents with third‑party vendors, and take ownership of third‑party incidents until resolution.
8. Liaise with the Connecting for Health Service Desk (or LSP) to raise incidents relating to National Applications: completion of triage forms; monitoring and tracking of all incidents raised with the CfH Service Desk until resolved.
9. Responsible for monitoring and tracking all incidents and service requests ensuring incidents are resolved within service‑level targets.
10. Communicate updates and service disruptions to users, selecting the most appropriate communication tool, e.g., email, intranet, and providing an estimated resolution time if possible.
11. Escalate major incidents to the appropriate team, and contribute to major incident reviews, where appropriate.
12. Identify multiple instances of incidents of a similar nature, and escalates them to the appropriate team.
13. Record appropriate resolution details in the service‑management software, selecting the relevant resolution categories – contributing to the IM knowledge base.
14. Resolve incidents, where possible, ensuring the customer is satisfied beforehand.
15. Conduct user satisfaction surveys under the instruction of the Service Desk Manager.
16. The post holder will be required to perform Active Directory administration duties, including password resets & account administration. This may include adding and administering permissions and security groups.
17. The post holder will be required to perform email (inc. MS Exchange, NHS Mail) administration duties, including, but not limited to, mailbox creation, updating email distribution groups and adding and administering public folders & calendars.
18. The post holder may be required to provide training to new starters or less experienced Service Desk staff.
19. The post holder may be given the opportunity to work as part of a 24‑hour Service Desk which would involve evening and night work.

This advert closes on Monday 22 Dec 2025.