Network and Telecommunications Support Engineer

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Ilkeston; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Network and Telecommunications Support Engineer to help deliver digital services and support NHS transformation. The role encompasses supporting network and telecoms infrastructure across Kings Mill Hospital, GP practices, and community health services in the region.

The successful candidate will work within the Technical Operations SBU, ensuring high-quality service, minimal disruption, and collaboration with partners and customers to

Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of Service Level Agreements and design and implement technical solutions.
• Maintain and enhance IT infrastructure, including upgrades and installations within datacentres.
• Provide essential technical support to users and collaborate with partners and customers to align with clinical and IT strategies.

Job description

Are you passionate about the digital space? Do you want to help transform health and care services through innovative digital support?

We are looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated individual to join our team as a Network and Telecommunications Support Engineer within the Technical Operations Strategic Business Unit (SBU) at NHIS. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a team that is working to future-proof the NHS by delivering vital digital services and supporting the transformation of healthcare through technology.

As part of the Technical SBU, your primary goal will be to support the delivery of Service Level Agreements, design and implement technical solutions, and work collaboratively with our Partners and Customers to align with clinical and IT strategies. You will play a key role in maintaining and enhancing the IT infrastructure at all levels, from providing essential technical support to users, to managing upgrades and installations within our Datacentres.

You’ll be supporting the Network and Telecoms infrastructure across Kings Mill Hospital, GP practices, and Community Health services around Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. We are committed to ensuring that our customers experience minimal disruption and receive high-quality service that ensures the smooth continuation of care.

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Role

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Chris Smeeton Job title: Network and Telecommunications Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07595 091162