Senior Network Engineer

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Knowsley; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Network Engineer to join NHS Informatics Merseyside. You will design, implement and support network solutions across on-site environments, including VoIP, wireless and SD-WAN, ensuring reliable and secure services for clinical operations.

Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will help maintain the network's integrity, deliver improvements, and support transition to modern infrastructure while adhering to NHS standards and

Responsibilities

• Design and implement network solutions including VoIP, wireless and SD-WAN.
• Provide technical support and troubleshooting as needed.
• Manage Mersey Care's complex network infrastructure to ensure reliability and security.
• Ensure network security and compliance with relevant NHS standards and policies.

Job description

Are you an experienced Network Engineer looking for an exciting opportunity to progress your career within the NHS? We have a fantastic opportunity for talented individuals to join our team as a Network Engineer.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies, including network automation, VoIP, wireless, and SD-WAN. You will be responsible for designing and implementing these solutions, as well as providing technical support and troubleshooting when necessary.

Interviews planned for week commencing 23 November 2026, As a Senior Network Engineer within NHS Informatics Merseyside, you will be responsible for managing our complex network infrastructure, ensuring the delivery of reliable and secure network services to support clinical operations and improve patient outcomes. You will also design and implement network solutions and ensure network security and compliance with relevant standards and policies.

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.