Tier 2 Team Lead

NHS; Manchester; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Manchester is looking for a Tier 2 Team Lead to oversee their Tech Bar team, ensuring exceptional IT support and service delivery. You will lead a team, monitor performance against SLAs, and contribute to the Trust's IT strategy. Ideal candidates will have strong leadership and IT support skills, along with a relevant post-graduate qualification. This is a full-time, permanent position with a salary range of £38,682 to £46,580 per annum.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership or supervisory experience.
• Strong technical background with experience in IT support.
• Ability to work independently and make informed decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Tier 2 Tech Bar team, ensuring excellent customer service.
• Oversee day-to-day operations and monitor performance against SLAs.
• Support the delivery of the Trust's IT strategy and operational goals.

Skills

Leadership

Customer service skills

Technical IT support

Communication

ITIL knowledge

Education

Post Graduate qualification or equivalent

Degree in an IT related subject (desirable)

ITIL Foundation Certificate (desirable)

Tools

Microsoft Office Packages

Microsoft SCCM

Office 365

Job description

Job Summary

Join our fast-paced and friendly Tech Bar team within The Christie’s Digital Services department. We handle around 4,500 service requests per month, providing exceptional IT support to staff across the Trust. As Tier 2 Team Lead, you will supervise the Tier 2 Tech Bar team, ensuring efficient, responsive, and customer-focused technical support in line with corporate Service Level Agreements. You'll work closely with the Tier 1 Team Lead, IT Service Delivery Manager and Digital Operations Lead to maintain high standards and support the Trust's IT strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Tier 2 Tech Bar team, ensuring excellent customer service.
• Oversee day-to-day operations and monitor performance against SLAs.
• Collaborate with Tier 1 Lead and IT Service Delivery Manager to maintain quality standards.
• Support the delivery of the Trust's IT strategy and operational goals.
• Act as an escalation point for complex technical issues.
• Foster a positive, structured, and high-performing team culture.

About You

• Proven leadership or supervisory experience.
• Excellent communication and customer service skills.
• Strong technical background with experience in IT support.
• Ability to work independently and make informed decisions.
• Business awareness and understanding of IT service delivery frameworks (ITIL desirable).

Main duties of the job

• Organising and the delivery of Tier 2 IT support consistent with the Digital Services Operational Strategy. Provide IT technical support co-ordination and escalation support across Tech Bar teams.
• Supervise a team of technical Tier 2 IT support technicians and ensuring that all logged calls are aimed to be responded to and resolved within agreed SLA's, ensuring that all support details are accurately recorded and logged using digital services ITSM tool.
• Ensure work allocation, workload, and tasks are appropriately and fairly distributed throughout the team, with emphasis on making sure that staff are adequately skilled to respond and to monitor progression.
• Ensuring effective Incident Management is in place by monitoring against quality standards and checks. Identifying, escalating, and communicating in a timely manner high priority incidents, service requests, trends, and service issues, notifying the IT Service Delivery Manager.
• Log incidents, problems, and service requests in line with digital services policies and procedures.
• Liaise with users, providing full information and advice and referring complaints in line with digital services complaints process.
• Contribute to the upkeep and maintenance of our ITSM tool.
• Monitor and provide detail reports on performance against key performance indicators, metrics, and targets to demonstrate service performance and delivery within the Tier 2 support team, highlighting areas at risk with corrective actions plans, areas requiring further development by creating and maintaining a skills matrix to assist in organisational learning.
• Responsible for communicating complicated, technical IT issues to non-technical staff or suppliers.
• Work on multi-functional projects implementing any changes as appropriate.

About Us

The Christie is one of Europe\'s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country. We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years. We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.

Details

• Date posted: 19 November 2025
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 6
• Salary: £38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum pro rata
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 413-98784-FB-SD-A
• Job locations: IT ICT - E00387, Manchester, M20 4BX

Job Description

• Duties and Responsibilities

• Organising and the delivery of Tier 2 IT support consistent with the Digital Services Operational Strategy. Provide IT technical support co-ordination and escalation support across Tech Bar teams.
• Supervise a team of technical Tier 2 IT support technicians and ensuring that all logged calls are aimed to be responded to and resolved within agreed SLAs, ensuring that all support details are accurately recorded and logged using digital services ITSM tool.
• Ensure work allocation, workload, and tasks are appropriately and fairly distributed throughout the team, with emphasis on making sure that staff are adequately skilled to respond and to monitor progression.
• Ensuring effective Incident Management is in place by monitoring against quality standards and checks. Identifying, escalating, and communicating in a timely manner high priority incidents, service requests, trends, and service issues, notifying the IT Service Delivery Manager.
• Log incidents, problems, and service requests in line with digital services policies and procedures.
• Liaise with users, providing full information and advice and referring complaints in line with digital services complaints process.
• Contribute to the upkeep and maintenance of our ITSM tool.
• Monitor and provide detail reports on performance against key performance indicators, metrics, and targets to demonstrate service performance and delivery within the Tier 2 support team, highlighting areas at risk with corrective actions plans, areas requiring further development by creating and maintaining a skills matrix to assist in organisational learning.
• Responsible for communicating complicated, technical IT issues to non-technical staff or suppliers.
• Maintain and communicate detailed policy procedural changes within the Tier 2 team.
• Work on multi-functional projects implementing any changes as appropriate.
• Provide a professional point of contact for all staff using the Tech Bar, providing guidance, resolution, or escalation for incidents or service requests.
• Manage user incidents and service requests to resolution, escalating to the IT Service Delivery Manager or Digital Operations Lead as appropriate.
• Assist Tier 2 support technicians when dealing with demanding situations, taking ownership if required.
• Observe and influence the development of customer care skills within the team, leading by example and training as required.
• Line management of the team including day to day performance, conduct, and absence.
• Maintain a good personal awareness of industry standards and future developments.
• Promote good and efficient working practices in the use of IT.
• Work collaboratively with the IT Service Delivery Manager and other colleagues to ensure that service delivery and improvement plans are developed, implemented, and reviewed.
• Function as a champion for the Tier 2 support team in troubleshooting technical issues, best practice, operational effectiveness, and quality.
• To participate in a staff rota covering core business support hours which are between 8am and 6pm Monday through to Friday (excluding bank holidays), subject to any Trust changes and service demands.
• Ability to participate in out- of-hours on-call Rota as required.

General Duties

• Human Resources: Plan and prioritise IT support activities, co-ordinate holidays, shift rota, training schedules and the delegation of ad hoc tasks as required to ensure achievement of team and personal objectives are met.
• Responsible for the day-to-day running of the Tier 2 team in line with appropriate policies, procedures, working practices and guidelines, ensuring all resources are deployed to maximise an efficient and effective delivery of support to Trust staff.
• Provide regular performance reports on progress, status, and achievements for own area to be used by management.

• Financial / Physical Resources: Ensure Trust procurement processes and procedures are followed in a timely and efficient manner and to participate in the procurement process where relevant aiding for the development of procurement documentation as required.
• Be responsible for supporting business appraisals and business case production when required in partnership with customers, undertaking solution searches and appraisals of supplier proposals.

• Policy / Service Development / Governance: Act as an ambassador for Tech Bar by developing and maintaining excellent working relationships with users across the Trust to deliver a high quality, performing service to achieve local requirements.
• Demonstrate a culture of service provision and continuous improvement for own area.
• Responsible for implementing policies within own team and for proposing changes to policies, in line with legislation, Trust and NHS policies and guidelines across the Trust, where appropriate.
• Pro-actively lead in ensuring that IT support delivered within the Trust reflects best practice with respect to organisational, NHS and legislative requirements and guidelines including ITIL, GDPR, Information Standards, Information Security, and compliance with NHS Information Governance.
• Ensure change management is applied within the Tier 2 team and follows implemented policies and procedures.
• Ensure all documentation relating to own area is complete and fit for purpose and all releases relating to hardware, software and documentation is controlled.
• Contribute to Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for allocated incidents and problems; instigating emergency action, when required, liaising with other Trust Managers, as appropriate. Lead proactive resolution to address common issues and trends.

General

• Undertake all aspects of Tech Bar Services, as part of a fall-back service when required, as appropriate.
• Comply with all legal, regulatory and Trust requirements including policies, standing financial instructions, standing orders and procedures.
• Perform duties at all locations where Trust staff are based, including locations not owned by the Trust and other locations determined by the duties of the post.
• Travel to off-site venues, as required to attend courses, conferences as designated.
• Undertake other duties as required as designated by the IT Service Delivery Manager, Digital Operations Lead, or other senior digital services managers.

Person Specification

Essential

• Post Graduate qualification or equivalent or relevant experience.

Desirable

• Degree or equivalent qualification in an IT related subject.
• ITIL Foundation Certificate.

Experience

• Extensive technical background in an IT support role
• Multi-tasking ability required to deal with multiple incidents awaiting resolution.
• Strong knowledge of IT hardware and software.
• Previous experience of hardware diagnostics.
• Asset management experience
• Good working knowledge of a wide range of IT Skills - Server and PC Environment, including Microsoft Office Packages, Microsoft SCCM and Office 365 products
• Experience in troubleshoot Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, and DHCP issues.
• Experience in supervising a team
• Working experience of Incident and Problem Management.
• Ability to prioritise own work and that of others.

Other

• Office based role with the need for travel to Christie managed sites as necessary.
• Ability to participate in out- of hours on-call Rota as required
• Ability to undertake shift working including out-of hours, weekend, and Public Holidays.
• Able to move computer equipment around the Trust.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship: Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.