IT Engineer inHessle inHessle PUBLISHED THU 12 DEC 2024

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our IT Operations team. As a highly experienced IT Engineer your experience of delivering a first class operational service will help N3i to transform health and care services in a complex and challenging environment.

With a comprehensive knowledge of IT End User support in an NHS environment you will ensure that desktop services are delivered to the published service levels and that they remain aligned to customer requirements. Your excellent communication and interpersonal skills will also be essential within this role; as will your exceptional organisational skills, your ability to successfully prioritise and manage a busy workload.

You will be part of a team assisting in the provision, maintenance and development of a comprehensive IT service to support our customers objectives.

The post holder will be responsible for delivering IT support services, across the health and care sector, mainly within Primary Care.

Troubleshoot and resolve desktop based hardware, application and peripherals such as printer related issues, quickly in order to provide efficient and effective user support.

Ability to work on on your own initiative as well as part of a team.

The successful applicant will be expected to join the existing On-call rota for the out-of-hours support of critical IT Services.

Driving licence and access to own transport will be required for this role.

About us

The IT Engineer will be an integral part of N3i providing IT support to the customers across Primary Care (GP Practices) within the North Yorkshire, York and Humber Regions.

The post holder will provide IT technical support to ITIL/accredited standards, ensuring efficient and high-quality service delivery across the N3i supported customer base. The post holder will be a team player and support the wider teams in the support and maintenance of the IT infrastructure and the associated servers and services. The engineer will act as first point of escalation for IT incidents and issues and will work with other IT services as necessary to resolve.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Core Functions

• To be responsible for delivery of a consistently high standard of services to all supported organisations
• To understand and make all reasonable efforts to deliver a service within the quality and performance levels agreed with each supported organisation
• To participate in out of hours on call services in accordance with agreed SLAs
• Implementing a consistent IT service in line with a standard set of tools
• To respond and resolve assigned service desk calls to meet agreed service levels ensuring that all SLA and KPIs are consistently and reliably met
• To work closely with other teams within N3i, to ensure customer satisfaction through the end-to-end ownership of incidents and problems
• - Be the first point of escalation for incidents and problems relating to the locality covered
• - To ensure all IT equipment is logged and tracked and is accurately recorded by the team, within the Configuration Management Database.
• - Be responsible for the installation, repair and maintenance of IT equipment and software
• - Ensuring that all necessary governance functions and processes are adhered to and that these functions and processes fit in.
• - Additional duties as required to meet service needs.

Management and Leadership Responsibilities

• Work closely with other teams within IT service to ensure customer satisfaction through end-to-end ownership of incidents and problems
• To communicate using persuasive and negotiating skills where agreement or co-operation is required
• To actively support and contribute to the delivery of key performance indicators for the successful assessment of performance
• To provide project teams and operational teams with advice and guidance on the specialist service area

Analytical Tasks

• Analyse systems and information to identify and resolve a wide range of problems in relation to hardware and software errors.
• Ensure related hardware and software faults that have been logged with the IT Service Desk are responded to in the agreed timescales.
• Proactively monitor, assess, and prioritise live incidents using our systems, ensuring resolution within agreed service level agreements.

• Support the Team Leader in identification of common problems as part of problem management agenda.
• To be aware of current Disaster Recovery Plans and escalation points in relation to these.
• To exercise particular care over any enhanced level of security access levels that the post holder may have to IT infrastructure or systems, not disclosing the authentication & security information to any other party (internal or external).
• - Be familiar with the organisations Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and personal responsibilities within where applicable.

Planning and Organisational Skills

• Requirement to use a variety of tools (screwdrivers, etc.) and software diagnostics when working on IT systems (e.g. Windows event viewer)
• Ensure all data recorded (electronic or manual) in the completion of your duties is accurate, complete and recorded in a timely manner to meet the requirements of the business
• To contribute to and support where required, activities needed for any external accreditation or authorisation requirements necessary to the sustainability of the business
• To exercise particular care over any enhanced level of security access levels available to the postholder to IT infrastructure or systems, not disclosing the authentication & security information to any other party (internal or external)
• To operate within agreed quality and service level standards for all supported organisations

Physical Skills

• The post requires developed physical skills to fulfil duties in a role where there is a specific requirement for speed and accuracy. The post holder will possess keyboard skills and manipulation critical data and information with narrow margins for error.

Policy and Service Development Implementation

• Actively work to ensure continual service improvement
• Identify any opportunities for improvement to the service and bring to line managers attention
• To ensure Standard Operating Procedures in place are complied with and the line manager is advised where there is evidence that these require review
• To ensure compliance with relevant legislation and other standards aimed at ensuring the confidentially, integrity and availability of information.
• To be aware of current Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery plan and procedures and to support their implementation when needed
• Develop standard operating procedures relating to the installation & support of existing IT & IT developments
• To report any identified risk or breach of IT security immediately

Responsibility for Financial/Physical Resources

• Be responsible for the safe use of IT hardware and software, including installation, repair and maintenance.
• Liaise with external agencies, suppliers and contractors for support purposes.
• Support the evaluation and procurement of suitable IT hardware and software.

Responsibility for Human Resources

• Assist in supervising and training of junior members of staff and apprentices as required.
• Deputise for the IT Services Team Leader when required to do so (annual leave/sickness absence cover)
• On occasion the post holder may be required to work unsociable hours to support and/or enable the delivery of key programmes or projects.

Responsibility for Information Resources

• Responsible for maintaining all electronic and manual filing systems ensuring ease of access for retrieval, filing of data, records and documents on a daily basis.
• Ensure that a high level of accuracy is maintained in all information systems held by the IT team, for example the Asset management system and documentation.

Responsibility for Research and Development

• Supports the testing and adaption of IT systems and applications to enable service delivery.
• Will required to work within standard operating procedures with a team leader available for reference.

Education and Training Responsibilities

• To be responsible for developing & maintaining information resources such as knowledge base
• Ensure mandatory training is up to date