1st Line IT Technician
Swavesey Village College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB24 4RS7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
4 October 2024 at 9am
Date listed
4 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- IT support
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £22,737.00 - £23,500.00 Annually (FTE)
1st Line IT Technician job summary
1ST LINE TECHNICIAN VACANCY AT SWAVESEY VILLAGE COLLEGE
Salary: Meridian Trust, Grade 4, Point 3 - Point 5 (£22,737 - £23,500)
Hours of work: 37 hours per week, 52 weeks per year
Based at Swavesey Village College
Please note, to be considered for this role you must have a drivers license.
We have an exciting opportunity to join our expanding team as a 1st Line IT Technician with Meridian Trust. This key role will provide high quality service in response to IT Tickets from employees and schools, and responsibility for the quality of first line support to IT problems and queries from staff.
The Opportunity
- Provide IT support to users and customers contacting our helpdesk. Ensure all jobs are logged within the Helpdesk and to provide remote support to telephone users.
- Ensure that the IT equipment is fully functioning and perform regular maintenance on ICT equipment.
- Set up new machines, swapping faulty devices, carry out fault-finding, repair equipment where possible and organise external repairs where necessary.
- Travel to our partner schools for IT patch visits and to assist our other Academy teams where required.
The ideal candidate
- Good educational background including GCSE or equivalent in English and Maths
- IT Qualifications or equivalent qualifications
- Good knowledge and experience of network fault finding.
- Working knowledge of a range of software packages including Microsoft Office Suite (including MS Windows)
- Good knowledge of PC hardware
- Professional conduct with colleagues and customers
Benefits of working for us:
As a multi-academy trust of 30 schools, Meridian Trust can provide a wide network of opportunities for collaboration and career development for both teaching and support staff. With an initial teaching training facility and a teaching hub network within our Trust, there are ample opportunities to both, get into teaching, and develop within the profession.
As well as the above we also offer:
- Unlimited access to CPD via Meridian Learning
- Free annual eye tests
- Access to a free Employee Assistance Programme, offering mental health and wellbeing support
- Unlimited value cycle to work scheme
To see the full range of benefits available, please visit Employee Benefits - Meridian Trust
For more information about the role please download the Applicant Information Pack below.
Meridian Trust is a successful multi-academy trust founded on its commitment to people and communities.
Our proven approach over more than a decade has elevated us to a respected and admired academy trust, a national leader in education and a source of great pride to the communities we serve. The Trust currently operates 30 schools across Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire and has forged strong links within all these communities. We are committed to high quality professional development and career opportunities for all staff. To find out more about the Trust, please visit: www.meridiantrust.co.uk
Closing date for applications is: Friday 4th October at 9.00am
Interviews to take place: Interviews will be arranged with suitable candidates on an individual basis.
Meridian Trust reserves the right to close applications before the advertised end date upon identification of a suitable candidate.
The Trust is committed to diversity and inclusion and equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to pre-employment checks, including an enhanced check with the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS), as well as social media checks.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Swavesey Village College
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1253 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Swavesey Village College website (opens in new tab)
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