IT Network Manager
Fairfield High School, Bristol, BS7 9NL7 days remaining to apply
Job start date
7 April 2025
Closing date
9 February 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
24 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- IT support
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £41,511.00 - £44,711.00 Monthly
IT Network Manager job summary
Fairfield High School are seeking to appoint a skilled and highly motivated IT Network Manager to join our team. This is an exciting opportunity for a dedicated professional to apply their expertise and enthusiasm to have a meaningful impact on the lives of the young people in our school community. Working in close collaboration with the Excalibur IT Manager and Fairfield’s senior leadership team, you will play a key role in developing and implementing an IT strategy that supports the needs of our vibrant and diverse school environment.
This is a full-time position, 37 hours per week, working year-round (52 weeks). The salary ranges from £41,511 to £44,711 per year (NJC pay points 32–35) and includes 26 days of annual leave, plus statutory bank holidays.
This role encompasses the following responsibilities. Please refer to the attached job description for full details.
Collaborate with Fairfield’s senior leadership team and the Excalibur IT Manager to devise and implement an IT development strategy tailored to meet the needs of our dynamic and diverse school community.
Lead and manage Fairfield’s IT support team, ensuring they provide effective support to end users while serving as a point of escalation for ongoing or complex issues.
Oversee the management, maintenance, updates and security of the core onsite network and servers, as well as the off-site cloud services.
Act as the primary point of contact for all third-party companies who are contracted to support or make changes to the school’s IT infrastructure.
At Fairfield High School, we are committed to leveraging innovative and creative IT solutions to empower everyone in our community to achieve their full potential.
Fairfield High School is part of the Excalibur Academies Trust, founded in 2012, we are one of 21 schools. You will also work closely with May Park Primary School in Bristol giving them support, along with line managing two full time IT Technicians.
Fairfield is a school rated ‘Good’ – Ofsted.
Appointment to this post is dependent upon two satisfactory references, a satisfactory enhanced DBS check, and a clear pre-employment Health Assessment. Fairfield High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
In return we can offer:
Access to Local Government Pension Scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Employee Assistance Programme
Free parking
Clear on-boarding and professional development pathways, including coaching. There are opportunities to share good practice within the Trust
CV’s will not be accepted.
We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
Safeguarding Statement:
Excalibur Academies Trust is an equal opportunities employer. The Trust is proud to serve a diverse student and parent community. The aims of the Trust’s recruitment policy are to ensure that the best possible staff are recruited on the basis of their merits, abilities and suitability for the position; to ensure that all job applicants are considered equally and consistently; to ensure that no job applicant is treated unfairly on any grounds including race, colour, nationality, ethic or national origin, religion or religious belief, sex or sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, disability or age; and to ensure that the School meets its commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people by carrying out all necessary pre-employment 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 Fairfield High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1077 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Fairfield High School website (opens in new tab)
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