IT Technician
Accrington St Christopher's Church of England High School, Accrington, Lancashire, BB5 4AY41 days remaining to apply
Job start date
4 January 2027
Closing date
12 October 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
1 September 2026
Job details
Job role
- IT support
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £25,185 - £28,142
Pay scale
- Grade 4-5 (depending on experience)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Training, qualifications and experience
- Good standard of basic education including English and mathematics
- Extended experience or the ability to demonstrate the competence to undertake the role
- Possession of a relevant ICT qualification, to meet the demands of the role, or the ability to demonstrate the capabilityto gain, relevant qualifications or equivalent where applicable
- Experience of working in a school or college
- Working knowledge of the practices, processes and procedures relevant to the role i.e. understanding and experience of:Windows Update Services, Windows and Printer Deployment, Group Policy Management, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP,Microsoft Hyper-V, Windows Server, Microsoft 365 management, wireless network implementation and management,Firewall management, Web filters and Infrastructure Management
- Knowledge and experience of maintaining and repairing pcs, laptops, printers and audio visual equipment
- Similar knowledge of printers, reprographics and managed print solution would be desirable
- Experience of implementing new systems, hardware and software (ie research, test and install new technologies)
- To be willing to undertake the PAT test training.
Professional knowledge and understanding
- Prior experience of managing users in a Microsoft 365 tenancy
- Knowledge and understanding of a Management Information System
- Able to troubleshoot and resolve problems including innovative approach
- Good planning and organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise, work efficiently and accurately, particularly underpressure, to deadlines and using own initiative
- Ability to maintain positive relationships with students, staff, parents and members of the community
- Developed skills appropriate to the job discipline
- Confidence and enthusiastic to work with staff and student and including those with limited ICT knowledge andunderstanding
- Ability to communicate technical fixes to end users in clear, non-technical language, enabling users to implementsolutions where appropriate
What the school offers its staff
Further information about the job
Key Responsibilities:
1. To assist in maintaining the school’s ICT network and systems
- Provide technical support to end users through a helpdesk system, ensuring all incidents and service requests are accuratelylogged, tracked, and escalated to internal teams or third-party support providers as required.
- Organise and resolve most issues/queries of a technical nature independently.
- Work alongside IT teams to deliver large-scale and complex installation projects within the school, ensuring effective planning,coordination, and minimal disruption to users and services.
- To provide hardware and software support for all IT equipment.
- Ensure that software, licenses, operating systems and anti-virus protection are regularly updated
- To maintain all peripherals within the school.
- To assist in the installation and maintenance of all new software and IT equiptment.
- To assist in producing and updating department documentation including the asset database.
- Deliver hardware and resources to work areas and classrooms as required.
- Oversight of ICT consumables and order spares when necessary
- Liaise with external suppliers to arrange repairs and installations.
- Deputising for the Network Manager, when and where applicable
- Carry out daily network health checks alongside the Network Manager, proactively identifying and resolving potential issues tominimise service disruption and prevent major incidents.
2.To provide technical support for all users, curriculum and administrative
- To provide support to users of the school’s Management Information System (SIMS) and other administrative software,escalating issues to support providers where required.
- To provide support to students and staff in accessing ICT.
- Perform the backup and restoration of systems, applications, and user data, including conducting regular test restores to verifybackup integrity and ensure successful recovery when required.
Commitment to safeguarding
St Christopher’s CE 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.
Applying for the job
This job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Accrington St Christopher's Church of England High School
- Organisation type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 1280 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- vacancies@st-christophers.org
- Phone number
- 01254232992
St Christopher’s is a highly successful and popular 11-18 co-educational Church of England single academy with 1,300 pupils and students on roll. We are situated in the Lancashire town of Accrington close to the Ribble Valley. Good motorway links mean that Preston, Burnley, Blackburn, Manchester, and North Yorkshire are all within a 30–40-minute car journey. The school is situated in a pleasant setting with views towards Pendle Hill.
Our pupils come from a wide catchment area. Pupils join us in Year 7 from over fifty primary schools, and the sixth form receives students from around thirty secondary schools. We enjoy an enviable reputation, built-up over many years, for providing high quality education for a comprehensive intake of pupils. Our reputation means that we are a popular school, and always over-subscribed. However, we do not allow ourselves to become complacent, always striving for higher standards in all areas. This year, for example, well over 800 applications were received for the 195 on offer. Ten per cent of our pupils are eligible for the Pupil Premium and 3% are from minority ethnic groups.
Our teaching comprises of 80 teachers and 12 teaching assistants. The core Senior Leadership Team is substantively the headmaster, one Deputy Headteacher, one Senior Assistant Headteachers, three Assistant Headteachers, and the school Business Manager.
The school’s commitment to learning extends to staff as well as pupils; there is a well-developed support structure for early career teachers and other new members of staff, and a strong culture of ongoing professional development among our teaching and support staff. We are continually looking to develop and further improve the quality of teaching and teachers are encouraged to think deeply about how pupils learn. Whilst we appreciate the contribution that technology can play in assisting learning, we remain committed to the idea that it is the teacher who makes the difference.
Arranging a visit to Accrington St Christopher's Church of England High School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email vacancies@st-christophers.org.
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