- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1348 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Babington Academy website
IT Technician
More than one location, Learning Without Limits Academy Trust11 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
30 April 2025 at 3pm
Date listed
17 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- IT support
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time (Can be done as a job share): 37 hours per week Monday to Friday, 52 weeks per year
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £25,584 - £27,269.
Pay scale
- Grade 4 points 7-10
What skills and experience we're looking for
Learning without Limits Academy Trust has an exciting opportunity to join our fast-paced, customer focussed centralised IT team.
This is a Trust wide role as part of the IT support team providing outstanding customer focussed IT support to academies within the Trust, covering all aspects of IT support from end user to equipment and services. This role will require regular travel between academies and the Trust Offices, included supported schools in Coventry.
We offer a competitive starting salary with generous holiday entitlement of 26-31 days per annum, plus bank holidays. This permanent role is full time and for 37 hours per week, with some flexibility on your start and finish times.
LwLAT is a small multi-academy trust based in the heart of Leicester City, serving diverse and vibrant communities. We are at an incredibly exciting phase of our development as we look to appoint additional support to our central team.
The successful candidate will be an integral part of the Trust’s central IT Team who demonstrate outstanding customer service, practise and compliance in all they do. The successful candidate will have the technical expertise to provide the right level of support to the team, along with the personal skills to deliver our service to the high levels we expect from all our staff.
Responsibilities will include:
- Manage own workload through the allocation of calls via the helpdesk.
- Providing outstanding, customer focussed first and second line ICT support to staff and students.
- Maintenance of all ICT rooms and equipment
- Evaluate new and existing software.
- Attend and contribute to ICT related meetings.
Closing date: Wednesday 30th April 2025, 5pm.
This post is subject to a successful Disclosure and Barring (DBS) check and satisfactory references.
Salary: Grade 4 points 7 - 10, £25,584 - £27,269.
Why work for us?
Our strength comes from collaboration, with an emphasis on winning hearts and inspiring minds. We know that by positively celebrating and sharing the great work we are doing, through our vision and values, there are no limits to how high we can aim, and to what our students, staff and communities can achieve.
You will be given the opportunity to grow professionally and personally in this role and you will have access to meaningful professional development.
As a Trust we value inclusive working practices and diverse teams. If you’d prefer to work part-time or as a job-share, please let us know on your application and we’ll facilitate this wherever we can. We’re keen to ensure our Trust works for everyone, so we particularly encourage applications from different under-represented demographics.
How to Apply:
For safer recruitment purposes we will only accept fully completed LwLAT application forms. CVs and resumes will not be considered. Strong applicants may be invited to interview sooner.
Interviews: To be held at the Trust Offices c/o Lancaster Academy, Knighton Road East, Leicester LE2 6FU, week commencing 5th May 2025.
Social Media Checks
As part of the shortlisting process, in line with measures identified in statutory guidance relating to safeguarding practice, the Trust will conduct searches on candidates selected for interview, through a third party, on social media in order to identify anything that could give rise to a safeguarding concern in what has been said or done online. Only information relevant to safeguarding concerns obtained from the search will be passed over for consideration during the recruitment process.
Diversity Statement
As an equal opportunities employer, the Learning without Limits Academy Trust is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer:
- Access to the highly competitive Local Government Pension Scheme
- Favourable annual leave entitlement, above the statutory minimum, plus bank holidays.
- Access to extensive, free and confidential wellbeing services, including counselling sessions, physiotherapy, GP phone and video consultations, menopause support, manspace and mindfulness programmes.
- Staff Benefits Package - Access to a huge range of savings from retailers such as Currys, Halfords, Wilko, Asda, Tesco, M&S, Morrisons and many more!
- Cycle to Work – In partnership with Pluxee, this initiative allows you to make Tax and National Insurance savings on the cost of a new bike and safety accessories. Savings are achieved via salary sacrifice which is managed by the Trust and lets you spread the cost to make payments more convenient.
- Free Financial Support Service from Barclays - support with all aspects of your financial health and wellbeing, and you don't need to be a Barclays customer to use the service.
- Eye Test Vouchers – Free SpecSavers voucher for eligible staff
- Annual Flu Vaccine – Free flu vaccine voucher for eligible staff
- Free onsite parking
- Free tea and coffee
Commitment to safeguarding
LwLAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All employment offers are subject to an Enhanced DBS with barred list check, and a prohibition from teaching check.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013, 2020 and 2023). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance is available on the Ministry of Justice website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Visas cannot be sponsored.
How to applyIf you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.
Additional documents
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About Learning Without Limits Academy Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- kwilford@lwlat.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01162746330
Established in 2016, our Trust operates schools across Leicester and Leicestershire, working with children between the ages of 2 and 16. We are a Trust that prides itself in working within deprived and challenging areas, determined to improve the life chances of all of the children we work with.
Collaboration is at the heart of all of our activity, and whilst all of our schools work in diverse and often challenging contexts, our school communities pull together to support each other overcome the challenges they face.
We value our students, families and staff. We invest in our stakeholders and work with them to be the very best they can be. We listen to their views and respond to ensure that we continue our quest for constant improvement.
We invest in our staff. Our Continuous Professional Development programme draws on the very best we have to offer within our Trust whilst engaging with local partners in order to ensure our staff are highly trained and highly competent as a result. This investment ensures that we are at the cutting edge of current educational practice and at the forefront of innovation.
We challenge existing practice and constantly search for new ideas and solutions. We are on a constant search for improvement and we walk towards new challenges and ways doing things. We have a culture of innovation that supports the implementation of new ideas and staff get exited about stepping in to the unknown and trying things out for the first time.
We care deeply about making a difference and make every effort to remove barriers that get in the way of us supporting everyone we work with. We celebrate the successes and support each other through the challenges, working together as one family of schools for the benefit of the communities we serve.
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