- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1346 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Babington Academy website
IT Technician - Maternity Cover
More than one location, Learning Without Limits Academy TrustThis job expired on 12 November 2021 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
12 November 2021 at 4:07pm
Date listed
20 October 2021
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: This is a full time position working 37 hours per week, 52 weeks per year
Contract type
- Fixed term - 7 months
Full-time equivalent salary
- £20,092 - £21,748
IT Technician - Maternity Cover job summary
This is a Trust wide role as part of the IT support team providing outstanding customer focused IT support to academies within the Trust covering all aspects of IT support from end user to equipment and services.
This role may require regular travel between academies and the Trust Offices.
Role and Responsibilities
These will include, as appropriate, those that reflect the Trust’s key value: “Winning Hearts, Inspiring Minds” through Collaboration, Inspiration, Diversity and Community.
IT Technician
1. Work independently and as part of a team to provide day-to-day ICT support across the Trust’s academies.
2. Administrate academy websites across the Trust where required
3. Manage own workload through the allocation of calls via the helpdesk.
4. Providing outstanding, customer focused first and second line ICT support to staff and students.
5. Maintenance of all ICT rooms and equipment.
6. Evaluate new and existing software.
7. Attend and contribute to ICT related meetings.
8. Assist in the development of recording systems for ICT usage.
9. Keeping the ICT software/hardware inventories up to date.
10. Providing technical support for staff presentations and events, and where required taking pictures or video recordings.
11. Support in the maintenance of Academy MIS systems including taking and uploading photographs of pupils in line with Trust policies.
12. Maintain CCTV systems, interrogating and reporting on incidents where requested to do so.
13. Be aware of and adhere to all relevant health and safety legislation associated with duties undertaken.
14. Commission, maintain, test and repair electronic/computer systems, associated
15. Ensuring peripherals and AV equipment complies with health & safety legislation.
16. Install and configure software.
17. To support staff CPD by developing comprehensive guides and delivering small group, or 1–1 sessions where training needs are identified.
Central Team
1. To provide IT support for the Executive and Central Team including liaising with various external partners where required.
2. To contribute to the effective working of the Central Team by participating in meetings and suggesting improved ways of working.
3. To assist with the joining/conversion process for new schools.
General
1. To achieve positive and effective lines of communication with all staff, parents/carers, community groups, local education authority, stakeholders, supplier groups and external agencies.
2. To promote the Trust and academies to, and raising the profile within, the local community.
3. To maintain competence in role by attending training as required.
4. To be prepared to work flexibly during busy periods.
5. To develop constructive relationships and communicate with other colleagues, agencies/professionals. Attend and participate in meetings, sharing experience and skills with others.
6. To perform other ad hoc duties and assignments that are commensurate with the post’s grade whenever reasonably instructed by the Director of IT & Communications or Technical Systems Manager.
7. To report all concerns to an appropriate person.
8. To comply with the Trust’s child safeguarding procedures, including regular liaison with the designated child safeguarding person over any safeguarding issues or concerns.
9. To comply with Trust policies and procedures at all times.
Safeguarding and Equality Statement
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Applicants will be required to undertake pre-employment checks, such as an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check. Applicants who will be undertaking early and/or later years childcare (or the management of such childcare) will be required to complete a declaration that neither they, nor anyone who lives in the same household, is a disqualified person under the Childcare (Disqualification) Regulations 2009.
We particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
Further information about the job
The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.
Visas cannot be sponsored.
If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.
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
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About the schools
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- info@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.
School Details
Babington Academy
Lancaster Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 962 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Lancaster Academy website
Heatherbrook Primary Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 162 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Heatherbrook Primary Academy website
Woodstock Primary Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 365 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Woodstock Primary Academy website
South Wigston High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 783 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- South Wigston High School website
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