Mobile IT Engineer
Piper Hill High School, Manchester, M23 2YSThis job expired on 5 May 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as all pre-employment checks are complete
Closing date
5 May 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
26 April 2024
Job details
Job role
- IT support
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: This is a permanent post, working 35 hours per week, all year round.
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- The starting salary for this post is Grade 5 is £26,873.
Pay scale
- Grade 5
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Prospere Learning Trust are looking to appoint a Mobile IT Engineer to provide specialist technical IT support across the schools in the Trust. Deployments may be for short or longer-term cover to meet the requirements of the Trust.
- Our schools are located across Manchester:
- Prospect House - Blackley
- Grange School and MEA Central - Gorton and Fallowfield
- MEA School and Piper Hill High School and Post 16, Central Services - Wythenshawe
- Chorlton High School and Chorlton South High School - Chorlton
- Pioneer House High School - Northern Moor
- New schools opening in Miles Platting and Cheadle Hulme.
The post holder must be in possession of a full driving licence, have access to their own transport and be able to commute between school sites for this role.
The role will include the development and maintenance of infrastructure/resources and to provide general support to staff and pupils. Under the direction of the Head of IT Services, you will also support the installation, maintenance, availability and security of the Trust-wide network, hardware, and software.
This is a permanent post, working 35 hours per week, all year round.
The post holder will play an integral role in the delivery of outstanding IT support to schools and will be required to work across several sites.
The starting salary for this post is Grade 5 is £26,873.
You will work under the direction of a Senior On-Site IT Engineer and the main contacts for this role are Head of IT Services, members of the IT Services Team, Headteachers, nominated IT lead in each school, SLT at each school, teaching staff, other support staff, students, and external technical support services.
Main responsibilities
- The Mobile IT Engineer works as part of the centralised IT Team, providing support and cover across the schools as deployed by the IT Service Manager. Deployments may be for short or longer-term cover to meet the requirements of the Trust.
- To provide specialist technical IT support across Trust Academies including the development and maintenance of infrastructure / resources and to provide general support to staff and pupils.
- To assist the Head of IT Services and the IT Services Team to provide high-level support to all sites across the Trust, delivering rapid response on-site first and second line support for high-impact and site-wide issues.
- To work collaboratively with all staff and parents/carers to support student well-being and promote the values of the Trust and each school.
- Under the direction of the Head of IT Services support the installation, maintenance, availability and security of the Trust-wide network, hardware, and software.
- To make a key contribution to the development of and support provided by the IT Services Team across all schools through the provision and delivery of a highly effective service.
Closing Date: Sunday 5th May 2024
Interviews held: Week Commencing Monday 13th May 2024
What the school offers its staff
Working for us
Great schools thrive because of the great people in them.
We pride ourselves in being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work life balance and to be recognised for the great work you do.
Prospere Learning Trust offers a variety of employee benefits, including;
- a commitment to continuous professional development for all colleagues
- membership of Bupa Level 1 Health Plan which allows employees to claim money back for a range of health expenses such as prescriptions and dental treatments
- access to counselling, financial, legal and personal advice provided through either our free Bupa or Health Assured Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) including confidential 24-hour support
- access to Cyclescheme
- Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) contributions and Teacher Pension Scheme (TPS) contributions
- We’rehappy to talk flexible workingwhere possible to help employees achieve a healthy work life balance.
Applying to work for us
Applications will only be accepted on the TES application form and references will be applied for at the shortlisting stage. Applications may not be considered if they are incomplete, you must provide information on all employment since leaving full time education and an explanation for any gaps. We cannot accept CV's.We encourage early applications and reserve the right to close this vacancy before the planned closing date.
Please note that guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education 2023 requires us to carry out an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates. This to enable us to identify any incidents or issues which have happened and are publicly available online which we might want to explore at interview. Once shortlisting has taken place, this search will be carried out for all candidates who will attend an interview.
All applicants must be permitted to work in the UK and hold a relevant work permit where necessary. This is not a role in which the Trust sponsors a visa application. If you have lived or worked outside of the UK in the last 5 years, the Trust will also require additional information in order to comply with safer recruitment requirements. Any job offer will be conditional on the satisfactory completion of the necessary pre-employment checks including receipt of satisfactory references. Whilst we offer flexibility where possible, we acknowledge that certain roles require a specific environment or on-site presence to meet operational requirements.
Safeguarding Children
All schools within the Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.
Equality Statement
At Prospere Learning Trust we are committed to creating a community of belonging. This means we continually celebrate the diverse communities within our schools and the communities we serve. As an equal opportunity anddisability confident employer, we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
If you would prefer to request an application pack by email or post, or should you require any additional support in completing your application, please feel free to contact us on 0161 527 7953 or via e-mail atjobs@prospere.org.uk
Commitment to safeguarding
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.
At Prospere Learning Trust we are committed to creating a community of belonging. This means we continually celebrate the diverse communities within our schools and the communities we serve. As an equal opportunity employer, we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
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About Piper Hill High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- School size
- 260 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- Email address
- Jobs@prospere.org.uk
Piper Hill School is an Outstanding school that is ambitious for every one of our learners. We are a larger than average size special school that caters for students aged 11 – 19 with significant learning difficulties. We aim to provide the very best education for our students and to ensure they have the very best outcomes and make the best rates of progress they possibly can.
Piper Hill high School has state of the art facilities that provide an environment suitable for the learning needs of both children and young adults, including a hydrotherapy pool, dance and drama studio, gym, and an interactive learning environment (ILE room). The school also has a variety of outside spaces, including a Forest School space with overnight camping pods.
Achievements include being awarded the status of National Support School in 2011 and becoming a teaching school in 2014. More recently, we have established the school as a National Centre of Excellence and have developed the capacity to support other special schools through role modelling outstanding practice.
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