Senior IT Technician
Christopher Nieper Education Trust, Alfreton, DE55 7LE20 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2026
Closing date
6 August 2026 at 9am
Date listed
17 July 2026
Job details
Job role
- IT support
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £32,347.00 - £34,317.00 Annually (FTE) (Grade 9 Points 16-19)
Senior IT Technician job summary
The Trust
As of September 2025, the Christopher Nieper Education Trust is made up of 4 schools, all within a 5-mile radius of David Nieper Academy.
David Nieper Academy, 11-19 - 820 pupils
Stonebroom Primary & Nursery School, 3-11 - 220 pupils (3.8 miles)
Shirland Primary School, 4-11 - 170 pupils (2.5 miles)
Mickley Village Primary & Nursery School, 3-11 - 65 pupils (4.6 miles)
The ability to drive between schools is an essential requirement of this role.
37 Hours / 52 Weeks per year.
8am - 4pm Monday to Thursday and 8am - 3.30pm Friday.
Some flexibility in hours may be required at certain points to support the operational requirements of the Schools and Trust
General Responsibilities
You will provide 1st-line IT Support and advanced 2nd-line IT support across the Christopher Nieper Education Trust as required, supporting Headteachers, staff and students across all schools within the Trust, acting as an escalation point for the IT Support Technician. You will complete complex tasks, manage stakeholders to high standards, and oversee critical infrastructure. Successful candidates must be able to demonstrate good attention to detail and have a flexible approach to their work. You will provide hands-on support and system administration while collaborating with our external IT support company. You will be working as part of a supportive and friendly team and your main responsibilities will include duties such as
Providing dedicated 1st and 2nd-line support, resolving escalated technical issues:
- Administering and maintaining Office 365 environments (Exchange, SharePoint, Intune).
- Managing, configuring, and troubleshooting Trust networking equipment (switches, VLANs, firewalls).
- Managing and maintaining Hyper-V virtualization environments and server infrastructure.
- Acting as a primary point of contact for vendor management, liaising with external suppliers, IT support partners and Managed Service Providers to ensure rapid issue resolution.
- Supporting the Trust IT Lead in carrying out technical support and infrastructure projects.
- Ensuring relevant IT records and network documentation are kept up to date at all times.
- Working to ensure technical issues are resolved in a timely manner.
- Working with External Vendors and MSP to ensure IT service continuity
Supported Services
Desktop Computers
Laptops
Servers
Office 365 / Intune / M365 Cloud (including Endpoint Manager)
Hyper-V Servers and Virtualization
Firewalls (Sophos)
Networking Equipment (e.g. Switches, Wireless APs, Network storage)
Audio and Visual Equipment
Personal Qualities
Mature attitude
Smart in appearance
Responsible
Strong work ethic
High levels of motivation
Genuine desire to work with and learn about new technologies in computing
Further information about the job
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 will not be accepted for this application.
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- Multi-academy trust
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