Senior IT Technician
Hanwell Fields Community School, Banbury, Oxfordshire, OX16 1ER28 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
31 August 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
3 August 2026
Job details
Job role
- IT support
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £35,000.00 - £40,000.00 Annually (Actual)
Senior IT Technician job summary
We are seeking to appoint an experienced and motivated Senior IT Technician, who is proactive and has excellent customer service skills. This role requires an IT professional, who has substantial experience in technical support.
As an IT Technician within our Multi-Academy Trust, you will play a key role in supporting the day-to-day operation of IT systems across a cluster of schools. Working closely with staff, students, and senior leaders, you will provide first and second-line technical support, maintain hardware and software, and help ensure a secure, reliable, and effective IT environment.
This is a varied and hands-on role that requires excellent problem-solving skills, a customer-focused approach, and the ability to manage priorities across multiple sites. You will support classroom technology, network infrastructure, devices, and digital learning platforms, helping to enhance teaching, learning, and operational efficiency across the Trust, and other IT support.
The successful candidate will be a proactive team player with strong technical knowledge, excellent communication skills, and a commitment to delivering high-quality support in a busy educational environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Operational management of IT Services to support teaching and learning, business and administrative functions across the five primary schools.
- Provide technical support, responding to users’ helpdesk requests in a timely and effective manner to minimise any disruption to teaching, learning or administration.
- Monitor the performance and fitness for purpose of end-user devices and peripherals, resolving hardware and software faults, finding temporary workarounds where necessary and escalating to the United Learning Technology Specialist team when required
- With the support of the Business Managers and school Principals, help to develop a sustainable strategy for refresh, taking into account educational requirements, emerging technologies and affordability.
- Monitor and manage network stability and performance in each of the schools.
- Implement change requests in each of the schools as necessary.
- Ensure compliance with backup, anti-virus and other security provisions in each of the schools following United Learning’s Digital Standards.
Our offer:
- Plenty of opportunities for professional development, within the Trust
- An individual CPD pathway, to develop practice, and help you reach the next stage in your career
- An opportunity to work in a charitable organisation that is focused on improving the lives of disadvantaged children; the core value of the Trust is “best in everyone”
- A competitive salary
- 25 days annual leave (pro rata if part-time) plus bank holidays
- Enrolment into a contributory pension scheme
- Popular benefits and rewards programme
- Healthcare Plan (enrolment after 6 months service)
- £500 reward referral scheme
- A paid personal day off to use as and when you like
This post may involve both evening and weekend work and the post holder will need to demonstrate a large degree of flexibility and willingness to work unsocial hours. The need to adapt working hours around the business need of the schools is an expectancy of the job role.
Hanwell Fields Community School is part of United Learning, a large, and growing, group of schools aiming to offer a life-changing education to children and young people across England. United Learning is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All positions are subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and shortlisted candidates will be subject to an online check. We always appoint on merit, and we are open to discussing flexible working options.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Hanwell Fields Community School is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates.
Hanwell Fields Community School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all who work at the School to share this commitment. For all interviewees an online Google search will be carried out in line with the updated KCSiE guidance [para.221]. Successful applicants will be subject to a robust pre-employment process and child protection screening including an enhanced disclosure through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and checks with previous employers.
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Hanwell Fields Community School
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- Size
- 454 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
At Hanwell Fields, we put our pupils and our community at the heart of all that we do. We believe success comes from the strength of partnerships between pupils, staff and parents and we are committed to preserving and developing these links.
We are committed to the continuous professional development of all our staff. We believe that every member of the school community should enjoy a love of learning and, as a school, we take pride in supporting our teachers and staff through reflective practice and coaching.
We have a great team of staff who are dedicated learners themselves that have the pupils at the core of what they do. We serve a mixed community, which includes some pockets of real deprivation, but every pupil at Hanwell Fields is given the chance to be themselves, learn and flourish as young people.
We would encourage anyone interested in starting or continuing their careers with us to visit our school and see for themselves what a vibrant, aspirational primary school Hanwell Fields is.
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