Technical Systems Specialist - Multi Sites

The Quill C Of E Trust, Bolton, BL6 4SG

10 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  25 October 2025 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  15 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • IT support
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £14.00 Hourly

Technical Systems Specialist - Multi Sites job summary

What You’ll Be Doing

• Managing and developing Trust-wide IT infrastructure, including firewalls, servers, switching and Wi-Fi (Aruba Central).
• Overseeing key systems such as Intune, Defender, Lightspeed, Bromcom, Sophos Central, Power BI, and VOIP.
• Monitoring and improving HaloITSM helpdesk KPIs, ensuring timely and high-quality support.
• Leading school onboarding and system migration projects, ensuring smooth integration into Trust systems.
• Working towards improving our Microsoft Secure Score and maintaining Cyber Essentials compliance.
• Collaborating with school and central leaders to enhance systems and digital processes across the Trust.
• Providing first-line support cover during periods of absence, leave, or increased demand.

What We’re Looking For

• Proven experience managing IT infrastructure and systems within an education or SME setting.
• Strong technical knowledge across Microsoft 365, Azure AD, and Intune (essential).
• Experience with onboarding new schools and system migrations.
• Proven ability to manage helpdesk systems and meet performance KPIs.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Secure Score and Cyber Essentials standards.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills with senior stakeholders.
• A hands-on, solution-focused approach and the ability to lead IT projects independently.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a growing, forward-thinking Multi-Academy Trust.
• Shape how IT supports teaching, learning and operations.
• Access to professional development and certification opportunities.
• Supportive team culture and the autonomy to make a real impact

Our Academy Trust is committed to improving the life chances of all children through education and personal development. Each child is unique. We encourage and support every child through their exciting journey within our trust equipping them with the skills they need for the future.

Our approach is based on sharing excellence within our trust, recruiting, training and retaining the highest calibre of staff who share our vision of enlightening, enriching, empowering and evolving a generation through education.

‘Enlightening, Enriching, Empowering and Evolving generations through education’

We offer a fantastic supportive place to work along with flexible work opportunities, including hybrid working, access to the Local Government Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services. 

The Trust is committed to safer recruitment practices and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. This post is subject to an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and it expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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

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.

About The Quill C Of E Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-bede-church-of-england-primary-multi-academy-trust

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