Digital Services Senior Network Engineer – Band 6
We are recruiting for an exciting opportunity within Digital Services to join the Infrastructure team in delivering an edge network and firewallrefresh across all Lincolnshire community sites.
Please be advised that the start date for the successful candidate is subject to deferment. The exact timing will be confirmed at offer stage.
Main duties of the job
This role requires strong field engineering skills, and the confidence to troubleshoot technical issues, including liaising with third parties when necessary. Accuracy in documentation and record-keeping is essential, and you will be expected to uphold a consistently high professional standard.
Typical responsibilities include:
- Attending sites across Lincolnshire to replace network hardware
- Ensuring all software and clinical applications function correctly after device replacement
- Providing support and guidance to delivery technicians working alongside you
About us
Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
Pilgrim Hospital is situated in beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.
Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.
This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.
The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).
Person Specification
Qualifications
- HNC/HND preferably in a relevant technical subject
- Degree, preferably in a relevant technical subject
Previous Experience
- Network +
- Holds relevant industry qualification ie Cisco CCNA, CCNP
Evidence of Particular Knowledge, skills and Aptitudes
- Knowledge of modern data communications infrastructures – Gigabit Ethernet, fast Ethernet and Ethernet technologies
- Experience working as part of a team
- Knowledge of network protocols – TCPIP, RIP, DHCP, DNS etc
- Good maintenance and fault finding skills
- Good reasoning skills and ambition
- Good Analytical skills
- Ability to plan and prioritise own workload
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to use own initiative
- Good inter-personnel and communication skills
- Applying quality standards to all tasks undertaken and ensuring that nothing is overlooked
- Knowledge of the Data Protection Act 1984 to ensure confidentiality
- Working knowledge of firewall and security management
- Working knowledge of layer 2/3 networking principles
- Ability to accumulate, source and evaluate a range of information
- Ability to assess the needs for the future needs of the service
- To continually strive towards cross-skilling in order further personal development
- Flexibility, adaptability and the ability to deal with change
- To keep up-to-date with trends and advances in IT both within the general IT market and the NHS
Specific Requirements
- Mobile, able to travel to other sites to provide support
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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