What skills and experience we're looking for Starting date: 1st August 2024 or thereafterContract / Hours: Permanent, Full ti.....
What skills and experience we're looking for
Starting date: 1st August 2024 or thereafter
Contract / Hours: Permanent, Full time (37.5 hours per week)
Application closing date: Sunday 30th June, midnight
Cathedral Schools Trust is seeking an enthusiastic and highly skilled ICT technician to join a dynamic and proactive ICT team. You will predominantly be working at a single site within the Trust, working with the Site ICT Technical lead and Trust ICT Director, ICT team, as well as independently. You will need to be flexible to work across multiple school sites in Bristol, as such the successful candidate will need to hold a valid UK driving licence.
You will be providing remote and face to face technical support in line with the Trust's ICT support service to allow the effective use of ICT by both staff and students. You will also provide advice and training to improve both their understanding of ICT and their experience of its use, diagnosing and troubleshooting problems as required. This means that you will need to be able to build positive relationships to clearly communicate technical issues to non-specialists and be able to guide staff and students through steps needed to resolve issues.
The successful candidate will need to demonstrate initiative to deal with unexpected situations during the school day and have excellent organisational skills. You will need to be able to work under pressure, to deadlines, whilst maintaining a sense of humour.
Ideally the successful candidate will have proven experience in an IT environment, with hands-on experience of 1st or 2nd line IT support and maintaining customer relationships. The successful candidate will demonstrate the capacity to troubleshoot in a logical and calm manner. It is essential the candidate has the drive to learn and develop within this role, our team values the ability to progress more than pre-existing skills.
If you would like to find out more about CST, please visit our website: Cathedral Schools Trust
Please note that we will only consider applications through iTrent and will not consider CVs so please ensure that your supporting statement on the iTrent application form meets the requirements of the person specification. We encourage you to be succinct.
We recommend early applications as the Trust reserves the right to close the advert prior to the stated deadline date.
Closing date for applications: Sunday 30th June, midnight
Interviews: Wednesday 10th July, St Katherine’s School, Pill
Cathedral Schools Trust is an equal opportunities employer and recognises the strength in diversity. Our schools have a wide range of cultural, socio economic and religious influences and we use this to ensure that we broaden our understanding of each other and the world.
Applications are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or religious belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender reassignment, disability or age, and maternity, marital or civil partner status. We particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts at Cathedral Schools Trust are subject to pre-employment checks incl, but not limited to, initial and periodic enhanced level checks with the Disclosure and Barring Service.
What the school offers its staff
What you will get from Cathedral Schools Trust:
• The chance to join a growing organisation during an extremely exciting time, with the opportunity for development.
• Competitive pension schemes through Teachers Pensions or LGPS
• Employee Assistance Programme (Health Assured)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted gym membership (PureGym and Nuffield Health)
• Continuing Professional and Leadership development
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.