Starting date: 1st September 2022
Contract / Hours: Permanent, Full time (37.5 hours per week)
Application closing date: Sunday 12th 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 across three sites 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 server maintenance, repair and recovery, as well as a detailed understanding of Windows networks/servers (AD, DHCP, DNS, Group Policy, etc.) and the majority of desktop applications, Microsoft Office, Adobe. For further information please refer to the detailed job description and person specification.
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.
- Membership to the Local Government Pension Scheme.
- Employees can join our cycle-to-work scheme.
- Discounted gym membership
- A 24/7 employee assistance programme which provides counselling, support and advice on a wide array of areas
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 reserve the right to appoint before the deadline for an exceptional candidate.
Closing date for applications: Sunday 12th June 2022, midnight
Interviews: Wednesday 22nd June 2022
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.
Cathedral Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
