Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides health and social care services in acute and primary care settings, community hospitals, and care centres, through the 11,000 employed staff. The Trust spans over two counties of North Tyneside and Northumberland, and has a main WAN MPLS between the main hospitals in those regions.

Northumbria Digital Services team provide, IT services to all of the Trusts directorates, departments and subsidiaries and this role is to support the team to ensure the campus LAN, WAN and Wi-Fi services are correctly designed, implemented, secured and supported to match the digital delivery needs and ambitions of the Trusts digital strategy.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received

Main duties of the job

Responsible for the management and performance of client network infrastructure LAN/WAN, WLAN and DC, providing pro-active support to ensure maximum availability of service in line with Trust service level agreements.

To be a point of escalation through the network operational team, from the digital services department and the Network technician, engineer and associate roles.

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To ensure high availability, security and usability of the network that is transparent to users.

To plan and organise a range of complex activities related to implementation of new systems including liaison with suppliers and end users, production of work plans and monitoring these to ensure completion on time and within assigned costs.

To develop and maintain efficient management of all networked systems under the control of Service.

Person Specification

Other

Essential

• It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid UK driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree in a computer related discipline or equivalent level of knowledge or experience.
• Further staff and project management knowledge to post graduate diploma level or equivalent experience in a relevant computer related discipline
• Additional specialist network related knowledge acquired through post graduate study or equivalent experience in a relevant computer services discipline.
• Specialist knowledge across range of project management procedures and techniques underpinned by theory.
• Appropriate industry recognised qualifications e.g. CCNA or CCNP, or equivalent.

Desirable

• Management or supervisory Qualification.
• TIL, VMWare, Hyper Visor
• CCNP Cyber Ops, Enterprise, Data Centre, or Security

Experience

Essential

• Experience in design, development and implementation of IT Network Infrastructure and best practices across a large organization
• Significant experience of managing a Network infrastructure LAN, WAN, WLAN across multiple sites.
• Working experience and knowledge of VSS, Flex stack, Cisco Firepower, Data Centre Technologies, Cisco Unified Communication, Wireless Network Infrastructure

Desirable

• Big-IP F5 LTM
• Solarwinds, Logic Monitor
• Cisco ISE, WLC, Spaces

Employer details

Employer name

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub

Avenue Road

Seaton Deleval

NE25 0QJ

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