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Job summary

Main area
IM&T Services
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract
Secondment: 2 years (This post may be asked to contribute to the 24 hour ‘on call’ commitment of IM&T Services)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (This post may be asked to contribute to the 24 hour ‘on call’ commitment of IM&T Services)
Job ref
321-CORP-6234152-B8a-INT
Employer
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
JR
Town
Oxford
Salary
£53,755 - £60,504 per annum pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
01/09/2024 23:59
Interview date
09/09/2024

Employer heading

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Senior Server Consultant

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

 

The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

 

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

 

Many of our recruitment programmes use Value Based Interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values


 

Job overview

This role supports a busy, fast-moving technical environment and a diverse user community across Oxfordshire, and can provide considerable technical and personal development in a wide range of technologies and operational/project functions. 

This post operates within the Server team of the IM&T Service Delivery group, and is responsible for delivery, support and administration of corporate server-based systems for approximately 18,000 users across a large number of NHS sites within Oxfordshire. 

Main duties of the job

The post holder plays a major technical role within the Server team to ensure that the service level agreements are met or exceeded, and that policies, processes and procedures within IM&T Services customer organisations adhered to.

The successful candidate will be an excellent communicator and will be experienced and technically competent in server technologies; and the development and improvement of processes and standards.

This post offers an excellent opportunity for career development in a supportive environment.

Working for our organisation

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please view OUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. 

We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. 

These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • Carries out assignments, alone or as part of a team, applying knowledge, skills, and experience. Demonstrates an understanding of the issues of interest to the client organisation and proposes viable solutions within the scope of own expertise, taking into account the needs of those affected.

  • Recognises needs outside own area of knowledge, recognises how these areas relate, calls for and works effectively with additional expertise as necessary.

  • Maintains detailed knowledge of current practice within own area of expertise. Is aware of current developments within own area of expertise. Seeks awareness, and in some cases detailed knowledge, of areas outside own area of expertise as appropriate.

For a full description please refer to the accompanying Job Description and Person Specification.

Person specification

Educational Background

Essential criteria
  • Degree or equivalent experience.
  • GCSE ‘C’ grade or equivalent in English and Maths
  • A combination of ICT Industry standard training and qualifications

Knowledge & Skills

Essential criteria
  • In depth Technical skills: Microsoft Operating Systems – Client and Server;Windows XP/7/8 & Windows Server 2003/2008/2008R2/2012
  • Active Directory – 2003/2008
  • Thin Client technologies - Citrix XenApp and MS RemoteApp
  • Hypervisors - VMWare and HyperV
  • Server, SAN & NAS infrastructure and technologies;
  • Business continuity planning
  • System Centre 2012 – SCOM, SCCM
  • Exchange 2007-2013
  • Security platforms – UAG, ISA, TMG
  • Protocol Routing; TCP/IP; DHCP; DNS; WINS
  • Project Management methodology (e.g. PRINCE2)
  • Service Management - ITIL
Desirable criteria
  • Load Balancers – F5 ideally
  • SQL 2005-2012
  • VDI
  • Dell Server and Enterprise systems
  • EMC Storage systems
  • System Centre - SM/SCORH
  • NHS ICT systems
  • Scripting/coding e.g. Powershell

Previous Experience

Essential criteria
  • Proven technical leadership experience, “Project” orientated leadership track record; delivering solutions to time and budget
  • Experience in senior role working within a large organisation’s, highly technical IT infrastructure related support team environment.
  • Customer service
  • Experience working in a Server related services discipline
  • Experience in leading and delivering high quality productivity and performance of small groups
Desirable criteria
  • Team leading
  • Awareness of financial and operational influences on projects
  • NHS experience

Communication & Relationship skills

Essential criteria
  • Team skills
  • Ability to relate appropriately to various professional groups both within and outside the Trust
  • Leadership skills
  • Good communication (spoken and written) skills
  • Ability to document work accurately
  • Thorough understanding of customer and supplier organisations
  • Ability to write clear reports and present business cases
  • Good presentation skills

Miscellaneous (if appropriate)

Essential criteria
  • Driver with access to transport

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Fair Train work experience quality standard - gold standardVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleArmed Forces Covenant (Silver Award)Embracing Equality Diversity InclusionDisability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Prince's Trust - Proud to support the Prince's trust - Youth can do itStep into healthArmed Forces Covenant

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Vasanth Manickam Gandhi
Job title
Head of Infrastructure and End User Computer
Email address
[email protected]
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