IT Service Manager
Paxman Academy
Essex
- £31,067 - £34,314 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Local Government Pay Scale 7, Point 19-24
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- ASAP
- Apply by:
- 30 March 2025
Job overview
PAXMAN ACADEMY
IT SERVICE MANAGER
Pay Range: Local Government Scale 7
Actual Salary from: £31,067 - £34,314 (Point 19-24)
Start Date: ASAP
The Role
We are seeking an outstanding individual to collaboratively contribute to the School’s IT team, ensuring seamless access to outstanding IT services for both staff and students. This position demands a blend of technical proficiency, superb communication skills, and the adeptness to cater to the varied requirements of a thriving educational institution within The Sigma Trust.
Paxman Academy opened to Year 7 students in September 2019 and is a co-educational, fully comprehensive 11-16 Academy with a PAN of 180. It is a heavily oversubscribed school which is held in high regard in the community.
- This post is 37 hours per week, 52 weeks per year (full-time).
- Please note that we reserve the right to close this advert early should we receive an overwhelming response.
Some of your key responsibilities will be:
- To line manage members of the IT Support Team, including carrying out their performance management
- To support staff and students with the use of ICT including online support, and assisting with staff and student training where appropriate
- To support staff and students with the set-up and preparation of ICT equipment
- Report any detected breach of the school’s ICT acceptable use policy to the relevant Manager
- Assist the Headteachers and Trust leaders with ensuring the management of digital Safeguarding
- Install and maintain computer hardware, clients, laptops, audio/visual equipment and peripherals.
(The full details can be found in the attached Job Outline and Person Specification).
We're looking for you if you have:
- Experience in IT systems administration and web-based platforms
- Previous experience in IT technology transferable to Google Workspace administration
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills and are approachable and flexible
- Good planning and organisation skills with the ability to prioritise demands
- The ability to work under pressure and to deadlines, retaining good attention to detail.
Why work for The Sigma Trust, Paxman Academy?
We can offer you:
- A Competitive Salary
- Robust school CPD training programme that enables you to flourish
- Opportunities to work with colleagues across the Trust to share resources, ideas and build collaborative relationships
Employee benefits include:
- Excellent pension scheme
- A Health Cash Plan
- Free membership to Perkbox, offering discounts and savings
- Employee Assistance Programme providing free and confidential advice
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Eye care plan
- Annual free flu vaccination
- Discounted gym membership at selected local gyms
- Discounted cinema tickets
- Eligible for Blue Light Card
Please note that an integration period applies to all new staff joining the Trust, to support introduction into the organisation.
Additional Information:
For additional information about the Trust and this school, please visit our website www.sigmatrust.org.uk
To Apply
To apply for this post, please follow the URL link provided below:
Please note that only fully completed application forms will be accepted and any CV’s and accompanying covering letters will be disregarded. A Notes for Applicants document is attached for further information.
- Closing date: Midnight, Sunday 30th March 2025
- Interview date: Thursday 3rd April 2025
The Sigma Trust is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and other vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practice across our schools.
The Sigma Trust is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of any protected characteristics. This is embedded in our vision ‘To Be Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts’, where we believe we are strong and more successful working together, creating a workplace which celebrates diversity.
Attached documents
About Paxman Academy
- Paxman Academy
- Paxman Avenue, Colchester
- Essex
- CO2 9DQ
- United Kingdom
Paxman Academy is a newly built, co-educational, fully comprehensive 11-16 academy, which opened its doors in September 2019. In its first two years of opening, the Academy has been a popular choice and is heavily oversubscribed.
The Academy enjoys state of the art buildings, including:
• Seven science laboratories that have been equipped to the highest standard
• Excellent technology facilities, including two well-equipped workshops
• Computer suites, equipped with the most up-to-date hardware
• A large auditorium to enable high quality performances to take place
• A dance studio with a sprung floor
• A drama studio
• A music suite, including three practice rooms and a control room for the auditorium
• A large sports hall
• Large playing fields
• An artificial 3G pitch
• A library
• The latest classroom technology to enhance students’ learning experiences
Our ethos is founded on a desire to provide an ordered, stimulating learning environment in which all students are encouraged to achieve their best. It is determined that all students should be valued through the provision of a broad, relevant, balanced and challenging curriculum that caters for individual needs. This is encouraged within an atmosphere of mutual respect.
The Academy recognises its role within the broader community. It is determined to maintain a STEM focus throughout the curriculum and across extended learning opportunities. It identifies learning as a lifelong process and values the contribution made by parents and others to the creation of a partnership. Within this partnership, and through learning opportunities provided, students develop skills, attitudes and values that prepare them to accept the challenges and responsibilities of adult life.
Our curriculum is designed to challenge and stretch students; there is a focus on the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) subjects, but time is given to also develop creativity and flair in other areas. Underpinning all of this there is an emphasis on the development of communication, reasoning and problem solving skills to support our STEM focus and to prepare students for life beyond school.
Paxman Academy prides itself on the quality of its staff. The combination of experience, expertise, enthusiasm and commitment ensures that students, parents and carers receive the best possible service. We are committed to providing the best learning opportunities for our students and believe that effective learning is derived from high quality teaching with high expectations, which inspire, motivate and challenge students. This is achieved by regular review and reflection of classroom practice so that teachers are able to develop as professionals and meet the needs of a changing world.
Paxman Academy embraces the values of The Sigma Trust to ensure that all students will fulfil their potential and transform life chances for all. We achieve this by:
• The development of productive, positive working relationships, so that every student is valued as an individual who is known and respected within an ordered and purposeful community that prepares them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of life in modern Britain.
• Inspiring the next generation, encouraging ambition and aspiration by fostering excellence in learning through first class teaching across a broad range of subjects.
• An engaging, broad and balanced curriculum that maintains a STEM focus and develops the skills of creativity, problem solving and investigation whilst promoting a healthy and active lifestyle.
• The development of effective partnerships and collaboration for the benefit and wellbeing of our community.
This is an extremely exciting period in the development of Paxman Academy.
Safeguarding
The Sigma Trust is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and other vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practice across our schools.
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