IT Technician

Job title: IT Technician 

Job number: PV21-86

Location: Trust wide, base school - Wolgarston

Employer: Penk Valley Academy Trust

Contract: Full time (37hours), Full Year

Closing date for applications : Monday 27th June 2022

Start date: ASAP

Salary: starting salary £22,183.00 increasing to £27,041.00 (in line with performance progression)

Shift Patterns: 08:30 to 16:30  

Accountable to: IT Network Manager

About the Role

This is a fantastic opportunity for an IT Technician to join our growing Academy Trust within South Staffordshire. Using your initiative and flexible approach you will help support over 2000 students and 350 staff members across our 7 schools. 

Your working week will be split between your dedicated base of Wolgarston High School, Penkridge and supporting visits to the remaining schools as required and arranged with line management. 

Duties will include

• Logging support calls

• Responding to logged tickets

• Investigation, resolution or escalation of issues within SLA 

• Administration of the asset register

• Ensuring that staff and students have access to the data and resources they need

• Deployment and maintenance of PCs, laptops, tablets and other equipment such as scanners, printers, interactive wallboards and projectors

• Scheduled hardware testing

• Administration of user accounts within Active Directory and other systems

• Software and system upgrades and monitoring of services

Visits to the Trust are welcomed. To arrange this please contact HR at HR@penkvalley.co.uk

Skills Required:

• Help desk experience

• Microsoft Windows

• Office365

• Knowledge and experience of Active Directory

• Hardware Maintenance

Advantageous:

• Educational IT support experience

Being part of Penk Valley Academy Trust:

Penk Valley Academy Trust is the local academy trust for the following schools: Marshbrook First School, Princefield First School, St John’s First School, St Mary & St Chad CE First School, Penkridge Middle School, Wolgarston High School and The Rural Enterprise Academy. 

The Trust’s vision is to take collective responsibility for ensuring that every child and young person in our Trust receives an excellent education, achieves high outcomes and realises their potential. All members of staff work incredibly hard to provide the very best education for every child in our care

Benefits:

• An opportunity to enrol in the Staffordshire local government pension fund. A fund that has an employer’s contribution of 26.2% towards your career averaged pension

• Discounted Gym membership at Penkridge leisure Centre

• Cycle to work scheme

• 24 days annual leave increasing to 29 with service, plus bank holidays

• Overtime is paid at flat rate or TOIL 

• Paid mileage between base school and other schools

• Opportunities for training and further development including access to LinkedIn learning platform

How to apply

To apply for the role, you will need to complete an application form. Application forms and job specification are available on the trust website 

All completed application forms should be sent by email to HR@penkvalley.co.uk or posted to the below address. 

PVAT HR

c/o Wolgarston High School

Cannock Road

Penkridge

ST19 5RX

Candidates who are shortlisted will be informed by telephone or email

The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and responsibility.  Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.

All staff working in the School during the school day will have contact with children and will therefore be in regulated activity. 

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.