IT Technician
Woking College
Woking, Surrey
- Expired
- Salary:
- From £19,685 to £20,420 per annum, inclusive of fringe allowance, depending on experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- As soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 2 February 2022
Job overview
The Role
This is an exciting opportunity to join our friendly IT Support Department team as an IT Technician in our highly successful sixth form College. The role will involve looking after the smooth running of the College’s IT function for approximately 1400 students and 165 staff. The successful candidate will therefore have a practical, problem-solving approach to tasks and have good communication and inter-personal skills.
We are looking for an exceptional candidate for this key role in the department. We expect high performance from all our staff and are looking for an impressive individual to join the team. Candidates should demonstrate their ability and suitability to both the role and the culture of the College.
The IT Support Department is based within the College’s Learning Resources Centre and currently has 3 permanent members of staff. This role has come about due to the ongoing growth of the College as well as the College’s desire to be at the forefront of technology in education.
Start Date: as soon as possible
Hours: 37 hours per week, this is a full-time, year-round role.
The College’s core day is 8.30am to 4.00pm, but flexibility within the team ensures that the College has IT Support at both the start and end of the day.
Salary: From £19,685 to £20,420 per annum, inclusive of fringe allowance, depending on experience
Holidays: 22 days’ holiday, plus 2 additional statutory days per year
Benefits include:
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• free eye test vouchers;
• Cycle to work scheme
• Staffroom with free hot drinks available to all staff
• College gym available for staff use, yoga classes, staff football (new 3G pitch)
To Apply:
Please download the Application Pack and click the Apply Now button to access the Application Form and Recruitment Monitoring form (CVs will not be accepted on their own).
Please ensure that the application form is completed in full.
You should include a detailed supporting statement outlining your reasons for applying; experience to date, and your familiarity with the software/hardware listed in the person specification and what you can bring to this role.
Completed applications, or any queries regarding the role or your application, should be sent via email to Kirsty Crook (Personnel Officer): kcr@woking.ac.uk
Closing date: 9am, Wednesday 2 February 2022
Interviews: to be held shortly after the closing date
For further information or to return a completed Application Form and Recruitment Monitoring form, please contact:
Kirsty Crook, Personnel Officer: email: kcr@woking.ac.uk
www.woking.ac.uk
Important information:
The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointed staff will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks. The College is committed to equal opportunities.
The College encourages all candidates to be familiar with Section 1 of the DfE paper on “Keeping Children Safe in Education” September 2021 and the College's Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy. These documents can be found on the College's Staff Vacancies page, and Policies page.
In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) the College asks candidates to consider Woking College's Privacy Notice for Job Applicants, which can be found on the Staff Vacancies page of the College’s website.
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About Woking College
Woking College is an oversubscribed and highly successful college of over 1400 students drawing students from more than 60 different schools. Our very successful strategic focus has, for many years, been to create the very best environment for high quality of teaching and learning alongside the widest range of enrichment activities enhancing the cultural capital of our students. Alongside this we place a very strong emphasis on maintaining our wonderful community, we have a more diverse College population than might be thought of as typical for Surrey but we are determined to maintain our inclusive ethos. We are fully committed to innovation whilst maintaining a humane and caring approach for all members of the College community which has resulted in the doubling of the student population in recent years. These approaches have been key to securing Grade 1 ‘Outstanding’ in all seven categories in our October 2022 Ofsted inspection.
Woking College is enjoying record results, very positive value-added and an abundance of applications and quite rightly has a teaching and learning culture which is the envy of other institutions, indeed in recent staff surveys over 95% of College staff said they were proud to work at Woking College!
We have benefited hugely from an impressive transformation of the College’s estate over recent years, with the completion of a new Sports Centre in 2014, a new Arts Block in 2015 and a modern and larger Science Building in 2016. A full size 3G pitch was completed in 2020. A £3m teaching block and another £3m project working collaboratively with an adjacent community centre will enhance our estate even further within this academic year.
We recognise the advantages of collaboration and have worked hard over the years to build and maintain close working relationships with other education providers and the Local Authority. The College has been a long-standing member of S7, the Surrey and Sussex group of Sixth Form Colleges, possibly the leading college consortium nationally, and we look forward to continued positive engagement with schools, colleges and the local community for the benefit of all.
With strong leadership from our passionate and committed senior leadership team, and with the support of excellent teaching and support staff across all areas, we look forward to the continued evolution of the College; we also look forward to meeting committed, engaging and passionate people who want to join us to further enhance the life-chances and choices of our students – which is of course our main mission as educators.
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