ICT Technician, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire £20,344 - £22,462 - Closes 29/07/20

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ICT Technician

Pay Scale: H5 SCP 9 – 14 (£20,344 - £22,462)

Hours: 8.00am until 4.00pm (37 hours per week, 52 weeks per year)

Start Date: September 2020

Ridgeway Academy is a member of the Alban Academies Trust (AAT), together with Sandringham and Verulam schools. We work in a multi-academy trust to share best practice, deliver joint training, promote the highest of expectations and raise achievement for all students. The AAT motto is ‘Educational Excellence for Everyone’. The trust offers significant opportunities for career development of staff at all levels within our organisation.

 

We opened in September 2018, as part of the Alban Academies Trust, to great excitement from our community with the aim of becoming a truly outstanding school in the future. Our motto is ‘Everyone can achieve’ and we are looking to appoint an outstanding person who can help us achieve our ambitions.

 

An ICT Technician is required to join the ICT team at Ridgeway Academy to work full time (52 weeks) to provide first line IT support services to students and staff on school related IT, supporting teaching and learning by maintaining IT hardware (in consultation with outside agencies if appropriate) and ensure the efficient running of all computers throughout the school on a day-to-day basis. Whilst the position is based at Ridgeway Academy, you will be working with a team of highly skilled ICT Technicians and Managers across the Trust.

 

If you are an energetic team player with initiative and drive and an interest in working in a committed educational environment we welcome your application.

 

We are looking for someone who:

Has knowledge of:

 

• Basic TCP/IP
  
• Windows Network diagnostic and optimisation
  
• Microsoft Windows 10 Workstations
  
• PC and Server hardware
  
• Windows Server System administration
  
• Has flexibility and sensitivity to the needs and levels of knowledge of a wide range of users of the school
  
• Has patience and the ability to work on their own initiative and prioritise tasks
  
• Can demonstrate practical knowledge and problem solving strategies
  
• Has effective communication skills
  
• Is able to keep abreast of new developments in software, hardware and new technologies
  
• Can share and deliver in the vision to be an outstanding department
  

We can offer you:

 

• A collaborative, supportive team with a passion for facilitating student progress
  
• Enthusiastic students who are keen to progress
  
• Appropriate professional development
  

If you would like to join us on our continuing journey and have access to amazing career prospects through the trust, we would love to hear from you.

 

We are totally committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the DBS, satisfactory references and medical clearance.

 

An application form is available on our website, www.ridgeway.herts.sch.uk or apply on Teach in Herts click here. Applications must include a cover letter, no more than two sides of A4. If you have any queries, please contact the Headteacher’s PA via email ([email protected]).

 

Prospective candidates are encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible as the school reserves the right to close the advert should we feel able to appoint an appropriate candidate.

Closing date: 9.00am Wednesday 29 July 2020

 

Interview date: Wednesday 5 August 2020

 

Contact details

Helen Smith , Headteacher's PA

Herns Lane Welwyn Garden City

Hertfordshire AL7 2AF

 

Telephone: 01707 351350

Fax: 01707 351357

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.ridgeway.herts.sch.uk

Edited July 14, 2020 by ridgeway_academy