Digital Infrastructure Network Specialist

The Digital Infrastructure Network Specialist role is responsible for implementing, supporting and maintaining the Trust's secure WAN and LAN network infrastructure including VoIP telecoms. In collaboration with other specialist Digital roles, this post ensures that the network infrastructure is capable of supporting and providing secure, resilient and highly available services and access to all of the applications, tools, data and services necessary for the provision of patient care at RNOH.

It is expected that the post holder will be engaged in a number of Digital Services projects, where good project management skills will be required.

The post holder will contribute to the development and implementation of Cyber Security protection plans for the Trust and ensure that the Trust risk is minimised at all times. This will involve developing and managing processes and procedures for this purpose.

The Trusts Digital systems are primarily supported by three teams, with the Digital Service Desk, Digital Infrastructure and Digital Applications teams working side by side to ensure excellent customer service for all end users. All three teams work must work in partnership with each other to troubleshoot issues, and identify and implement continuous service improvement opportunities to ensure that the Trust has a reliable, robust, high performing Digital systems that meet the needs of our end users.

Main duties of the job

Provide specialist technical expertise in network and network security infrastructure including telecoms

Provide specialist technical expertise for Extreme, Cisco and Mitel VoIP technologies

Provide specialist expertise in WAN and LAN technologies, ensuring highly available and diverse connectivity

Develop and maintain backup and disaster recovery plans for network and network security infrastructure

Collaborate with other technical specialist to ensure best practice Cyber Security controls are in place

Ensure that there is an effective automated continual and daily monitoring systems for all network and network security infrastructure components.

Document all network and network security systems, describing their physical and logical implementation, admin accounts, security controls and all dependencies. List Trust services that each these support (to support business continuity and disaster recovery requirements).

Analyse, log and action all CareCERT and other relevant security bulletins to improve the cyber security assurance of the Trust. Ensure that there is a process for review of these controls and that reviews are scheduled and documented.

Contributes to maintaining the Infrastructure Team's Programme of Work and/or tasks list.

RNOH Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field. We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro-musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the trust. RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world's most complex and innovative care to our patients. RNOH is rated good by the CQC and covers two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility. For more