IT Service Desk Technician

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic individual who is keen to be at the forefront of IT innovation within the NHS. You will be part of a dedicated, hardworking team delivering first point of contact for all Bolton Hospital issues and queries, providing excellent customer services and first time fixes.
As an employer and sponsor licence holder, to be able to provide sponsorship to overseas nationals via the Skilled Worker route we must ensure that we adhere to the sponsorship requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration. After carefully reviewing this role, we do not believe that this position meets the requirements for sponsorship. For details on eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visa, please follow this link to the gov.uk website Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk), Here at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust our non-clinical and clinical teams work hand-in-hand to ensure the best care for the people of Bolton. This includes our dedicated in-house IT team and we have an opportunity for someone, with the right technical skills, and a real passion for innovation and brilliant customer service, to join that team as IT Systems Engineer.
Based at the Royal Bolton Hospital site, you will help provide technical support services to 7,500 users over 25 sites, ensuring that those services are efficient and responsive to the needs of the Trust. This is a busy service giving you exposure to a wide range of technical infrastructure and advanced technologies; building on that exposure we will ensure that the role provides you with a comprehensive and structured career path and development plan.
The requirements for the role are outlined in the attached Job Description and Person Specification and we would ask you to consider these before applying for the role. Most importantly you will be a great communicator and team player; and someone who fits in really well with our established team who are seen as subject experts providing a helpful and friendly service.
We hope the above has encouraged you to join a high-performing IT team in an equally high-performing Trust! We look forward to hearing from you.

The Trust is a great place to work, evidenced by the most recently NHS Staff Survey results where our staff ranked us as the best NHS place to work in Greater Manchester. We are really proud of this and ensure that everyone in the Trust is both seen and heard. It has been a challenging time for the NHS with the national pandemic response at the forefront of our minds and activities, but we are coming out of pandemic pressures with renewed energy and it is a truly exciting time for the Trust with investment and development of the IT Infrastructure of which this role will be a key part., The vision of this Trust is to be recognised by the people of Bolton and beyond as an excellent provider of health and care services and a great place to work. We are striving to attract, recruit and retain high calibre skilled staff which reflect our communities. We are an inclusive employer who trains and develops our staff in a positive learning environment.
We thrive on cultivating cultural architecture, if you have the right skills, attitudes and behaviours, in line with our Trust values, we welcome and appreciate the diversity you bring to our organisation.
We offer a wide range of staff benefits please click on the link below to see what current benefits we have.
Staff benefits - Bolton NHS FT (boltonft.nhs.uk)
From time to time we may need to close a vacancy early when in receipt of a sufficient number of applications. If you are interested in this post and wish to be considered, we strongly advise you to complete and submit your application as soon as possible.