Senior Network Specialist

Are you a self-motivated and talented Network Engineer? Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a real difference in a key role?

Our clinical services are provided across 100 plus sites in the East Midlands and a vital part of providing these services is communication throughout the Trust. This is an opportunity to be one of the senior members of a team of skilled engineers who are responsible for looking after the Trust's data and voice services whose aim is to deliver high quality always on network for staff and patients.

In this role you will be responsible for predominantly 3rdline support, maintenance, and development of the Trusts Wireless Network Services and assist in supporting the Data Network in general. This is a customer focused role requiring good technical and communication skills along with the ability to operate independently when required.

The Digital Services Network team provide data and voice services across a wide variation of trust sites and Partner Organisation’s. Including Local Area Networks and Wide Area Networks, Telephony and Wireless.

Development of services through innovation is important to the trust and part of this role includes being technical lead in Network and Digital services projects liaising with internal and external suppliers and partners. Senior Network Specialists will also provide operational technical support assisting the Network Engineers in problem management within the team, supervising and mentoring them as required.

We have a huge variety of opportunities in our expansive Trust covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands.

We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career and gain some amazing experiences. We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits and tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes.

Do you want to make a difference?

Do you believe in Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork?

Then Nottinghamshire Healthcare is the perfect place for you to start, maintain or further your career.
Join our team of nearly 9000 who are making a difference every day. We are all about our people - our staff, volunteers, carers, service users and patients. We are NottsHC.

An opportunity has arisen for the post of Senior Network Specialist - Wireless within the Network team which is part of the Digital Services department of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. The Trust has an ambitious strategy to use Information and Communications Technologies to radically change the way it delivers its services to patients. This includes the need to enable clinicians to use electronic patient records all the time when they see, diagnose, review, treat and communicate with or about patients regardless of who owns the building or site they are working from. In addition, the Trust has heavily invested in adopting M365 and Azure cloud services.

A key element in supporting this strategy is connectivity of ICT networks within the region across multiple NHS and local authority organisations. Therefore, it is essential that the Trust's infrastructure meets the requirement to be “always on” and provide a safe, secure network environment.

The Trust’s current data, voice and wireless network covers over 100 sites located in Nottinghamshire with sites also in South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire.

The Trust operates a Cisco based wireless platform, so proven experience of management and support of an Enterprise Wireless environment is essential and Cisco a distinct advantage.

As any technology advances, you will need to have a keen interest in developing these systems to support the Trust’s IT estate.

The Digital services department provides Out of hours support to the Trust and the Network Team members are required to be part of this.

Please note, a full UK driving license and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.

The Senior Network Specialist - Wireless role will require you to:

- Assist the Network Manager with key development issues and projects.
- Provide the Wireless administration functions across the Trust to maximise system up-time including the monitoring of all appliances.
- Conduct 2nd and 3rd line BAU tasks including installation, configuration and fault diagnosis of wireless network services.
- Conduct or supervise comprehensive RF surveys of sites including acurate documentation.
- Assist the Network Manager in procurement of new solutions and services.
- Implement and maintain the highest standards of security and resilience for all corporate and clinical systems.
- Ensure that helpdesk and technical staff are