About this role
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Server and Storage Team for two highly skilled engineers. We are looking for motivated, dynamic individuals to help ensure our server estate and associated infrastructure remain robust, secure, and well-maintained.
You'll be supporting critical digital services used across Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, including GP Practices and Community Services. Your work will directly contribute to the reliability and performance of systems that underpin patient care.
Key Responsibilities:
Technical implementation -- Deliver efficient, cost-effective system implementations while minimising disruption to patient care.
Advanced troubleshooting -- Investigate and diagnose complex server and infrastructure issues
Technical project management -- Lead new system implementations from a technical perspective, ensuring smooth delivery and integration.
Systems integration -- Develop small-scale software solutions to meet integration and automation needs.
IT systems development -- Help develop, manage, and control systems created by the Health Informatics Service for partner NHS organisations.
You'll be part of a team that underpins essential NHS services, ensuring clinicians and support staff have the stable, secure systems they need to deliver outstanding care. This is a chance to work with modern infrastructure, contribute to meaningful digital transformation, and grow your technical expertise in a supportive environment.
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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Job description Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements Essential
The ability to work on own initiative Project management skills
Desirable
Ability to supervise staff.
Qualifications Essential
Degree, or HNC/D, or BTEC Microsoft Office Applications Email Platforms Microsoft Windows Server O/S current version Networking Virtualisation Cloud Technologies SQL Databases
Desirable
Linux RDMS (any) O365 Tenant Administration Knowledge of at least one clinical system VCP
Experience Essential
At least 5 years previous technical experience within IT 3 at a senior technical level.
Contractual Essential
Must have own car and clean driving licence Take part in oncall rota Able to work flexibly outside of normal working hours
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details Employer name Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address Ilkeston Community Hospital
Heanor Road
Ilkeston
DE7 8LN
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)