IT Support Analyst

Job overview

We are looking for individuals who are passionate about helping others and delivering excellent customer service. Whether you already have some IT knowledge or are looking to begin a career in technology, this role offers an opportunity to learn and develop within a supportive Digital Services team.

Working within the IT Support Analyst team, you will support Trust staff with a wide range of IT enquiries, requests and issues, working closely with experienced colleagues across the IT Support Technician, and IT Asset & Procurement teams.

Through hands-on experience, training and mentoring, you will build your technical knowledge whilst providing advice, guidance and outstanding customer service to users across the Trust.

The role focuses on delivering a positive customer experience, developing problem-solving skills, and contributing to the effective delivery of IT services that support both staff and patient care.

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Provide friendly, professional and customer-focused support to Trust staff across a range of IT enquiries, requests and issues. Deliver support to colleagues throughout the Trust, including remote and satellite sites, ensuring a positive and consistent customer experience at every interaction. Offer advice, guidance and reassurance to users, helping them to make effective use of technology and digital services.

Develop knowledge and confidence in supporting hardware, software and digital service requests whilst working closely with colleagues across Digital Services. Ensure all contacts received through telephone, face-to-face, self-service, email or other support channels are fully understood, accurately recorded and progressed through the Trust's IT Service Management system.

Maintain regular communication with users, providing updates on progress, expected timescales and outcomes. Work collaboratively with internal teams and external support providers to ensure users receive timely and effective assistance, escalating requests when appropriate and supporting the resolution of more complex issues alongside experienced colleagues.

Share knowledge and learning within the team to support continuous improvement and development. Promote good digital practices and encourage the effective, secure and efficient use of technology across the Trust. Support the delivery of a high-quality IT service that enables colleagues to provide safe, effective and efficient patient care.

Working for our organisation

The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, looking after more than 64,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 25% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.

We are the largest radiotherapy provider in the NHS with one in 20 treatments delivered at The Christie. We have up to 15 linear accelerators operating across our network of sites. We operate the largest chemotherapy unit in the UK on our main site and treatments are also provided at 13 other networked sites, and in patients homes. And as a specialist tertiary surgical centre, we focus on rare cancers, complex procedures, and multidisciplinary approaches to cancer surgery, specialising in colorectal, peritoneal, gynaecological, urological and plastic surgery.

We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years. We have been named by the UK’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), as one of the best hospitals providing opportunities for patients to participate in clinical research studies, with more than 800 studies open at any time, caring for over 3,000 patients.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for logging all Service Desk calls reported by users and answer all enquiries, detailing time and date, customer name and location and the description of the call as well as issuing a call reference number to the user, in line with our Service Desk minimum data set requirement.
• To deliver exceptional Customer Service striving to achieve first time resolution.
• To provide proactive technical 1st Line IT support to all Trust staff.
• To escalate tickets to the 2nd Line and IT Asset & Procurement teams.
• To ensure all support requests and incidents via any inbound channel are properly understood and recorded on our ITSM system.
• Track open tickets maintaining regular contact with individual staff or departments informing them of progress and expected resolution times.
• Provide technical support to troubleshoot incidents.
• Report any high-priority security breaches to your line manager.
• Responsible for ensuring any P1 or P2 ticket are highlighted to your line manager.
• Support the installation and configuration of IT hardware and software as directed.
• To proactively manage all personal workloads, ensuring all tickets are worked on within the set Service Level Agreements.
• To achieve the set Service Desk KPI’s and Service Level Agreements.
• Provide software advice on a variety of systems to enable Trust staff to best utilise available IT systems and resources reducing future Service Desk calls.
• Liaise with third party suppliers and support companies as required.
• To adhere to all Service Desk technical processes and guidelines as well as Trust processes and standards.
• Support and maintain the Digital Services Asset database (CMDB).
• To ensure the ITSM system is fully updated with all activity including notes and knowledge base articles.
• Adhere to security best practices given the confidential information that the post holder may come into contact within their role.
• To contribute towards a personal development plan, ensuring technical knowledge is continually improved.
• Provide support of remote sites e.g., peripheral clinics and Trust satellite sites.
• Any other tasks as reasonably required and requested.
• To participate in a staff rota covering our core business support hours which is between 8am and 6 pm Monday to Friday excluding bank holidays.

The closing date for this post may be extended if there are insufficient applicants or brought forward if there is a high volume of applicants.

Application Information - If you have not heard from us within four weeks of the closing date, I regret that on this occasion your application will have been unsuccessful.

Sponsorship Information - We are an approved sponsoring organisation. Applications will be considered from applicants requiring sponsorship alongside all other applications. Please be aware, not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible role and requirements on the government website.

Pre-Employment Checks - To confirm your suitability for the role, we will carry out pre-employment checks in line with NHS Employment Check Standards. These include:

• Identity verification
• Right to work check
• Disclosure and barring service (DBS)/Criminal record check (dependent on role, payment of this will be the applicants responsibility)
• Professional registration and/or qualification check
• Occupational health assessment
• Employment history and reference validation

All applicants external to The Christie NHS Foundation Trust will be required to provide their HMRC employment history to cover the most recent three years employment. This information will used to validate employment history and references.

If you require sponsorship, we will assess your eligibility based on current government guidance. If the role is not eligible and you cannot demonstrate your right to work, your conditional offer may be withdrawn.

✅ If You're Offered the Role - you will be agreeing to The Christie NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system. Please note, all communication regarding your application will be made via email, please ensure you check your junk/spam folders as emails are sometimes filtered there.

The Inter-Authority Transfer (IAT) process is a critical and beneficial component of ESR and will form part of the recruitment process. In the event that you are successful following interview your previous NHS employment data, if applicable will be transferred from your current / most recent employer.

Sponsorship Information - We are an approved sponsoring organisation. Applications will be considered from applicants requiring sponsorship alongside all other applications. Please be aware, not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible role and requirements on the government website.

No Smoking Policy - You should be aware the Trust operates a No Smoking Policy and therefore employees are not permitted to smoke at work.

Additional Information - We want to ensure that everyone who works at the Christie or uses our services is welcomed, valued and treated with dignity and respect. The Christie values diversity and is committed to ensuring equal opportunities for all and fair representation across the organisation at all levels. In support of these commitments, we particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and other ethnic minority people and people with disabilities for this post. Appointment will be only on merit.

We are committed to creating a balanced and diverse workforce. As such we welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. Together we will foster inclusion and tackle inequity and health inequalities in cancer care.

As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust is committed to the highest standards of ethical conduct and integrity in all our activities. We have a zero-tolerance approach to modern slavery in any of its forms, including slavery, servitude, forced or compulsory labour, and human trafficking. We are fully committed to acting ethically and with transparency in all our business dealings and relationships, and to implementing and enforcing effective systems and controls to ensure modern slavery is not taking place anywhere in our organisation or supply chains.