Senior IT Technician

Working Days: Full-time, 36 hours per week, 52 weeks per year.

09:00 - 16:45 (4 days per week); 09:00 - 16.30 (1 day per week). The working pattern will be confirmed with the successful candidate.

30 minutes unpaid lunch break each day.

Start date: As soon as possible

Salary: Starting at NJC scale SO2, point 26 (FTE £37,443 per annum)

Rising with annual increments to  NJC scale SO2, point 28 (FTE £39,264 per  annum)

Annual leave entitlement: 29 days per year plus 8 bank holidays

Location: The senior IT technician will be based at Ruislip High School. Whilst this will be their primary location of work, the successful candidate will have a mobility clause which means that they will also be required to work at any of the Trust’s schools on occasion.

Vanguard Learning Trust wishes to employ an enthusiastic and proactive senior IT technician who will be a key member of the Trust’s support staff team. Our new senior IT technician will embrace our Trust’s vision to engender collective responsibility across the Trust and will support our schools and the central team with this ambition. Our new senior IT technician must have an understanding of Google for Education applications while a background in IT as well experience of working in a school environment are highly desirable. The successful candidate will be based at Ruislip High School. It is important to state, however, that they will have a mobility clause which means that they will also be required to work at any of the Trust’s schools on occasion. 

The Trust aims to continue its expansion of schools over the next five years. The newly centralised IT function will play a key role in ensuring that the Trust has the capacity for expansion. Our new senior IT technician will become part of that team, focussing on the interoperability of software and  automation of data whilst acting as a first line of defence in our cyber security strategy.  

Why work for Vanguard Learning Trust?

Vanguard Learning Trust is a cross-phase Trust in the London Borough of Hillingdon. Our Trust currently has five schools: Field End Junior School, Hermitage Primary School, Ruislip High School, Ryefield Primary School and Vyners School. Oak Farm Primary School is an associate member of the Trust. The successful candidate will be provided with professional development opportunities and will play a key role in ensuring that our Trust is an employer of choice.  

An application form can be downloaded from the Vanguard Learning Trust website (click here) where all information about this post can be obtained.

Applications should be returned to:recruitment@vlt.org.uk 

In compliance with safer recruitment guidelines, CVs will not be accepted. 

CLOSING DATE: 10.00am on Monday 18th November 2024

INTERVIEWS: Friday 22nd November 2024

Early applications will be considered and may be offered an interview before the closing date.

Vanguard Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its pupils and expects all those working at the Trust to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974

Vanguard Learning Trust is an equal opportunities employer.

Under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, the Public Sector fluency duty requires state funded schools to ensure candidates for their customer facing roles have the necessary standard of spoken English.