Our Current Vacancies are in the following locations
* Newbury
* Oxford
* Reading
* Swindon
* Thatcham
About Us
Prior's Court was set up by Founding Patron Dame Stephanie Shirley, whose vision of a centre of excellence for children with autism became reality with the opening of Prior's Court School in 1999. We have since grown to support around 90 young people with autism aged between 5-25 years with the opening of Prior's Court Young Adult Provision in 2011. Since opening, our support team has grown from around 20 to 500 and we have built a reputation as a leading edge educational, vocational, and residential facility for young people with autism. We are situated on 50 acres of parkland with various facilities including accommodation for our young people, a school with a wide range of facilities and offices.
Reporting to the Director of Finance, the Head of IT & Systems will be responsible for:
* Network, Infrastructure and Security of our IT platform, resolving technical issues, planning future investment, and ensuring ongoing support for the organisation's goals.
* Management of the Data Analyst team to deliver accurate and relevant data to the organisation supporting the Quality Assurance requirements and ongoing system and process improvements.
* Ensuring the ongoing development and maintenance of our Prior Insight platform in partnership with our provider. Linking with the organisation to identify priorities for development and continuing to ensure data integrity and development of the platform to best meet the needs of the organisation.
* Assist with the development of the long-term technology strategy for the organisation, considering its needs and ambitions for the future.
* Salary: Up to £55,000 per annum (dependent on qualifications and experience)
* Hours: 37 hours per week, 52 weeks per year
* Contract Type: Permanent
Main responsibilities:
* Management of the systems team including supporting delivery of system developments, reporting and solution implementation.
* To provide maintenance of physical networks, hardware and software as appropriate to training provided and competence gained, including Wifi, phones, mobile devices.
* Advise on strategic IT policy and be an active contributor in developing the IT infrastructure.
* Liaise with 3rd party providers as required for software and hardware requirements, e.g. Managed Service Provider (Net team), Internet service provider (LGfL).
* Disaster recovery point of contact for IT and systems issues.
* Manage IT budget: track, approve and monitor all licence costs across the organisation as well as CAPEX investment in IT infrastructure and equipment. Manage the ordering of equipment materials and consumables as required. Managing stock levels and obsolescence of equipment.
* GDPR: ensure adherence to legal requirements and support the implementation of a robust process to ensure compliance, including reviewing and updating IT policy.
* Manage both data analysts ensuring accurate and consistent reporting.
* Ensure quality assurance and regulatory requirements of the industry (CARE AND EDU services) supported via the provision of access to timely and accurate data and reporting.
* Ongoing development of dashboards is maintained to support any change to requirements or focus of the organisation.
* Explore and support the provision of tools across the organisation to enable optimisation and efficiency of reporting, monitoring/capturing of data e.g. business planning, risk register etc.
Prior Insight (bespoke care management system)
Prior Insight is a unique platform which provides our case management system, holding all care and academic records of young people, including incident and complaint management. It is also our central HR database and holds all staff rotas. The system is a customisation of a platform, Zone Standard, which has been developed in partnership with, and operated under license from, the developers, Actualised Living. We are continuously developing and enhancing the system to meet organisational requirements.
Your responsibilities include:
* Managing the development and ongoing support of the platform.
* Work with platform provider to ensure delivery of developments as required to support the organisation.
* Implement process for change management delivery by the team to support the overall requirements of the organisation.
* Work with managers across the organisation to understand priorities and ensure processes support the system changes.
* Manage relationship with Actualised Living, as our partners, licensor, and data processor.
Person specification:
* Relevant experience in a similar IT managerial role.
* Significant experience in defining and delivering IT strategies and processes.
* Experience in people management and supporting the development of others.
* Solid technical background with an ability to give instructions to a non-technical audience.
* IT Infrastructure Library knowledge or qualification.
* An understanding of Virtual solutions Hyper and/or VMware 6.x, including vSphere.
* An understanding of networks and telephony systems terminologies, e.g. LAN, WAN, SAN & firewalls.
* Hands-on experience with help desk and remote control software.
* GDPR & IT Security knowledge required.
Desirable criteria:
* Experience of a health & social care platform management and/or experience in an education environment.
* Degree (or equivalent) in Computing/IT or a related field or have equivalent IT industry experience.
* Understanding of IP networks traffic, firewalls, routing etc.
We recognise our employees are the key to helping us achieve our ambitions and deserve to be valued and supported. That’s why we offer a superb package of benefits to our staff. You will also be able to access our wide range of staff benefits:
Benefits
* A pension scheme, with a contribution of 5% of your basic salary by Prior's Court and 3% or more by you.
* 33 days of holiday per year, inclusive of Bank Holidays.
* A relocation assistance scheme for eligible new employees.
* Accommodation for eligible employees looking to relocate.
* 24-hour employee assistance programme for advice, information and support.
* Life Assurance scheme.
* Access to our Flexible Employee Benefits and Discount Platform.
* Self-funded Health Cash Plan.
* Employee Recognition Schemes, including an annual staff awards programme.
* Long Service Awards.
* Refer-a-friend scheme with financial rewards.
* Free on-site flu vaccinations.
* Cycle to Work Scheme.
* Electric Car Scheme.
* Employee Suggestion Scheme.
* Employee Health and Wellbeing programme.
All positions at the school are subject to a satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check, references and receipt of the appropriate Right to Work documents. Prior’s Court Foundation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Prior’s Court is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and we actively seek and embrace differences in thinking, experience, ethnicity, age, gender, faith, personalities and styles. The different skills, experiences and backgrounds our employees bring to their roles create a workforce as diverse and individual as the young people we support and makes Prior’s Court a special place to work. We strive for an inclusive environment where employees feel safe, engaged and supported to make a difference.
As we move into the festive period, please allow additional time for your application to be reviewed.
The closing date for this role is 10/01/25.
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