Job summary
Job Overview
Responsible for the EUC team and delivery of the service provided by all EUC team members including the planning, designing, configuration, deployment management, maintenance and 2nd line support of End User Computing devices to ensure availability and consistency of use for the end user. Providing input to strategic direction of EUC and leadership to a team of specialist EUC Engineers.
Responsible for overseeing and implementing build configurations for new laptops, desktops, mobile telephones and tablets, and for identifying and leading on the continuous improvement of the EUC team, policies, processes and End User Computing Manager will be responsible for infrastructure related systems pertaining to the management of software, end user devices, IP Telephony and printers in order to provide a robust, resilient and high performing team to meet the growing demands of the Trust.
The post holder requires excellent people management skills and for is responsible for leading and building a high performing team. The post holder is therefore required to be an expert in Digital Infrastructure and provide expert advice across a wide range of technologies and implement best practice Digital processes.
Main duties of the job
Main Duties & Responsibilities
1. Lead on the planning, design, implementation, operation and support of the EUC service in line with the Trust Digital Strategy
2. Lead team members through the provision of leadership, direction and motivation through to objective setting, regular performance reviews, training and development in line with appropriate policies, procedures, working practices and guidelines.
3. Develop and apply specialist knowledge in EUC technologies including operating systems and virtualisation, and act as the in-house expert with regard to implementing technical and high-performance solutions, making the environment secure, providing high resilience, best management practice and operational delivery.
4. Ensure all resources are deployed to maximise an efficient and effective delivery of support services to patients and users.
5. Responsibility over own staff for appraisals; sickness absence; disciplinary; grievance matters; recruitment and selection decisions; personal and career development; workload for areas within this remit and allocation of that workload/responsibilities.
6. Required to author high quality reports, technical documentation and presentations.
7. Create documents that take complex and/or sensitive information and present them in a manner accessible to Digital Management and various groups and committees.
About us
The RNOH is proud to be a diverse & inclusive organization, representing people from a wide group of ethnicities, gender identities, sexualities, disabilities, ages, religions and beliefs. The Trust is committed to ensuring that it is a place where our staff, patients and visitors feel included, represented and receive the support that best meets their needs
We are a fun team who work hard and support one another to advance our skill sets. The ideal candidate must have excellent communication and hands-on skills and with the ability to offer a flexible, responsible and positive approach to this challenging position.
We are looking for a committed and professional candidate with a track record of high levels of performance and exceptional management skills. Previous experience and exposure of working in a high demanding environment with excellent communication skills will be highly advantageous.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Leadership
8. Provide expert leadership and advice (direct and indirect) to colleagues and stakeholders on best practice for the related technologies deployed as part Trust programmes and associated projects.
9. Provide technical leadership in troubleshooting and resolving complex IT problems.
10. Responsible for overseeing the creation, quality and governance of technical and standards documentation to maintain a stable and consistent environment.
11. Develop appropriate reporting to track KPIs in the EUC environment, and ensure the team meet or exceed SLAs and customer expectations. Provide ad-hoc stats as required.
12. Act as an escalation point for support activities and high priority incidents, including resolving highly complex ICT issues where there is no precedent and where other leading opinions may conflict.
13. Identify and advise of service improvements and any potential cost savings.
14. Build effective working relationships with the other teams Digital, key stakeholders and partner organisations within the Trust.
15. Responsible for managing service delivery related projects, resource allocation for projects or other areas of ICT when requested.
16. Contribute to long-term ICT strategic technical to support the Trusts strategy.
17. Accountable for own professional actions, responding and communicating to manager as required.
18. Deputise for the Infrastructure Manager when required.
Service Improvement
19. Act as an ambassador for IT Services by developing and maintaining excellent working relationships with users across the organisation to deliver a high quality, standard IT culture to achieve local requirements and national targets.
20. Demonstrate clear leadership and contribution to ensure that the Digital Services delivered within the Trust reflect best practice with respect to organisational, NHS and legislative requirements and guidelines including IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), Data Protection Act, Information Standards, Information Security standards and compliance with NHS Information Governance.
21. Ensure all documentation relating to own area is complete and fit for purpose and all releases relating to hardware, software and documentation is controlled. Ensure that there is a proactive and comprehensive approach to risk management and be responsible for service continuity for own area and participate in the wider service continuity planning fro the trust and its applications.
22. Provide Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for allocated incidents and problems; instigating emergency action, when required, liaising with other Trust Managers, as appropriate.
23. Manage the business continuity planning for IT Infrastructure and provide supporting documentation for Trust BCP/DRP Plans.
24. Analyse, interpret and resolve highly complex IT issues, examples of this is an Infrastructure outage that impacts on both Clinical and non-Clinical care and managing the remedial workload to resolve the issue.
Project Management
25. Lead and manage all IT Infrastructure related projects. Using a structured methodology. Providing updates for IT Management and feeding into the relevant forums.
Digital Compliance & Governance
26. Ensure that all Trust governance policies and procedures are understood and are adhered by your team and are regularly audited.
27. Ensure that matters for escalation (risks, issues, changes, incidents, complaints) are raised and escalated following the correct governance. That remediation and mitigation plans are developed and implemented in a timely fashion and that a root cause analysis is undertaken.
28. Manage all staff within the Trusts policies and procedures.
29. Ensure that the principles of Information Security are understood and implemented.
30. Ensure any breaches in security or policies and procedures are logged and escalated following the appropriate policies and procedures.
31. Ensure that all complaints are promptly investigated, resolved, lessons learnt fed back to staff, and remedial action plans implemented.
32. Ensure the list of supported technology is kept up-to-date and shared appropriately.
33. Ensure that business continuity plans are kept updated and are reviewed regularly.
Key Result Areas
34. Meet or exceed agreed Digital Service Levels and Key Performance Indicators relating to customer support including:
35. System uptime
36. Issue resolution time
37. Number of failed change requests
38. Compliance /successful audits
39. Management of technology life cycle
40. Delivering the agreed services with budget
41. Ensuring staffing levels are maintained to deliver the service within areas
42. Ensuring projects are completed on time, on budget and to a high standard
Communication and Relationship Skills
43. Manages all end user computing and other tasks in accordance with Digital Policies and procedures, working with colleagues to agree priorities and ensure that no task is overlooked or misses SLA.
44. Provides regular updates to the Trust users and managers about the progress of on-going tasks.
45. Provides customers with accurate and frequent updates when SLAs are breached and reprioritises the work when necessary
46. Follows agreed procedures for all the tasks and responsibilities performed while on the job.
47. Helps team to improve its service through knowledge sharing.
48. Helps to provide a professional, customer-focused IT Support service to users throughout the Trust.
49. Responsible for handling and managing sensitive and/or confidential information in accordance with the Trust policies and guidance provided by Information Governance from time to time.
50. Communicates professionally, both written and verbal, with teams within Digital and with the suppliers.
Knowledge Training and Experience
51. Develops technical expertise commensurate with the requirements of the role and keep abreast of new technologies and share this knowledge with colleagues in a structured way
52. Working with the Digital End User Systems Manager, identifies own training and development needs and undertakes agreed training/education as required, supported by regular personal development planning.
Analytical & Judgmental Skills
53. Identifies any and all issues with current standard end user computing standard builds as they become apparent and ensures that these are either resolved, or logged in the teams task lists and/or service desk system.
54. Analyses complex information to determine the most appropriate issue resolutions in the shortest time.
55. Reports and logs security breaches identified during incident investigations using appropriate Trust procedures and actively promotes security best practices to the users; identifies and prioritises the resolution of security and confidentiality issues that become evident during the course of their work around the Trust
56. Provides detailed resolution, advice and guidance to users on Digital supported systems, products and services provided by Digital.
57. Provides Active Directory and e-mail account administration (for example: creation and modification of public folders, distribution lists, secure folders etc.; management of starters, leavers, transfers and honorary contracts and deletions of inactive user accounts) and ensure access control is managed in accordance with policy.
58. Provides password administration (including resets in accordance with procedures and Trust policy).
59. Provides 2nd line IT support services to help users recover from an incident as quickly as practicable, including initial diagnoses and provision of advice on known solutions where applicable.
60. Provides resolution of infrastructure incidents for desktops, printers, applications, software and peripherals.
61. For all calls that cannot be resolved internally, provides an effective interface between users and service providers, including external suppliers and provides timely updates to users.
62. References guidelines where they exist, uses judgement to set priority for resolution, monitor progress and uses escalation procedures for problems not progressing satisfactorily.
63. Actively builds support knowledgebase to enhance the skill set of the team, promote industry best practices and reduce the resolution times of incidents.
Planning and Organisational Skills
64. Prioritises own work within the team following the overall prioritisation of the Infrastructure Manager
65. Escalates incidents which cannot initially be resolved by 2nd line within a specified time to the relevant resolving teams.
66. Supports the Infrastructure Manager to maintain an up to date plan of all administrative, proactive and maintenance activities performed by the team that repeat at regular intervals.
67. When requested by the Infrastructure Manager, organises, plans, develops and delivers knowledge transfer training through workshops or other means to the Digital Service Desk.
68. Pro-actively monitor and seek to resolve all calls in the queue in a timely manner.
69. Provide IT procurement, advice and stock control to RNOH users in general
Physical Skills
70. Responds to service desk requests from customers via phone, e-mail, self-service or face to face contact.
71. Remains calm and focused even under pressure and maintains a pleasant demeanour and excellent interpersonal skills to welcome the visitors and deal with their enquiries.
72. Expertly coordinates the use of phone and keyboard simultaneously to get the job done.
73. Occasional travel to other 2 sites if necessary.
Responsibility for User Support
74. Provides advice to users on systems, products and services that are available to them.
75. Produces administrative and service performance reports for the activities of the EUC Team
76. Following agreed procedures, receives requests for assistance from users in a pleasant and professional manner. Maintains accurate log entries of requests with fault details and contact information. Manages all calls as per Digital policies and management guidance.
77. Provides a call triage function, updates the call with essential information and allocates to other Digital teams for resolution if necessary.
Person Specification
Knowledge, Training & Experience
Essential
78. Degree or equivalent qualifications or experience
79. Experience of Managing ICT teams, with good people management skills and able to undertake all HR-related activities
80. Demonstrable experience of managing projects and leading team members to deliver on time.
Desirable
81. Experience of supporting Microsoft Teams and Office 365
82. ITIL qualifications
83. Experience supporting NHS Mail
Communication & Relationship Skills
Essential
84. Demonstrable communication and relationship skills with ability to explain why these are necessary and how they are used.
85. Good standard of spoken and written English suitable to provide clear responses to stakeholders and colleagues.
Planning & Organisational Skills
Essential
86. Demonstrable ability to prioritise own work within the Team with guidance from the Digital End User Systems Manager.
87. Demonstrable ability to manage high workloads with frequent interruptions and changes to priority.
88. Good team player who can facilitate knowledge sharing and collaborative working in multi- disciplinary teams (including Service Desk, Desk Side, Network, etc)
Desirable
89. Demonstrate ability of leadership and team management skills.
Analytical & Judgment Skills
Essential
90. Ability to analyse complex information Ability to use judgment to provide appropriate incident resolutions or escalations to other support teams and at the same time maintaining customer satisfaction levels
Knowledge
Essential
91. Experience and knowledge of mobile device management, deployment and distribution
92. Strong awareness of service delivery concepts ( ITIL service management)
Emotional Effort
Essential
93. Ability to deal with sensitive issues, and customers who may be confrontational and/or upset
Responsibility for Research & Development
Essential
94. Demonstrable ability to recommend service improvements, throughout the team.