Senior IT Engineer

at  LeighAcademiesTrust

Are you a skilled IT professional looking to take the next step in your career? Leigh Academies Trust is seeking a Senior IT Engineer to provide crucial day-to-day support for two of our schools. This role is perfect for someone who thrives in an independent work environment, with the responsibility of managing the IT needs across multiple sites.
As a Senior IT Engineer, you will be responsible for responding to support tickets via our Halo Helpdesk system, ensuring all requests are addressed within SLA deadlines. Your expertise will be vital in supporting and maintaining all local IT hardware and software packages, from desktop computers to AV hardware. You’ll also be involved in the installation and repair of Windows systems, as well as managing networking software to diagnose and solve any issues that arise.
In addition to these core duties, you will assist in a variety of technical tasks related to IT network and desktop services, ensuring that all systems operate smoothly and efficiently.
This role is primarily based at The Leigh Academy Tonbridge, but you will also provide support at Snowfields Academy in Cranbrook. Therefore, the ability to travel between these sites is essential. Your independence and ability to collaborate with the wider IT team will be crucial to your success in this position.
If you’re ready to make a significant impact within a supportive and dynamic educational environment, we encourage you to apply and join our team at Leigh Academies Trust.
Being part of Leigh Academies Trust: As of 1st September 2024, our Trust comprises 33 geographically organised academies (17 secondaries, 14 primaries and 2 special) educating more than 24,000 students and employing 4,000 talented staff. Currently, 14 of our academies are considered to be “Outstanding” which is nearly 50% of those which have been inspected whilst part of the Trust. The Trust is establishing four ‘clusters’ of academies: North Kent; Central Kent; South East London; Medway. In addition, the Trust is responsible for one of the region’s biggest initial teaching training organisations, a large teaching school hub and is an accredited apprenticeship provider. Our future plans are found in our Vision 2030 document available on our website.
As part of Leigh Academies Trust, you will have ample opportunity to collaborate with your peers both within the academy and across the whole Trust. This is an important part of our vision as we know through experience that we perform better when we work together. You are supported to undertake regular self-development to continue your professional development and hopefully progress further within the organisation.
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Our commitment to safeguarding: Leigh Academies Trust and all of our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair, robust and consistent recruitment process across all academies and business units which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates - you can read more about this in our Recruitment Guidance. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
Our commitment to equality and diversity: As a Trust, we are passionate about diversity and recognise that as individuals, we all bring something unique to the role regardless of any protected characteristics which is why we treat all of our people equally, without compromise. We are committed to providing equality and fairness throughout our recruitment and employment practices and not discriminating on any grounds.

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