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Are you passionate about the digital space? Do you want to help transform health and care services through innovative digital support? If your answer is YES, then we want to talk to you!
We are looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated individual to join our team as a Senior Network and Telecommunications Engineer within the Technical Operations Strategic Business Unit (SBU) at NHIS. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a team that is working to future-proof the (Company Name - Subscribers only) by delivering vital digital services and supporting the transformation of healthcare through technology.
As part of the Technical SBU, your primary goal will be to support the delivery of Service Level Agreements, design and implement technical solutions, and work collaboratively with our Partners and Customers to align with clinical and IT strategies. You will play a key role in maintaining and enhancing the IT infrastructure at all levels, from providing essential technical support to users, to managing upgrades and installations within our Datacentres.
You’ll be supporting the Network and Telecoms infrastructure across Kings Mill Hospital, GP practices, and Community Health services around Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. We are committed to ensuring that our customers experience minimal disruption and receive high-quality service that ensures the smooth continuation of care.If you are ready to bring your passion for digital transformation and healthcare to the next level, apply today to join our team.
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
About us
We are an award-winning (Company Name - Subscribers only) Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National (Company Name - Subscribers only) Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ (Company Name - Subscribers only)-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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Details
Date posted
12 August 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£49,387 to £56,515 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
214-DHIS-8220358
Job locations
Ilkeston Community Hospital
Heanor Road
Ilkeston
DE7 8LN
United Kingdom
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification. Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements
Essential
- The ability to work on own initiative
- Project management skills
- Substantial Experience solving issues at a senior level
Desirable
- Ability to supervise staff
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree, or HNC/D, or BTEC or certification in relevant field
- Microsoft Office Applications
- Cisco switching & routing
- Cisco Firewalls
- Cisco enterprise wireless
- IP subnetting and / or
- Mitel MCD / vMCD / MiVoice Business
- SIP & call routing
- High & Low Level design documentation
- Nexus & Datacentre networking
- Mitel Contact Centre Manager / MiContact Centre
- Cloud Technologies
Desirable
- Certification in relevant field (IE Cisco / Mitel)
- PRINCE 2 Foundation
- Membership of a professional body
- Call recording software
Experience
Essential
- At least 5 years previous technical experience within IT at a senior technical level.
- Have managed Staff
- Experience of managing multiple project work streams and working as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Previous experience of presenting written reports and communicating verbally to a wide ranging audience
- Proven ability to work to tight deadlines and within a customer driven team
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Ability to work flexibly, outside normal office hours, in order to suit the needs of the users.
- The post holder may be required to form part of the on-call rota.
- Ability to travel in order to deliver training at point of need.
- Clean driving licence and use of own car.
Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements
Essential
- The ability to work on own initiative
- Project management skills
- Substantial Experience solving issues at a senior level
Desirable
- Ability to supervise staff
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree, or HNC/D, or BTEC or certification in relevant field
- Microsoft Office Applications
- Cisco switching & routing
- Cisco Firewalls
- Cisco enterprise wireless
- IP subnetting and / or
- Mitel MCD / vMCD / MiVoice Business
- SIP & call routing
- High & Low Level design documentation
- Nexus & Datacentre networking
- Mitel Contact Centre Manager / MiContact Centre
- Cloud Technologies
Desirable
- Certification in relevant field (IE Cisco / Mitel)
- PRINCE 2 Foundation
- Membership of a professional body
- Call recording software
Experience
Essential
- At least 5 years previous technical experience within IT at a senior technical level.
- Have managed Staff
- Experience of managing multiple project work streams and working as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Previous experience of presenting written reports and communicating verbally to a wide ranging audience
- Proven ability to work to tight deadlines and within a customer driven team
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Ability to work flexibly, outside normal office hours, in order to suit the needs of the users.
- The post holder may be required to form part of the on-call rota.
- Ability to travel in order to deliver training at point of need.
- Clean driving licence and use of own car.