IT Operations Manager
On site
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Full Time
12-03-2025
Job Specifications
Join Our Team as an IT Operations Manager!
Are you ready to take on a pivotal role in our dynamic IT Operations team? As our IT Operations Manager, you’ll be at the heart of ensuring the smooth and efficient running of the Trust’s server and desktop infrastructure.
Your Key Responsibilities Will Include
Proactive and Reactive Management: Oversee and manage our server and desktop infrastructure, ensuring everything runs seamlessly.
Problem Management: Collaborate with specialist areas to tackle issues head-on, ensuring SLA targets are consistently met.
Technical Escalation Point: Act as the go-to expert for resolving technical incidents involving servers, networks, telephony, and desktops.
Senior IT Support: Provide top-tier IT support and break-fix services to the Trust and our valued stakeholder organisations.
If you’re passionate about IT and thrive in a fast-paced environment, we want to hear from you!
As IT Operations Manager you'll oversee the Technical Services Team, ensuring secure and consistent delivery of server, network, and telephony services. They will manage both proactive and reactive aspects of the server and desktop infrastructure, support problem management, and act as the escalation point for technical incidents. The role includes providing senior IT support, working weekends and unsociable hours when necessary, and participating in the on-call rota.
As one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions. In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state of the art facility.
Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children’s medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world’s leaders in children’s healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of children’s specialists. Alongside this is our Innovation Hub, a dedicated space where clinicians and industries can come together to create new products and technologies.
We know that a children’s hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learn and grow. At Alder Hey we are here to look after a child and their family and that includes mums, dads, brothers and sisters.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Paul Ingham Job title: Head of IT Operations Email address: paul.ingham@alderhey.nhs.uk
About the Company
Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust is one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals, treating more than 450,000 children and young people every year. It is one of only four stand-alone paediatric trusts in the UK and is staffed by more than 4,000 employees. We offer 20 specialist services including being the designated national centre for head and face surgery and a Centre of Excellence for children with cancer, heart, spinal and brain disease. It is a teaching hospital and trains 550 medical and 400 nursi... Know more
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