Head of Digital Datacentre

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you'll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the 'Supporting Documents' heading. So that you're even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you'll need to take time to read the 'Candidate Essentials Guide' that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how 'we care for you as you care for others'. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you'll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

We're looking forward to hearing from you!

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Masters or Equivalent Experience at senior level
• Relevant Microsoft qualifications
• VMWare Qualifications
• ITIL Experience/Qualification
• Evidence of Personal Develop

Desirable criteria

• ITIL Practioner
• Cloud Qualifcations
• Prince2 /Project management Qualification

Experience and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Evident experience in the management of enterprise scale IT services with strong levels of technical understanding across a broad range of applications and infrastructure, with at least 3 years' experience in managing datacentre support teams
• Substantial experience in direct, hands-on experience in managing and maintaining complex enterprise IT server environment.
• Significant experience in installation, configuration, upgrade, managing and monitoring server hardware / software
• Expert knowledge in Server Virtualisation, Storage Area Networks (SANs), Exchange / Email, Active Directory and Application virtualisation; SCCM.
• Significant experience in managing a core infrastructure environment that includes VMware, SAN, Citrix and Microsoft infrastructure
• Significant experience of working with third party suppliers where required to resolve problem.

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of Local Area Network / Wide Area Network concepts
• Previous experience in NHS IT environment
• Managing cloud service providers.

Skills

Essential criteria

• Able to convey complex information across multiple audiences, including senior and external partners. Communicate enthusiastically and motivate others by adapting your style to fit the audience.
• Ability to provide and receive highly complex, highly sensitive or highly contentious information, where developed persuasive, motivational, negotiation, training, empathic or re-assurance skills are required.
• Ability to make judgements on multi-stranded or complex IM&T problems which may have no precedent or where there are conflicting opinion
• Ability in making timely, difficult decisions to ensure project priorities meet critical business needs. (Make balanced risk decisions, taking full accountability)
• Ability to manage, motivate and MFT Digital Page 13 of 13 develop staff, leading diverse teams with ability to provide direction, understand resource capability and successfully get results working with direct reports, dotted line and/or internal or external resources.
• Ability to work effectively and efficiently under pressure and challenge established views and think differently to deliver the business goals.
• Ability to coach and mentor staff to support good collaborative team working. creating a recognised and respected talent pool

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Head of Digital Datacentre Services (PDF, 173.4KB)
• Functional Requirements for Head of Digital Datacentre (PDF, 1.0MB)
• Candidate Essential Guide Non Medical (PDF, 1.3MB)