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Reporting to the IT Director, you will be supporting the IT team by providing a technical and comprehensive IT service across the group, enabling it to meet its targets and corporate objectives. As the Group IT Support Technician, you'll be responsible for maintaining the IT network, the servers, all client devices and security systems, including analysing, diagnosing and providing solutions to network, server, client devices and software problems. Collecting IT usage stats, making recommendations for improving the company IT systems and carrying out routine configuration and installations. THIS IS AN ON-SITE ROLE AND DOES NOT PROVIDE SPONSORSHIP. UK APPLICATIONS ONLY. Responsibilities Installing, configuring, maintaining software and hardware components of computer and network systems Installing, configuring and maintaining Servers Ensuring the security of client and server computers by installing and upgrading antivirus and firewall software Diagnosing and troubleshooting software and hardware issues Repairing and replacing damaged computer and network components Supporting people whenever they encounter challenges with computers and network devices Maintaining and updating technical documentation regularly Testing new hardware and software before group wide installation Confident with Microsoft Office To undertake project work as assigned by the Group IT Manager Liaise with 3rd party support About You Experience in an IT Support Technician role ideally, sound understanding of Active Directory, Firewall Configurations and Server Configurations. Attention to detail Excellent communication skills, both technically and non-technical. Qualifications Degree in Computer Science, IT, or similar in this field is desired but not essential.
Academics are looking for Design and Technology Cover Supervisors for supply opportunities within our partnership Stoke-on-Trent & Newcastle-under-Lyme secondary schools. Whether this is a long-term contract or more flexible week by week cover work that you are looking for, here at Academics we focus your job search around you and look to provide you with the type of roles that you are looking for. Our opportunities are great as they allow our Cover Supervisors to be flexible with the days that they wish to work and ideally, these roles could lead to more long-term and permanent roles in some of our schools. Cover Supervisors can be utilised in secondary schools to provide cover for a class when a teacher is not available. They have a subject specialism and they are employed on a flexible and day-to-day basis to ensure that a teacher can have time away from the classroom to carry out other duties (planning, assessment, or training days) or they may also be required to cover lessons for teachers who are away from school due to sickness, self-isolation or for any other absences. A Cover Supervisor is not responsible for planning or assessing a lesson as the original class teacher will set work for students to complete and the Cover Supervisor will manage behaviour and ensure that students remain on task. The benefits of working as a Design and Technology Cover Supervisor in a secondary school include: No lesson planning or marking! Along with your subject specialism, you can support a wide variety of subjects across the curriculum! Work alongside successful practising teachers to develop your education knowledge further! Flexible working - only want to work 3 days one week, but 5 days the next? Not a problem! As an Academics Design and Technology Cover Supervisor, you will: Hold a minimum Level 6 Qualification (Bachelor's Degree, Professional Graduate Certificate, BTEC Advanced Professional Diploma, Degree Apprenticeship, etc...) with a Design and/or Technology specialism. Be familiar with the National Curriculum and the D&T programmes of study. Have good classroom presence and behaviour management skills. Have a positive can do attitude to respond to busy schools. Have flexibility between Monday to Friday. Usual working hours are between 8.30am-3.30pm Hold a current Enhanced DBS that is registered with the Update Service or to be prepared to apply for a new Enhanced DBS with ourselves (cost applied). If you hold the relevant experience above and wish to be considered for our exciting cover opportunities please click 'APPLY NOW' below to submit your most up to date CV for review. Academics are dedicated to safer recruitment, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect every candidate to share this commitment. Assignments are subject to safeguarding and child protection screening in line with DfE polices, including right to work, employment references and enhanced DBS checks.