ICT Technician - Portobello High School - EDN29093

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

ICT Technician
Portobello High School

Salary: £26,788 - £30,751
Hours: 36 per week

We are looking for an enthusiastic and organised person to join our team that provides ICT support services to our school. The post holder is responsible for providing ICT support to pupils in connection with the 1:1 iPad Empowered Learning project and an ICT service to school staff including basic fault finding and a first point of contact for staff who have problems with their devices / software.

Duties include supporting and promoting the use of ICT across the school including assisting with related projects, management of many administrative systems (including iPad management), development and upkeep of the school website, management and upkeep of hardware & software, troubleshooting ICT related problems across the school and liaising with external IT agencies.

The successful candidate will have excellent problem solving and communication skills and have experience of working as part of a team and can manage conflicting priorities to ensure needs of the service are met.

Experience and knowledge of supporting Microsoft Windows, Office 365 and Apple operating systems in an educational environment is desirable.

If you feel you would enjoy this rewarding role we would love to hear from you.  

For further information about the post please contact Greg McDowall, Headteacher Tel. No. or email admin@portobello.edin.sch.uk

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check.  Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

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Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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