IT Service Desk Analyst

Job summary

This post is only available to internal staff members.

An opportunity has arisen to join our IT Service Desk Team as a Band 4 IT Service Desk Analyst. You will provide an effective, responsive, user-friendly, and customer focused Service Desk technical support to all IT users within the Trust. You will also assist the Deputy Service Desk Manager with routine office functions and allocate help-desk calls requiring further assistance to the appropriate IT Service Desk Engineer, ensuring you provide the engineer with all available and relevant information on the problem. You will also need to attend IT related issues on site when required.

An interview date is yet to be confirmed.

Main duties of the job

• To respond promptly, efficiently and courteously to all user-requests for technical advice and assistance.
• To ensure that all calls are properly documented in the Service Desk management systems.
• To provide "talk-through" solutions by telephone to users, where appropriate.
• To rectify basic user faults at first contact including renewing account passwords
• To follow-up on calls where there is no evidence of satisfactory progress to resolution, to seek explanations for any delay and to report all delays to the Technical Operations Manager.
• To ensure that the departmental laptop and projector are properly booked out and returned in a working manner.
• Works towards set KPI's, tasks and objectives.
• In the event of sickness or annual leave, provide adhoc cover for the IT Service Desk Engineers.
• To undertake and provide as and when required basic management reports and surveys.
• To undertake and complete requests for shared area access.
• Escalate any trends or any impacts on services to the Technical Operations Manager.
• To liaise with external application support providers and other NHS Trusts ie. East & North Herts, Royal Free and West Herts.
• To be able to communicate face-to-face with staff internally and externally.
• To be able to go out on site to assist users with any IT related issues/concerns.

About us

The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute hospital in the London Borough of Hillingdon and offers a wide range of services, including accident and emergency, inpatient care, day surgery, outpatient clinics, and maternity services. The Trust's services at Mount Vernon Hospital include routine day surgery, delivered at a modern treatment centre, a minor injuries unit, and outpatient clinics.

The safety and well-being of our patients and staff is paramount and we are making urgent improvements to address this - particularly in infection prevention and control. We are making progress by working in partnership with local GPs, charities, community services, academic partners, our local authority, neighbouring hospitals, and the wider North West London Integrated care system, and ensuring that we listen and work in partnership with our local population. We are focused on ensuring that our hospitals provide high quality, safe, and compassionate care, while we drive forward with the building of the new Hillingdon Hospital.

We have over 3,500 members of staff that are proud to care for nearly half a million people, with a vision to be an outstanding provider of healthcare through leading health and academic partnerships, transforming services, to provide the best care where needed.