IT Network Team Lead

IT Network Team Lead
Head Office - London
37.5 Hours - Permanent
Salary: Up to £65,000 per year (depending on level of experience, training and qualification)

Circle Health Group is Britain's leading provider of independent healthcare with a nationwide network of hospitals & clinics, performing more complex surgery than any other private healthcare provider in the country.

We have an opportunity for aIT Network Team Lead to join their team of staff in theGroup IT department.

This is a Full time role for 37.5 hours a week.

Duties of this role include:

• Deliver excellent, cost effective IT Network services throughout all Circle Health Group locations nationwide across both the clinical and corporate functions. Manage the IT Networks team, 3rd party providers, contracted resources and managed service partners ensuring the operational stability, availability and security of the IT Network services on a day-to-day basis.
• Oversee the network environments; monitoring performance, ensuring system availability, reliability and providing input into capacity planning to handle projected growth
• Ensure services are delivered within agreed timescales and in accordance with SLA's
• Ensure the highest levels of support are provided to Circle Health Group's central infrastructure and other business critical Systems
• Lead the IT Service Delivery elements of major networks projects and change programmes
• Design, develop and implement IT networks estate and services
• Direct the installation, support and maintenance of production systems to completion
• Overall ownership of Network related incidents and problems
• Actively participate in escalations to and from the wider IT Service Delivery team as required
• Take ownership of major incidents ensuring coordination or resolving parties, effective communication to stakeholders and post incident review
• Function as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) within the IT Networks team and wider IT department

Applicants should meet the following criteria:

• Excellent (7+ years) experience within a medium/large organisation ( £500M+ annual revenue, 6,000+ end-users, 40+ different locations)
• Excellent (7+ years) experience in Network technologies such as: LAN Switching, WAN/LAN Routing and L3 technologies, Firewalls, Load Balancing and traffic prioritising technologies, VPN and Remote Access Technologies, Network management platform technologies, WLAN, network capacity planning and management including detailed sub/supernetting
• Significant (5+ years) experience of enterprise architecture, network design and documentation including designing solutions derived from standards and templates
• Some (1+ years) experience in supplier relationship management, commercial and budgetary management.

Salary & Benefits

Circle Health Group is committed to offering competitive starting salaries and access to a wide range of employee benefits, including:

• 25 days holiday per year + bank holidays, increasing to 30 days with service
• Private Healthcare Scheme for treatment at our hospitals, covering pre-existing medical conditions
• Friends & Family Hospital Discounts
• Family Friendly policies, including enhanced Maternity, Paternity & Adoption pay
• Non-contributory life insurance
• Staff engagement hub with access to discounts and extensive rewards and voluntary benefits
• Access to resources, tools and services to support your wellbeing
• Employee recognition programmes
• Industry leading training and development opportunities

and much more!

Circle Health Group is committed to creating a diverse workforce offering inclusive opportunities for all our colleagues. Our definition of diversity goes beyond the established characteristics protected by the Equality Act, as we strive to attract candidates with diverse experiences, backgrounds, identities or expressions, skills, work styles and more.

We're passionate about creating an environment where our people can thrive, grow and develop professionally and personally. Our principles and values guide our colleagues to be selfless, compassionate, committed, collaborative, brave, agile, tenacious and creative and are at the core of our purpose and culture.