# Assistant Support Technician

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** DIGI Application Support
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Administrative and IT
- **Grade:** Band 4
- **Salary:** £28,392 - £31,157 per annum per annum pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-01T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-18T14:40:52.011Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8238425
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8238425?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.uhs.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.

Please see below for detailed job description of the role.

This vacancy does not meet the Home Office threshold for sponsorship; therefore we are unable to accept applications from candidates who do not have the right to work in the UK.

### Main duties of the job

As part of our team, you will provide support to end users across the trust and our external partners and respond to issues via the service desk portal, phone, and face to face visits. This is part of the 2nd line support team responding to user issues, requests and queries for our clinical and non-clinical systems.

We are looking for a Assistant Support Technician.

You will work with a variety of teams across UHS Digital but also closely with hospital administration and clinical teams to ensure the best care for our patients.

The team work between 8am and 6pm with team members working either 8 - 4 or 10 - 6 shifts between Monday - Friday and the successful candidate will be consulted on what fits both them and the needs of the service.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

In this role, your key responsibilities will include:

Diagnose, troubleshoot, and provide user support for digital systems

Responsible for core applications and for providing second line support for these at a specialist level, including configuration changes and data corrections

Respond in accordance with service level agreements to all calls forwarded by the Trust ITService Desk.

Ensure unplanned systems outages or unavailability is communicated to stakeholders providing regular updates.

Work in partnership with all other support teams to form good working links across thedepartment.

Undertake any other task consistent with grade and experience as determined by line manager or senior manager within UHS Digital.

For an overview of the position, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification document. This includes a detailed breakdown of the key responsibilities, role expectations, and the qualifications we are looking for.

## Person Specification

### Trust Values and Behaviours

**Essential**

- Patients First
- Always Improving
- Working Together

### Qualifications, knowledge and experience

**Essential**

- Level 4 NVQ or Diploma or equivalent experience
- Understanding of what it means to deliver good customer service
- Good all-round understanding of information technology
- Proficient MS Office user (up to and including M365)
- Experience with troubleshooting and solving problems
- Knowledge and understanding of the importance of data protection
- Experience of collaborating or working in a team

**Desirable**

- Previous experience as a user of complex digital systems
- Recognised IT qualification
- Knowledge of hospital patient flows
- Relevant experience of database administration / maintenance
- Basic knowledge of SQL
- Basic knowledge of any programming language(s)
- Previous experience of working in an IT Support service

## Documents

- [job description and person spec (docx, 140.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10549051)

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