Job summary
NHS Band 5 Salary: £32,073 - £39,043 per annum
Hours Per Week: Full time, 37.5
Contract Type: Temporary for 23 months
The purpose of the Network Engineer in the IWT-PHU Group hospital setting is to ensure the stability, security, and efficiency of the hospital's network infrastructure, which is crucial for supporting healthcare services and administrative operations. This role involves implementing and managing robust network components that facilitate seamless communication and data & telephony exchange across various departments.
Main duties of the job
Job summary
- To provide project support for the IWT-PHU Group hospitals network infrastructure, configuring and installing switches, UPSs and related hardware in-line with IT standards.
- Provide an operational support, maintaining the integrity and availability network & telephony hardware, responding to switch failures and assisting with port patching.
- To maintain a secure environment and provide professional assistance in the development of the infrastructure.
- Contribute to the IT Departments on-call rota and if required, maintain required skills, experience and resource levels allowing for hospital digital 24/7 services.
About us
Working as a partnership, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this.
The single corporate service is delivered across both organisations. You may be based at either IWT or PHU and individuals may be required to undertake business travel between sites. For leaders managing staff across multi-site locations, you will need to be visible and provide in person leadership. The arrangements and frequency will be agreed locally.
The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.
We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veterans' status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
Details
- Date posted: 30 June 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 5
- Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year
- Contract: Fixed term
- Duration: 23 months
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Reference number: REF2341E
- Job locations: Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust Corporate Hub, Block 4000, Lakeside North Harbour, Cosham, Portsmouth, PO6 3EN, United Kingdom, St Mary's Hospital, Parkhurst Road, NEWPORT, Isle Of Wight, PO30 5TG, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
Specific Core Functions
Project and Equipment Installations within the Group hospital model. Work in a team to help design and complete full switch cabinet upgrades, including:
- Assisting in the design and producing kit lists for procurement.
- Identifying gaps in standards and working with teams across the Trust to remediate issues.
- Liaise with customers to arrange mutually convenient installation of equipment in line with current change control management procedures, some out of hours work may be required
- Test and Build Switches, UPSs and ATS hardware, in-line with Trust standards and in preparation for deployment.
- Complete on-site planning and build/install cable looms.
- Complete ward walkarounds, working with clinical teams to identify high risk equipment and support migration with clinical requirements.
- Complete switch migration, adhering to cabinet and cabling standards.
- Decommission hardware following the Trusts disposal policy.
- Update and maintain the Trusts asset register for related hardware.
- Update and manage deployment of monitoring and alerting configuration.
- Assist in the development of kit lists for procurement and checking delivered hardware, software and licences match the original order.
- Assist with the deployment and technical support of the Trusts Access Points, working with third party suppliers, some occasional ladder use may be required.
- Complete WiFi surveys using the departments test equipment.
- Provide hands deployment of configuration changes to VTP, QOS, VLANs and other technical requirements across the Trust.
Provide support to the Operational Teams diagnosing and remediating technical problems with network hardware and supporting patching across the Trust.
For further details please refer to enclosed job description.
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP).
- Experience in supporting Check Point and Cisco ASA firewalls.
- Experience of Microsoft based domains, operating systems and office software.
- Experience of Cisco, HPe and HPe Aruba Switching Technologies.
Desirable
- Experience with Solarwinds Orion SNMP Monitoring.
- Experience of VMware and Citrix virtualized networking.
- In depth knowledge of virtualized Windows environments.
- Excellent understanding of Cisco Nexus technology. Storage technologies and Storage Area Networks.
Qualifications
Essential
- HNC or relevant experience in a complex enterprise IT environment.
- Experience providing IT technical support for networked environments.
- Experience in supporting Cisco Catalyst technologies.
- Experience in working with single-mode and multimode fibre, CAT5, CAT5e and CAT6.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
Desirable
- Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP).
- Experience in supporting Check Point and Cisco ASA firewalls.
- Experience of Microsoft based domains, operating systems and office software.
- Experience of Cisco, HPe and HPe Aruba Switching Technologies.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and experience of supporting PC hardware and peripherals.
- Technical knowledge of network protocols including TCP/IP.
Desirable
- Knowledge of Netscaler and Checkpoint hardware and software.
- Knowledge of issues in acute, community and mental health sectors.
- Knowledge in Microsoft Visio and creating networking diagrams.
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