Job overview
NHIS is offering an exciting opportunity for a Server and Storage Manager to lead our dedicated team of Server Engineers, Technicians, and Database Administrators. This role is central to ensuring our server estate and associated infrastructure remain robust, secure, and well‑maintained, supporting the digital services relied upon across our partner organisations.
The role includes leadership and management of specialist technical teams, fostering a high-performance culture focused on quality, continuous improvement, and excellent customer service. The post holder will also act as a senior technical advisor within NHIS, influencing organisational strategy and supporting cross-system collaboration within the wider Integrated Care System (ICS).
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Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Management experience in an ICT arena
- 10 years experience of working in an ICT customer service/technical operations
- Experience of managing contracts, which includes overall responsibility for the relationship as well as for individual projects or programmes to be delivered.
- Experience of system procurement
- Strategy development and implementation
- Experience in the development and management of service level agreements, commercial contracts and account management
- Experience managing complex and sensitive programmes and projects that require significant clinical and executive engagement for success
- Experience managing Capital and revenue budgets over £1m
- Researching, analysing and presenting information to Executives and Board members
- Successfully managing a diverse team
- Sound IT skills in word processing, spread-sheet, presentation and email software
- Experience of developing and monitoring business continuity and disaster recovery plans for critical IT systems
- Ability to communicate with a diverse group of professionals to very large groups
- Ability to motivate staff, colleagues and stakeholders to achieve the project outcomes
Desirable
- NHS / public sector experience
- Significant appreciation, knowledge and experience of good IT practice across the acute sector
- Experience of major system procurement
- Significant knowledge of Health Care IT
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to first degree level in an appropriate discipline
- In possession of the PRINCE2 Project Management Foundation Qualification
Desirable
- In possession of the PRINCE2 Project Management Practitioner Qualification
- Professionally recognised IM&T qualification and/or management qualification (Cisco, Microsoft etc)
- ITIL Service Management
Knowledge Requirements
Essential
- Ability to manage external customers and contractors
- Ability to establish and performance manage the delivery of excellent Server and Storage Services
- Highest level of analytical and problem solving skills
- Ability to deal with highly complex and sensitive issues
- Ability to negotiate, persuade and influence at all levels both within and across organisational boundaries
- Ability to make sound decisions on operational and service issues and developments based on knowledge and experience
- Excellent knowledge of Health Care IT
- Excellent knowledge and experience of Information Governance
- Ability to understand and promote best practice in IT
- Ability to write and present reports and proposals to senior managers and external agencies
- Facilitation
- Ability to anticipate impact of internal and external decisions on the IT service and make appropriate preparations
- Excellent knowledge of the IT security environment
- Excellent Communicator with good presentation skills able to adapt content and delivery to meet the needs of the audience
- Excellent problems solving skills coupled with the ability to concentrate in a busy support environment, decision making and facilitation skills
- Staff motivation skills
- Application of Risk Management within an IT environment
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Ability to work flexibly, outside normal office hours, in order to suit the needs of the user
- Ability to travel in order to attend meetings/deliver training at point of need
- Clean driving licence and use of own car.
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This advert is for Server and Storage Manager with Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in King's Mill Hospital. It is listed as a Band 8 Manager and corporate role. The advertised salary is £66,582 - £77,368 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 31 Aug 2026.
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