Places Leisure
First Line Triage Technology Support Agent
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More About Your Role
You will be the first point of contact for IT support across the business, helping colleagues resolve technical issues and keeping systems running smoothly. You'll triage incoming requests, aiming for first-time fixes where possible and escalating more complex issues to wider technology teams when needed.
- Investigate and troubleshoot hardware, software, and network issues, providing clear guidance to users both remotely and on-site where required.
- Manage and document incidents in the ticketing system, ensuring accurate prioritisation and timely resolution.
- Support the installation and maintenance of IT equipment.
- Contribute to knowledge base documentation.
- Work proactively to identify improvements that prevent recurring issues.
This role is based on site 3 days a week at The Gurney Office, Building Three, Watchmoor Park, Camberley, Surrey, GU15 3YL.
Essential Criteria
- Experience handling IT support requests, incidents, or service desk tickets in a structured environment, with the ability to troubleshoot issues and determine when escalation is required.
- Ability to diagnose and resolve hardware, software, Microsoft 365, Windows, end-user device, and basic network issues while identifying root causes.
- Experience using ticketing systems to log, categorise, prioritise, track, and manage incidents through to resolution.
- Proven ability to prioritise workload, manage multiple requests effectively, and deliver excellent customer service while communicating technical information to non-technical users.
- Demonstrable ability to follow processes relating to data protection, security, and compliance, whilst maintaining accurate documentation, knowledge articles, and technical procedures.
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- A proactive and organised individual who takes ownership of their work and is confident managing competing priorities.
- Enjoy troubleshooting issues, finding practical solutions, and using your initiative, whilst knowing when to escalate or seek support.
- Passionate about delivering excellent customer service and communicating effectively with colleagues of all technical abilities.
- Motivated to learn and continuously develop your technical knowledge, contribute to knowledge sharing, and support improvements to processes and documentation.
- Work well both independently and as part of a team, building positive relationships with colleagues, stakeholders, and external suppliers.
At Places for People, we are committed to providing a safe working environment, therefore a basic DBS check is required for this role.
Benefits
We are a large diverse and ambitious business, which will give you all the challenge you could wish for.
- Competitive salary with regular annual review
- Pension with matched contributions up to 7%
- Bonus scheme for colleagues at 2%
- 35 days holiday (including bank holiday) with option to buy or sell days
- Healthcare cashback plan for everyday medical costs - up to £500 savings per year
- Access to wellbeing support such as counselling and flu jabs
- Private GP and health support services available
- Access to a rewards platform with retail and lifestyle discounts
- Savings on groceries, travel, shopping and home products
- Ongoing training and development opportunities
- Access to professional qualifications and career progression
- Internal development programmes and learning support
- Recognition schemes such as Star Awards and Colleagues Awards
- Strong focus on inclusion, wellbeing and colleague engagement
- Free membership to Places Gyms
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If you meet the criteria and are ready to make the next step in your career then click apply. You will be redirected to our careers site where you can discover more about the role, read a full job description and apply directly to us.
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As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we offer a guaranteed interview to candidates who are disabled, neurodiverse, or have served in the Armed Forces, provided they meet the essential criteria for the role. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, please indicate this in your application. We are dedicated to creating a supportive and accessible recruitment process for all.
We are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application or interview experience, please let us know. We're happy to work with you to ensure you have the opportunity to perform at your best.
If you are a Places for People customer and you're looking for support with your application, please contact our skills and employment team on skillsemployment@placesforpeople.co.uk.
We understand the importance of a supportive and inclusive work culture so please talk to us at interview about flexibility you may need. We can't promise to give you exactly what you want, but we promise not to judge you for asking. For this role we are open to discussing the possibility of reduced hours, flexible start and finish times or compressed hours.
If you are a recruitment agency please note we operate a PSL and do not take cold calls
Safeguarding
At Places for People, safeguarding is everyone's responsibility. We are committed to creating safe communities for our customers and colleagues by protecting children, young people, and adults at risk from harm, abuse, and neglect.
We follow robust safeguarding policies and procedures, ensuring all employees, volunteers, and contractors uphold the highest standards of safeguarding and accountability. Our recruitment process includes pre-employment checks, including Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks where applicable, to promote a safe and secure working environment.
By joining Places for People, you are expected to contribute to our safeguarding culture, following our policies and reporting concerns to protect those in our communities.
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