Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
ICT Technical Specialist - Security and Firewall Technologies
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ICT Technical Specialist
As an ICT Technical Specialist, you will safeguard the digital backbone of our organisation. Joining the Digital Infrastructure team, you will ensure our security and firewall services remain secure, resilient, and dependable—directly supporting the clinical and corporate services that keep patient care running safely.
Responsibilities
Working alongside senior colleagues, project teams, and external suppliers, you will apply your specialist knowledge to:
- Drive continuous service improvement
- Make effective use of Trust and NHS technology
- Deliver a responsive, customer-focused service
System Security & Operations
- Maintain the day-to-day operation, configuration, rule reviews, patching, access controls, capacity checks, and backup testing for assigned firewall and security systems.
- Manage incident resolution, problem investigation, change implementations, and service requests to maintain high system availability.
- Assist with technology refreshes, service transitions, supplier management, and decommissioning under senior direction.
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Technical Guidance & Collaboration
- Serve as a technical specialist, providing expert advice to the Digital Consultant, Head of Digital Infrastructure, project leads, and service owners.
- Identify and escalate material risks, key design decisions, and budget considerations to senior management in a timely manner.
- Communicate technical information clearly to non-technical colleagues, keeping patient care and customer service at the centre of your work.
Please note: Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
About Us
We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway and are rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.
Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.
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Our vision is simple: we are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Diversity and Inclusion
We are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.
Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that’s working well together.
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Ben Sladden
- Job title: Head of Digital Infrastructure
- Email address: ben.sladden@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07551137450
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