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Senior Digital Support Technician - Shaw Education Trust
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Senior Digital Support Technician
Salary: G8 SCP 28- 33 £33,700 - £38,220 – Pay Award Pending
Working hours: 37 hours a week, full time, all year
Start date: ASAP
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: This is a hybrid role, combining HO working with travel - A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle, as regular travel between school sites is essential.
About the Role
Shaw Education Trust is seeking a Senior Digital Support Technician to join our Digital Services team, providing expert technical leadership across our Staffordshire schools. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering reliable, secure and innovative digital services that support teaching, learning and operational excellence.
Working closely with school-based IT teams and the Regional Heads of Digital Services, you'll provide advanced technical expertise, mentor colleagues and help shape the continuous improvement of our digital infrastructure. You'll also ensure our schools remain compliant with security and IT standards while building strong relationships with staff across the Trust.
Key Responsibilities
- Acting as the senior technical escalation point, resolving complex hardware, software and network issues that cannot be resolved by school-based IT technicians.
- Supporting a portfolio of Staffordshire schools, providing expert technical guidance and building strong relationships with school leaders and staff.
- Conducting IT compliance surveys, digital assurance reviews and technical audits to ensure systems remain secure, compliant and fit for purpose.
- Mentoring and supporting frontline IT technicians, sharing knowledge and developing technical capability across the team.
- Assisting with the planning, implementation and maintenance of network infrastructure, end-user devices and digital services across multiple school sites.
- Supporting the continuous improvement of ICT systems, ensuring services remain reliable, secure and aligned with the needs of our schools.
Requirements
We are looking for someone who has proven experience in a senior IT support or infrastructure role, ideally within an education environment, strong troubleshooting skills across Microsoft technologies, hardware, software, networking and cloud-based systems.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical information clearly to both technical and non-technical colleagues
- Collaborative approach, with experience mentoring or supporting other technicians
If you're passionate about technology, enjoy leading by example and want to make a real difference across a growing Multi-Academy Trust, we'd love to hear from you.
Application Process
All candidates are required to provide a supporting statement on the formal application forms which states clearly your reasons for applying, skills and experience for this position.
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About Shaw Education Trust
At Shaw Education Trust, we believe every role has the power to transform a life. Whether you’re supporting behind the scenes, inspiring in the classroom, or leading with vision, you will be part of something truly meaningful.
Our values—opportunity, integrity, community, and equity—guide everything we do. Our vision is “Opening doors to the world through the power of learning.” We bring this to life through our mission: working together to inspire communities where every school is valued, every voice matters, and every learner thrives.
We are a dynamic and growing family of primary, secondary, and special schools, proudly serving communities from Birmingham to Bury.
Our people are our greatest asset, and we are deeply committed to their development through high-quality training, apprenticeships, talent development programmes, and research opportunities, we empower our staff to thrive as skilled, confident professionals. We champion wellbeing, value every voice, and foster a culture where you feel supported, motivated, and inspired to make a real difference.
You will join a collaborative network of schools where shared expertise and a strong professional community drive success. Every academy within our Trust has an equal voice, and every colleague plays a vital role in shaping tailored learning experiences that raise aspirations and build brighter futures.
If you have the passion, dedication, and drive to help shape lives and create futures filled with promise, we would love you to join our team.
Together, let’s make the remarkable happen.
We believe every child has the potential to be extraordinary.
Employee Benefits
Shaw Education Trust offer the following employee benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:
- An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
- Support Staff only based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
- Access to Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan: Enjoy health services designed to support your well-being.
- Free DiscountForTeachers Scheme for all staff (Support and Teaching), Exclusive discounts to save money with a wide selection of discounts and exclusive offers from hundreds of the biggest brands.
- Free Eye Tests
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.
Colleagues within the Trust benefit from:
- Access to a full range of courses both in-house and professionally accredited. These courses include a variety of the National Professional Qualifications and the Early Carer Teacher Programme delivered by Shaw Education Trust as a delivery partner for Ambition Institute.
- Experienced leadership and subject-specific support.
- Guidance from former HMIs and serving Ofsted Inspectors within the Trust.
- Access to the Trust’s Institute of Education and SCITT.
- Opportunities to work with different schools within the Trust as a Professional Advocate.
- Participating in peer reviews.
- Access to a suite of online courses.
- Placement projects within our family of schools.
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Safer Recruitment & Equal Opportunities Statement
Shaw Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment, click here to review Safeguarding and Pupil Protection Policy https://www.shaw-education.org.uk/our-trust/key-information
This position is subject to robust vetting procedures, including an online search for all shortlisted candidates, in line with our Trust’s commitment to safer recruitment.
An enhanced criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), formerly known as the CRB, is required. You will be asked to disclose all relevant unspent and, where applicable, unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions, and convictions.
This role involves working with children and young people and therefore carries specific safeguarding responsibilities, details of these responsibilities are set out in the job description and person specification. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the successful applicant will be required to disclose relevant criminal history information in accordance with current legislation and guidance.
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Shaw Education Trust is an Equal Opportunities employer. We are fully committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection processes promote equality, diversity, and inclusion at every stage.
In accordance with our safer recruitment policy CVs alone will not be accepted.
Application Deadlines
Application deadline: 9.00am 17th July 2026
Interview Date: 20th July 2026
We reserve the right to appoint before the closing date as we review applications on an on-going basis and interviews may be arranged as suitable candidates are identified, therefore, we encourage early applications.
Successful candidates will be subject to a fully Enhanced DBS check along with other relevant employment checks.
Please visit our Trust Careers site for more information on Shaw Education Trust Career Site (schoolrecruiter.com)
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