Nottingham City Council

Service Desk Technician

Company
Location
Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
8/4/2025
Description
Job Description

Contract Type: 1 Year Fixed Term Contract

Working Hours: 37 hours per week

Worker Type: Hybrid Worker with a higher percentage of office work than home working

Salary: Starting Salary is £25,992 (Level one) rising to £26,835 (Level three)

Location: Loxley House, Station Street, Nottingham NG2 3NG

We’ve got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce - perhaps this is the opportunity you’ve been looking for? Read on to find out more…

Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.

In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.

* You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council here .

About The Role

To provide a first point of contact to customers, processing requests for support, coordinating resolution with appropriate functions in line with the ITIL standards and procedures adopted by NCC. To actively promote knowledge management, self-service and alternate delivery methods to proactively manage customer demand.

About You

The ideal candidate will have:

  • Have excellent customer service and communication skills to handle general IT Enquiries, over the phone, face to face and via self-service support tickets
  • Ability to troubleshoot basic networking, hardware, software, and application problems.
  • Ability to produce clear written and verbal communications and to update systems and databases accurately.
  • Provide administration for various in-house systems in creating/amending/deleting user accounts, password resets and various other tasks.
  • Able to work individually or as part of a team using own initiative.

In addition to the above the ideal candidate must be able to work to a rota which covers the Service Desk working hours Monday - Friday 08:00 - 17:00

Essential Requirements

  • Experience of basic technical knowledge to effectively understand the problem reported and carry out troubleshooting of hardware, software and remote working issues.
  • Awareness of a wide range of Microsoft systems/products such as Active Directory, Office 365, Windows 10/11, Exchange, Intune, VoIP and an understanding of corporate applications
  • Good customer service skills and serving as the first point of contact for customers seeking technical assistance in a friendly and polite manner.
  • Ability to prioritise work and deliver results in a pressurised environment balancing conflicting demands to achieve acceptable outcomes.
  • Understanding of network security, information security and data protection

This post is covered by the statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) (English Language Requirement for public sector workers) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English, is an essential requirement for the role.

You can find the job description for this post here

At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional information for applicants page.

For informal enquiries please contact Fiona Wain, Incident and Senior Service Desk Analyst, by email to [email protected].

Closing Date: 17th August 2025

Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Interviews will be held: TBC

If you have any technical issues when completing your application, please contact our Employee Service Centre: https://emss.org.uk/support

By applying to this job, you agree to our Terms & Conditions.

About Us

Thank you for your interest in working for Nottingham City Council. As one of the largest employers in Nottingham we offer a wide range of roles across a range of services. In return for your skill, drive and commitment to serving the people of Nottingham, we can help you to develop an exciting and rewarding career, with access to the following benefits.

In addition to working within a great team and a competitive salary you will have access to:

  • 26 days annual leave (rising to 33 days after 5 years’ service) + bank holidays with the ability to buy additional leave annually
  • Access to a generous, defined benefit pension scheme offering 17.9%
  • Smart Working – to support your work life balance
  • Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme
  • Discounted membership at selected local sports and fitness centres, cinema, shopping and much more!

Nottingham City Council is committed to recruiting a talented workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and with different abilities. We recruit for diversity and value difference.

We particularly want to hear from you if you are from Minority Ethnic communities, identify within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer+ community (LGBTQ+) and if you are Disabled - these groups of people are underrepresented in our workforce, and we’d like to reflect our local population more through our recruitment processes.

We are supportive of flexible working arrangements wherever possible and we would encourage you to discuss this with us during the selection process, should this be something you are interested in.
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