IT Support Apprentice
VENTURE 1 CONSULTING
GREATER LONDON, SE1 7SJ
Closes in 5 days (Friday 29 November)
Posted on 6 November 2024
Contents
Summary
You will part of our busy service desk taking support requirements from our extensive customer base. Working alongside senior engineers, you will ensure that support tickets are closed in a timely manner inline with service level agreements. These can be both hardware and software related.
- Annual wage
- £14,000 a year
- Training course
- Information communications technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday (Between 08:00 and 18:00)
37 hours a week
- Possible start date
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Friday 6 December
- Duration
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1 year 3 months
- Positions available
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2
Work
As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.
What you’ll do at work
We are looking to recruit an Helpdesk Apprentice who is a hardworking, organised individual with flexibility and a willingness to learn.
As an Helpdesk Apprentice your main roles and responsibilities will include:
• Becoming a valued part of the IT Support team
• Learning how to provide technical support
• Assisting in customer projects and support activities as skills allow
• Gaining on the job experience and being able to utilize the skills you have gained over the duration of your apprenticeship
• Helping the existing staff, and the other sub-contractors partnered with, to deliver IT support services to clients
• Learning how to handle telephone support calls as well as incoming helpdesk emails
• Managing the helpdesk system, ensuring all calls are handled within appropriate timescales
• Working on resolving the first line support where capable and working with more experienced staff to help resolve more complex issues or referring to second/third line support staff where necessary
• Updating company systems
Where you’ll work
CHINA WORKS
100 BLACK PRINCE ROAD
LONDON
GREATER LONDON
SE1 7SJ
Training
An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.
College or training organisation
LIFETIME TRAINING GROUP LIMITED
Your training course
Information communications technician (level 3)
Equal to A level
Course contents
- Interpret and prioritise internal or external customer's requirements in line with organisation's policy
- Apply the appropriate tools and techniques to undertake fault finding and rectification
- apply Continuous Professional Development to support necessary business output and technical developments
- Operate safely and securely across platforms and responsibilities maintaining the security of personal data of internal and external stakeholders
- Communicate with all levels of stakeholders, keeping them informed of progress and managing escalation where appropriate
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues, customers and other relevant stakeholders
- Manage and prioritise the allocated workload effectively making best use of time and resources
- Complete documentation relevant to the task and escalate where appropriate
- Install or undertake basic software upgrades,either physically or remotely
- Establish and diagnose the extent of the IT support task, in line with the organisation's policies and Service Level Agreements
- Provide remote/F2F support to resolve customer requirements
- Maintain a safe working environment for own personal safety and others in line with Health & Safety appropriate to the task
- Identify and scope the best solution informed by the system data associated with the task
- Test and evaluate the system's performance and compliance with customer requirements.
- Escalate non routine problems in line with procedures
- Use basic scripting to execute the relevant tasks for example PowerShell, Linux
- Carry out routine maintenance across systems, (such as IT, Communications), ensuring organisational compliance at all times
- Apply the necessary security, in line with access and/or encryption requirements
- Use a range of Cabling or Connectors equipment in line with technical requirements for example physically or remotely
- Test and evaluate network environments
- Monitor performance and usage of a network
- Deploy applications on a network
- Set up storage and data access for staff
- Apply necessary security measures, in line with access requirements to a network
- Carry out routine maintenance across network systems, ensuring organisational compliance
- Monitor network-related workloads including DNS and firewalls
- Install or undertake basic upgrades, either physically or remotely
- Establish digital communication or telecommunications systems through, for example cabling and connecting equipment.
- Identify a range of tools and or diagnostic equipment, for example, Hardware or Software components, to resolve Communications or Telecommunications requirements.
- Undertake basic telecommunications activities, in response to an allocated task, designated responsibilities, instructions or customer’s requirements.
- Use information necessary to identify operational issues and rectify or escalate accordingly in line with policy
- Interpret and prioritise internal or external customer's requirements in line with organisation's policy
- Apply the appropriate tools and techniques to undertake fault finding and rectification
- apply Continuous Professional Development to support necessary business output and technical developments
- Operate safely and securely across platforms and responsibilities maintaining the security of personal data of internal and external stakeholders
- Communicate with all levels of stakeholders, keeping them informed of progress and managing escalation where appropriate
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues, customers and other relevant stakeholders
- Manage and prioritise the allocated workload effectively making best use of time and resources
- Complete documentation relevant to the task and escalate where appropriate
- Install or undertake basic software upgrades,either physically or remotely
- Establish and diagnose the extent of the IT support task, in line with the organisation's policies and Service Level Agreements
- Provide remote/F2F support to resolve customer requirements
- Maintain a safe working environment for own personal safety and others in line with Health & Safety appropriate to the task
Your training plan
Requirements
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Team working
About this company
We strive to deliver ethical, innovative, inclusive IT to our customers, with exceptional levels of skill, service, and quality, and in a manner that intrinsically supports sustainability, protecting the future of our wonderful planet. Venture 1 Consulting was established in London in 2000, and has been helping businesses deliver innovation and efficiencies through the use of fit-for-purpose technology solutions ever since.
After this apprenticeship
Venture 1 has a history of employing graduate apprentices into Full Time roles.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LIFETIME TRAINING GROUP LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000286185.
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Closes in 5 days (Friday 29 November)
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