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Sussex Interpreting Services
Job Vacancy – Digital Support Worker (part-time 0.6 FTE)
1 year fixed term – 21 hours per week
NJC Scale 5
£13,310 actual salary p/a (£22,183 p/a pro rata)

Closing date: 9am Thursday 29th April 2021
Interview date: Tuesday 11th May 2021

This is a re-advertisement with an updated Job Description and Person Specification. We encourage all those who have expressed an interest to submit an application. Thank you

Sussex Interpreting Services is a social enterprise and registered charity based in Brighton.

We work in partnership with the NHS, local authorities and other public and third sector organisations to ensure people with language support needs have full access to publicly funded services.

We help approximately 4500 people in Brighton and Hove, East Sussex and West Sussex, and deliver Community Interpreting, Translation, Advocacy, Social Prescribing, Befriending, Health Promotion and Community Engagement. We have an opportunity for a talented individual to join our staff team as a Digital Support Worker.

The principal purpose of the role is to provide first-line support to a busy team for information and communication technology (ICT), to support innovation and development and to perform regular system monitoring and maintenance. The aim is to support the culture, practices, processes and technologies of the internet era to respond to customer need.

We are looking for an outgoing and friendly individual with excellent communication skills who is able to work flexibly within a team, manage competing priorities and use their initiative to anticipate and solve problems.

You should have a commitment to Equal Opportunity and Diversity and to furthering Sussex Interpreting Services’ Vision, Mission and Values.

Note: All new employees are appointed to the bottom of the salary scale range applicable to the post.

Working days and hours will be negotiated with the successful applicant.

Additional staff benefits include: friendly working environment, central Brighton location / working from home (as COVID appropriate), 29 days annual leave (pro rata), additional paid carers & dependents leave, access to a generous company contributory pension scheme.