Job vacancy: Packaging Engineer, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, Reading

Job summary

Main area: DDaT - Infrastructure
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 193-8090010COR

Employer: Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Royal Berkshire Hospital Main Site
Town: Reading
Salary: £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 16/08/2026 23:59

Packaging Engineer

NHS AfC: Band 6

At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust we put our patients at the heart of every element of health and care that we provide. The Trust works together as a community to deliver its vision which is “Working together to provide outstanding care for our community.”

Royal Berkshire Hospital are pleased to announce that following our CQC inspection we have been rated ‘Good’ with inspectors reporting that we have made significant improvements. The Trust’s overall rating has also improved to ‘good’.

We are Compassionate in our thoughts, words and actions

We are Aspirational and have a true desire to be dynamic and to innovate

We are Resourceful and responsible in the way we work and live

We are Excellent in our development, fairness and sharing best practice

At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, we value candidates who bring their unique personalities, skills, and experiences to the Trust. When completing your application, we encourage you to highlight your individual achievements and strengths, showing us how they align with the requirements outlined in the job description and person specification. While we recognise that some applicants may use AI tools during the process, please be mindful that AI-generated responses can often lack the personal detail and relevance needed to demonstrate your suitability for the role. AI generated content is discouraged by the Trust and may diminish the candidates chances of success.

Amazing things happen at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust; delivered by amazing people so why don’t you come and join us. We offer a range of learning and development for all employees may you be clinical or non-clinical.

Please note: all vacancies automatically close when 50 applications have been received.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Provide software application packaging services to end users and deliver applications to end users that meet RBH deployment strategy and security policies.
Work in a collaborative manner with other DDaT colleagues to deliver tasks successfully.
Plan, configure, manage and maintain all hardware and software components of specialist area to deliver optimum system availability to users, and ensuring all supplier provided patches and upgrades to the operating system, database, tools and utilities are applied in a timely manner.
Maintain the security and integrity of all systems related to specialist area including managing all user access rights and implementation of any necessary backup regimes and other disaster recovery procedures.
Providing technical and administrative support for specialist systems, including the production of system specification documentation and the production of relevant procedures and protocols.
Monitoring and managing system performance, capacity and growth, providing advice on necessary upgrades and replacement of hardware and software to maintain the reliability of the systems. Implement hardware changes and upgrades and database upgrades and migrations to maintain system performance and growth capacity.
Ensuring compliance with Trust guidelines and other relevant policies.
To maintain awareness of technical developments and research new technologies with a view to providing advice to DevOps Specialist on suitable deployment strategies for RBH.
Responsible for maintaining own specialist skills with appropriate professional training.
Packaging Engineer
Carry out support and service to all customers during the agreed working hours, including any out of hours working.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Educated to degree level in relevant subject
Equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
Demonstrate qualification and expertise in software packaging
Knowledge and qualification of standard technologies such as SCCM, AppV and MSIX AppAttach

Desirable criteria

Formal technical qualification, e.g. MCSE or equivalent
Leadership qualification
Customer service qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

Proven experience of being able to speak credibly and authoritatively to technical and non-technical audiences and assimilate technical language quickly and effectively
Knowledge and experience of the delivery of clear communicator with excellent writing, report writing and presentation skills
Experience of being able to construct and deliver clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately for diverse audiences
Evidence of excellent customer service skills
Proven experience of improving services and performance for end users
Experience of software packaging using industry standard tools such as Flexera Admin Studio and deployment of legacy Windows applications and UWP using SCCM or Intune

Desirable criteria

Experience of working within a healthcare environment
Experience of working within a busy, fast moving digital environment

Skillss, Knowledge & Abilities

Desirable criteria

Ability to communication on complex matters and difficult situations, requiring persuasion and influence
Ability to nurture key relationships and maintaining personal networks
Ability to analyse and interpret information, pre-empt and evaluate issues, and recommend and appropriate course of action to address the issues
Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
Good planning and risk management skills, with the ability to pre-empt potential issues and mitigate effectively to stop system disruptions occurring
Ability to engender trust and confidence and demonstrate integrity in the provision of advice and support
Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload without supervision working to tight and often changing timescales

We are an approved sponsoring organisation. Applications will be considered from applicants requiring sponsorship alongside all other applications. Please be aware, not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible role and requirements on the government website.

Staff Benefits

Flexible working opportunities and a strong emphasis on your work, life balance
Annual leave – 27 days for new starters, plus bank holidays. Increasing to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years NHS service. Pro rata for part time staff
NHS pension scheme
Employee Assistance Programme
Money Advice Service
Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave for eligible staff
On-site nursery (based at RBH)
Full educational library services
Cycle to work scheme, lockable storage for cycles
Bus to work scheme
Excellent rail and bus links
A huge range of Health Service Discounts at hundreds of big brands from holidays to gadgets and restaurants to retail.

After applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system (TRAC). All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through the NHS Jobs website, and furthermore, that as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website.

By applying for this post you are agreeing to Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are appointed to a post information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Appointment to any position is conditional on the satisfactory completion of the core NHS Employment Checks Standards. Information disclosed in your application will be checked and any offer of appointment may be withdrawn if you knowingly withhold information or provide false or misleading information. All new appointments to the Trust, with the exception of executive positions, are subject to a 6 month probationary period.

The Trust may close any vacancy prior to the advertised closing date due to the high level of responses we receive for some of our vacancies.

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is committed to improving the health of its staff, patients and the wider community by providing a smoke free environment. A smoke free policy is in operation and smoking is not permitted on any of the Trust’s sites.

The Trust is also committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children, young people and vulnerable adults.