Job summary
- Main area
- Admin
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-CDO-6485028-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Any NHS England location
- Town
- Leeds/London/Any NHSE base
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum (excluding London HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
IG Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
The Privacy, Transparency & Trust (PTT) Sub-directorate is a sub-directorate of the Delivery Directorate. The mission of the PTT Sub-directorate is to enable NHS England to drive innovation and improve lives through greater use of data and technology and to be a well-run organisation.
The PTT Sub-directorate will enable and promote public trust in NHS England’s custodianship of staff, workforce and patient data. This aligns with the new legal duty of NHS England to have regard to the need to respect and promote privacy of patients and the core principles that underpin NHS England as a safe haven of patient data.
The Information Governance Manager role sits within the PTT Sub-directorate, as part of the IG Delivery (Digital and Operations) domain that is responsible for providing expert advice on IG, legal, policy and professional requirements and guidance. It also provides ‘front door’ IG advice to internal NHS England wider corporate teams. This role promotes and supports a privacy by design approach in NHS England’s national and digital IT services, data platforms, corporate and operational services.
Main duties of the job
Your role will be to provide professional expertise to one of the teams in the PTT Sub-directorate. This will involve providing clear, timely and practical IG advice internally to wider NHS England corporate teams. You will lead and manage key project IG areas and also be required to respond to ad hoc IG queries that are received by the team. You will work within a fast paced and high-performance environment working collaboratively across team, function, and organisational boundaries, to achieve the best outcomes for the organisation. You will need to engage and contribute to a team culture of continuous improvement and excellent service delivery. Developing yourself and others to operate a “one team” respectful and inclusive culture.
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You can find further details about the job, organisational structure, recruitment profile, expected outcomes and benefits information in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Graduate level qualification / equivalent experience: Educated to Graduate degree level (in a relevant subject) or equivalent relevant experience within a professional working environment.
- Post-Graduate level qualification / equivalent experience: Educated to Post-Graduate degree level (in a relevant subject) or equivalent relevant experience within a professional working environment.
- IG accredited qualification: Accredited IG specific qualification e.g. (but not limited to) BCS, ISEB, PDP, IAPP.
Desirable criteria
- Other relevant accredited qualification: Accredited qualifications which would materially benefit the performance of your role such as qualifications in project management (e.g. Agile, Prince II), technology (such as advanced level user of Microsoft Office365), security, communications, or leadership.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- The role requires a good knowledge of the following laws and legal frameworks: • Data protection law: Understanding key principles and concepts of data protection law set out in the UK GDPR, DPA 2018, Human Rights Act 1998. • Common law duty of confidentiality: Understanding the common law duty of confidentiality, how it applies to NHS England’s use of patient data, including the gateways for sharing confidential data with third parties. • NHS legal framework: Understanding the statutory functions of NHS England, the laws which underpin those functions, and how those laws impact NHS England’s use of personal data. • Records management: Where required by the specific role, knowledge of the Public Records Act 1958. • FOIA & EIR: Where required by the specific role, knowledge of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and Environmental Information Regulations 2004.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in an information governance / privacy / data protection role. • Experience of providing timely, clear and practical IG advice in a range of formats including verbal advice and on a range of matters, services, and projects, including advice on privacy by design. • Experience in identifying IG, compliance and operational risks and issues, identifying and advising on mitigations and escalating where appropriate. • Experience of writing key information governance documents, including information governance policies and procedures, data protection impact assessments, privacy notices, briefings, advice notes, reports etc. Ability to tailor such documents to the various audiences.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Paul Gardner
- Job title
- IG Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07702 422364
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