ICT Senior Security Analyst | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Flexible working

Wellbeing programs

Staff recognition scheme

Job summary

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking a Senior ICT Security Analyst to safeguard the Trust’s digital landscape. You will work with clinical and operational teams to monitor threats and implement security controls, ensuring least privilege access and robust risk reporting.

The role involves collaboration, ongoing threat assessment, and contributing to security strategy across the Trust’s information systems. A proactive approach to evolving cyber threats is essential.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of cyber security principles and risk management.
• Experience coordinating with IT/operations teams to mitigate risks.
• Ability to maintain and improve security controls and policies.

Responsibilities

• Oversee cyber security tooling and ensure protection of Trust information systems.
• Coordinate with operations to plan, test and deploy security upgrades.
• Assess NHS Cyber Alerts and coordinate response with relevant teams.
• Maintain cyber security risk registers and prepare related reports.
• Support DSPT submissions and develop additional security controls.

Skills

Cyber security

Threat intelligence

Identity and access management

Team collaboration

Job description

ICT Senior Security Analyst | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

The cyber security analyst is an exciting role within the cyber security team, ensuring the overall digital safety and security of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

The analyst keeps informed with the constantly changing wider cyber security environment, through a pro-active approach to understanding new threats and exploring new technologies. Technically skilled and responsible for the provision and security for all cyber security toolsets, the cyber security analyst works closely with the Trust's technical operational teams and operations teams, to report on and mitigate threats to the trust.

Working closely with technical operations teams to assess and mitigate any outstanding security risks to the trust. In addition to planning, testing and implementing specific upgrades and maintenance, with the technical operational teams.

Assessing any NHS Cyber Alerts that effect the trust, responding to and mitigating with other teams, where necessary.

Maintaining the trusts Cyber security risk register and related reports.

Co-ordinating with external security providers, including the provision of regular independent assessments of the trusts overall cyber security risk.

Providing support to assist with the trust annual data security and protection toolkit (DSPT) submission and developing additional security controls and/or policies where gaps exist as the DSPT continues to evolve.

Investigate, review, adopt and use new cyber security technologies and toolsets and advise on how the Trusts overall cyber security standpoint can be improved.

Works closely with operations teams to understand and minimise any potential service impact of system upgrades and risk mitigation strategies.

Oversee identity and access management to trust information systems, ensuring least privilege principles.

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

• Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme.
• Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Climate change and poor air quality is a health emergency that harms people’s health and wellbeing and widens health inequalities. The Trust is also committed to reducing its impact on the environment by reducing our greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2045. All our employees have a role to play, and we have an active green network that supports staff to act in ways that ensures that our services are efficient, sustainable and reduce our impact on the environmentwww.imperial.nhs.uk/about-us/our-strategy/green-plan.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

This advert closes on Thursday 19 Nov 2026