Information Governance & Safeguarding Lead/Administration Manager

NHS; Preston; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Preston is seeking a motivated Information Governance & Safeguarding Lead/Administration Manager. This part-time role (30 hours/week) involves ensuring compliance with data protection regulations, overseeing the administrative team, and leading team development. Candidates should have experience in a healthcare setting and strong management skills. The position offers a friendly working environment that supports professional growth and efficient patient services.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018.
• Ability to manage and lead a team in a healthcare setting.
• Experience in training and development of staff.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with data protection and safeguarding regulations.
• Oversee audits and manage the administrative team.
• Support the Practice Manager in CQC compliance.

Skills

Data Protection Compliance

Team Management

Auditing Skills

Education

GCSE Grade A to C in English Language and Maths

NVQ Level 2-3

Job description

Information Governance & Safeguarding Lead/Administration Manager

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated individual to join our friendly management team. If you are looking for a part-time role in a friendly rural location, we may have the ideal position for you. The position is for 30 hours per week, days and times to be confirmed at interview.

Main duties of the job

The InformationGovernance & Safeguarding Lead / Administration Manager plays a key role inensuring the practice meets statutory requirements relating to data protection,confidentiality, safeguarding, and compliance. The postholder will oversee informationgovernance processes, act as a safeguarding point of contact, and manage theadministrative team to ensure efficient, high-quality patient services. Therole supports operational delivery, compliance, continuous improvement, and aculture of quality and accountability across the practice

About us

Great Eccleston health Centre is a rural GP practice with an excellent reputation for patient care and service provision.

The Practice serves a community of 7900 patients

The Practice is forward thinking and recognises the skills and interests of all our team members.

Job responsibilities

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Summary of Responsibilities below:-

InformationGovernance & Data Protection

Ensurecompliance with UK GDPR, Data Protection Act 2018, NHS Digital standards, andCaldicott principles.

Act as DataProtection point of contact and support the Caldicott Guardian and DPO.

Overseepolicies relating to data handling, confidentiality agreements, retentionschedules, and access to records.

Support the PracticeManager and SARS lead with Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs), FOI requests,and information-sharing agreements.

Lead audits,risk assessments, incident investigations, and reporting of data breaches viathe Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT).

Coordinatestaff IG training, competency checks, and mandatory updates

Safeguarding

Act as an AdministrativeSafeguarding Lead (Adults & Children), working with the ClinicalSafeguarding Lead where applicable.

Ensurecompliance with statutory guidance including Working Together to SafeguardChildren and Care Act 2014.

Maintainsafeguarding registers, referrals, meeting notes, coding, and alerts.

Liaise withexternal agencies (social services, police, health visitors, MARAC, MASH).

Deliver orcoordinate safeguarding training and maintain staff competency and records.

Supportpractice-level audits, reporting and learning from serious incidents

Governance,Compliance & Quality Improvement

Support thePractice Manager with CQC compliance (particularly domains: Well-Led, Safe,Responsive).

Ensure that our CQC-regulated services can meet or exceedcurrent legislative and regulatory requirements by ensuring that documentedcompliance management can be evidenced across the practice.

Assisting with the practice audit program, carrying outaudits to measure service compliance against a range of agreed indicators.

Maintainevidence for inspections including policy reviews, meeting minutes, audittrails, and mandatory training logs.

Supportincident reporting and learning processes.

Contribute topractice-wide quality improvement initiatives and PCN collaboration.

AdministrationManagement

Line-manageadmin staff, including rotas, appraisals, performance management, induction,and training.

Overseeday-to-day workflow including clinical correspondence, summarising, coding,scanning and recall processes.

Monitorworkload demand proposing improvements to systems and resources;

Leadrecruitment, onboarding and HR administrative processes as required.

Promote apositive team culture focused on patient experience, safety, andaccountability.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• GCSE Grade A to C in English Language and Maths
• Evidence of further qualifications e.g. NVQ Level 2-3

Experience

• Experience of working with the public
• Experience of administrative duties
• Experience of working in a health care setting
• Experience of leading/managing a team
• Experience of providing appraisal writing and staff development

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.