Information Governance Specialist

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is recruiting an Information Governance Specialist to support the Head of cyber security and information governance in reviewing and implementing the Trust's IG Strategy and improvement programme, ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements.

The role will lead Data Security and Protection Toolkit completion and provide expert information governance guidance across the Trust.

Responsibilities

• Review and implement the Trust's Information Governance (IG) Strategy and improvement programme.
• Lead on ensuring the requirements of the Data Security and Protection Toolkit are met.
• Provide leadership and expert advice on information governance across the Trust.

Job description

We are recruiting for an Information Governance Specialist who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients. The post holder will support the Head of cyber security and information governance in reviewing and implementing the Trusts IG Strategy and improvement program ensuring the Trust meets with all the statutory and regulatory requirements for information governance. The role will lead on ensuring the requirements of the Data Security and Protection toolkit are met. Provide leadership and expert advice on information governance across the Trust on information governance. Data protection, GDPR and on developing new and innovation approaches, ensuring compliance with all the relevant legal and regulatory framework Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!, Support Data Protection Officer (DPO) the development and implementation of the Trust's Information Governance Strategy, policies and delivery of the associated work programme to meet statutory, regulatory and legislative requirements, national/local policies and best practice. Interpret the requirements of the Data Security and Protection Toolkit, develop and lead an improvement plan, liaising with the identified leads to ensure the organisation meets with the requirements and has the supporting evidence internal and external inspection. Lead and ensure the timely completion of the annual Data Security and Protection Toolkit, and take the lead on specific measures, in order to gain internal authorisation prior to submission in line with the national deadlines. Identify risks across the Trust in relation to information governance, ensure actions taken to mitigate the risks and escalated as appropriate and maintain an Information Governance Risk Register. Support the DPO and interpret the legislation and national guidance in relation to Information Governance and make recommendations to ensure that the Trusts meets the requirements.

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now. We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda. We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.