Providing specialist expert advice to the SIRO and Caldicott Guardian to ensure that the Trust operates within legal and ethical frameworks. To build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders to provide and receive information regarding highly sensitive clinical matters, patients' personal information, safeguarding issues, or contentious details within major organisational change. Use negotiation, motivational, and persuasive skills to engage staff and ensure successful implementation of systems, methods, and processes relating to Information Governance.
Liaise directly with the Information Commissioners Office on appeals, complaints, and reviews submitted to them by members of the public.
To be a resource for all employees by providing advice and guidance on complex Data Protection issues in relation to legislation, national guidance, and protocols, as well as local policies and procedures. To undertake Information Risk Assessment, monitor Information Security incident forms, investigate, and resolve complex breaches in security and confidentiality, identifying areas of improvement and developing appropriate reports. To notify the fact of processing to the Information Commissioner and analyse and maintain the accuracy and currency of the organisation's annual registration. Analytical skills are required to diagnose a complex information governance problem and to understand the complexity of the situation or sensitivity surrounding it.
Manage detailed DPA requests (including requests that overlap between DPA and the Freedom of Information Act) and respond to concerns relating to DPA both in writing and in the form of meetings with the public and/or those representing them. Monitor and audit processes to identify gaps or weaknesses in current practices or IT systems, ensuring all recommendations are implemented to deliver an improvement in The Trust's service delivery.
Recruitment and line management of the Information Governance Team, including encouragement of CPD, managing attendance at work, managing grievances and disciplinary hearings, appraisals, and performance. As the Trust's lead officer, provide subject matter expertise in the design and maintenance of the Trust's national data sharing information system portal and oversee its maintenance.
Required to regularly design, undertake, and formally report on information governance audits and surveys, internal or external to the department. To undertake investigations into complaints about breaches of the Data Protection Act. You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
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