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Joining #TeamNELFT means you'll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We're CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
Job overview
This role is part of the Informatics Team. This team concentrates on understanding things that are important to our customers (short, medium and long term), and devising and overseeing the appropriate strategy and services, along with the required governance and business infrastructure to meet them.
The Head of Information Security and Compliance will improve service delivery and compliance and promote informatics in supporting patient experience and ensure clinicians have appropriate support to support patient care.
The post holder will ensure informatics performance/quality targets are met across all corporate services. To problem solve as appropriate; develop and implement lasting solutions in conjunction with clinical and managerial colleagues.
The post holder will be responsible for strategy and overseeing information and security compliance across NELFT business units.
Main duties of the job
* Ensure the highest possible standard of information security and compliance service provision through the effective day-to-day management of the service delivery.
* Act as the primary information security and compliance lead for IM&T service users through the trust.
* Ensure all information security and compliance incidents, changes, and service requests are managed in accordance with service level agreements.
* Act as a specialist in the field of information security and compliance for the Trust.
* Ensure service consistently meets service delivery targets through established capacity and business continuity plans.
* Lead Information Security and Compliance across informatics, develop strategy; formulate objectives and research and develop ideas for future development.
* Monitor and evaluate performance against objectives; identify and manage change.
* Develop and maintain effective communication both within NELFT and with relevant outside agencies.
* Manage and maintain the Information security and compliance risk register.
Person specification
Essential criteria
* Security Qualifications such as CISSP, CISM
* 10+ years of experience
* Strategic lead for the development and implementation of the Information Security and Compliance Strategy and policy across areas of clinical and corporate services, based on a sound understanding of the current and future services and the technology available.
Equal opportunities employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.
We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities.
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