Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone.
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
Reporting to the Cybersecurity Manager, the post holder will be directly responsible for LGT's efforts to secure and maintain a resilient IT infrastructure and its regulatory compliance.
The post holder will be supporting the Cybersecurity Manager for maintaining information technology network and cyber security systems including functions related with endpoint patching. Implement patch and software updates/upgrades Trust wide, manage security configuration of the systems, demonstrate system health and compliance based on pre-defined standards and routine maintenance of endpoints.
The postholder will work with other members of the team on Trust's efforts to protect its digital assets and maintain statutory compliance standards.
Previous applicants need not apply.
Main duties of the job
1. Conduct quarterly comprehensive review of LGT's cybersecurity posture, incorporating threat intelligence and security assessments. Based on the findings, update and enhance the cybersecurity strategy to address identified risks and emerging threats
2. Develop knowledge of the Cyber Security industry, using this to improve the Trust's technical, procedural and staff response. Maintain a cybersecurity dashboard.
Produce management reports on key risks, exceptions, countermeasures, vulnerabilities & trends.
3. Supporting the Cybersecurity Manager in working with NHSD and other government agencies to understand and respond to actions, requests and establish
good working relationships within the support team and amongst clients within the organisation.
4. Supporting the Cybersecurity Manager for being Responsible for information and cyber security tools and services, investigating and dealing with IT network and
cyber security incidents and issues as they arise and supporting information security
across the wider Trust.
5. Support the Infrastructure and Desktop teams and Network Security Manager, in aspects relating to cybersecurity as well as system and OS configurations and providing cover for their BAU processes.
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
6. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
7. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
8. Improving the experience of staff with disability
9. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
10. Making equalities mainstream
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Network and Cyber security vulnerabilities - Identify all the IP addresses currently in use by the Trust.
Take responsibility for a regular scan of all identified IP addresses, based on a recommended set of TCP and UDP ports.
Help the cyber security manager to Manage the IT Network aspects to ensure attainment and maintenance of Cyber Essentials Plus certification for Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust.
Undertake continuous IT network and cyber security threat horizon scanning to ensure vulnerability reduction
Please refer to the JD attached and person specification for full details
Person specification
Essential criteria
11. Educated to degree level in IT
12. Cyber Security / IT Network Certifications
13. Evidence of Continued Professional Development
Desirable criteria
14. CCSP or similar certifications
15. Post graduate qualifications or similar training in IT/Cyber Security
16. Microsoft Certifications
Experinece
Essential criteria
17. IT Network Management
18. Firewall Management
19. IT Network and Technical support
20. Experience of Microsoft office including Excel
Desirable criteria
21. Experience in an acute NHS healthcare organisation.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
22. Ability to communicate effectively at all levels in a complex, multi-disciplinary environment, both orally and in writing.
23. Ability to generate management reports for staff management purposes.
24. Ability to troubleshoot problems.
Desirable criteria
25. Understanding and knowledge of confidentiality guidance.
26. Knowledge of the Information Governance Toolkit requirements
We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.
As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women’s staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.
Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.
Application numbers
To ensure fairness and manageable shortlisting processes, some vacancies may have an application cap. This means the vacancy will close once a set number of applications have been received even if this happens before the advertised closing date.
We recommend applying as early as possible to avoid missing out. All applications received before the cap is reached will be considered equally and assessed against the person specification.