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 five 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.
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Job overview
This role is part of The Trust’s Information Security Team. This team is responsible for the implementation, operation and continued improvements to information security controls / processes to protect The Trust’s information and systems assets from the ever increasing and evolving cyber threats.
The Information Security GRC Manager will improve service delivery and compliance and promote informatics in supporting patient experience and ensure clinicians have appropriate support to support patient care.
The Information Security GRC manager will be responsible for establishment and operation of The Trust Information Security Governance framework for the effective implementation of information security controls and processes in line with The Trust’s information security risks, compliance to NHS England’s and The Trust’s security polices/standards and legal/regulatory requirements.
The role will facilitate with Information Governance providing Information Security guidance to improve patient experience by ensuring clinicians have the appropriate tools to support patient care in a secure manner and to meet quality targets.
This is a senior position that requires specialist skills in stakeholder management. Of particular importance is the ability to build strong and effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders and the skill to manage conflicting demands and tensions of a broad range of stakeholders.
Main duties of the job
1. Act as a specialist in the field of information security and GRC for the Trust.
2. Highest possible standard of information security and GRC service provision through the effective day to day management of the service delivery.
3. Ensure all Information security and GRC incidents, changes, service requests are managed in accordance with service level agreements.
4. Ensure service consistently meets service delivery targets through established capacity and business continuity plans.
5. Lead Information Security and GRC across informatics, develop strategy; formulate objectives and research and develop ideas for future development.
6. Monitor and evaluate performance against objectives; identify and manage change.
7. Establish effective communication both within the NELFT and with relevant outside agencies.
8. Manage and maintain the Information security and compliance risk register and Information security governance frameworks.
9. Create, communicate and maintain information security policies.
10. Carry out Information security risk assessment and management.
11. Establish and report on information security KPIs and KRIs.
12. Ensure compliance to legal/regulatory requirements.
13. Carry out resource planning and management for security projects.
14. Ensure Quality Management.
15. Stakeholder Management.
Working for our organisation
Our Values 2025 - 2030
Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have coproduced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.
They are:
We are kind.
We are respectful.
We work together with our communities.
These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
High Cost Area Supplement – Outer London
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,714 to a maximum of £5,941 per annum (pro rata for part time).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer to this when completing your application.
We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Please apply as soon as possible as some posts close early to limit the number of applications.
Certificates of Sponsorship
Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points-based system. When calculating the basic salary for sponsorship, HCAS (High-Cost Area Supplement) is not included to ensure fairness and consistency within our Trust.
Use of AI
Please see attached document regarding acceptable use of AI during the recruitment process.
Person specification
People
Essential criteria
16. Putting people first, prioritizing quality, professional, honesty
Desirable criteria
17. Understanding of NHS environments
Professional
Essential criteria
18. Experience in similar environments
Desirable criteria
19. Relevant qualifications
Benefits
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
20. A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
21. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
22. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
23. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.