About this role
Job summary
Nottinghamshire Health Informatics Service (NHIS) is seeking an experienced and strategic cyber security leader to join our Digital Leadership Team as Head of Cyber Security (Operational).
You will provide both strategic and operational leadership for cyber security, ensuring the protection of critical systems, data and digital services while enabling the safe delivery of patient care. Acting as the organisation's senior cyber security expert, you will lead cyber risk management, incident response, threat intelligence, vulnerability management and security assurance activities across the organisation.
Working closely with senior executives, clinical leaders and partner organisations, you will develop and deliver cyber security strategies, programmes and business cases that strengthen organisational resilience and support wider digital transformation objectives. You will also lead and develop a specialist cyber security team, ensuring the service remains responsive to emerging threats, regulatory requirements and evolving organisational needs.
This is an excellent opportunity for a highly motivated cyber professional with substantial leadership experience, strong technical expertise and a passion for protecting healthcare services. The successful candidate will combine strategic thinking with operational excellence, providing assurance at Board level while driving continuous improvement across cyber security services.
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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Job description Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements Essential
Expert knowledge of digital best practice and procedures. Excellent understanding of information security and information governance. Excellent working knowledge of current practices and issues in the cyber field
Qualifications Essential
Masters degree level qualification relevant for the role or demonstrable equivalent level of experience. Specialist cyber related qualification. Commitment to CPD of self and others; maintaining relationships with NHS E to stay informed, looking at tools that could be the best for the organisation and keeping up to date with current threats e.g. listening to podcasts etc.
Experience Essential
Previous experience of inputting into short, medium and long term strategic plans and policies. Previous experience of all aspects of people management, from recruitment to dealing with disciplinary matters. Substantial experience of working to tight KPI's/targets with the ability to work well under pressure to achieve these. Experience of working in a large and complex multi-tiered environment. Able to use own judgement and have an excellent level of knowledge in the field to problem solve on highly complex issues. Able to plan, prioritise and manage conflicting and complex agendas and priorities for yourself and others, in order to meet challenging deadlines. Able to analyse very complex issues where information is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources. Able to act as a change agent. Excellent communication skills in order to convey highly complex and highly sensitive digital / cyber issues to a non-digital / cyber audience. An ability to foster excellent working relationships at all levels. Able to hold coaching conversations with team members, guiding and supporting as necessary.
Contractual Requirement Essential
Ability to travel to other Trust sites where required Ability to work onsite when required Ability to work outside core 'office hours' to meet the demands of the service Clean driving licence and use of own car. The post holder may be required to form part of the on-call management rota
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details Employer name Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address King's Mill Hospital
Mansfield Road
Sutton in Ashfield
NG17 4JL
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)