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About
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning NHS Foundation Trust which provides hospital and community health services in North Tyneside, and hospital, community health and adult social care services in Northumberland.
Head of Information & Cyber Security
Accepting applications until: 17-Mar-2026 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 17-Mar-2026 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Manufacturing & Innovation Hub Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Address
- Avenue Road
- Town
- Seaton Delaval
- Postcode
- NE25 0QJ
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £76,965 - £88,682 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 8c)
Specialty
- Main area
- Cyber Security
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare.
Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It’s open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
We are seeking an exceptional and forward thinking Head of Information & Cyber Security to lead our Trust's security strategy, ensuring our information, systems, and digital services remain resilient, compliant, and protected against evolving cyber threats.
This is a senior leadership position, accountable to the Board for establishing and maintaining a Trust-wide information security management program, responsible for shaping our information security governance framework, providing expert advice to executive leadership, developing an organisational security culture, and ensuring we meet all relevant regulatory and legislative requirements.
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The Head of Information & Cyber Security is responsible for shaping and executing the Trust's information & cyber security strategy, ensuring alignment with Trust priorities and digital transformation goals.
This role will oversee the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of security policies, frameworks, standards and controls and manage the Trust's approach to risk assessment, threat intelligence, incident response and business continuity.
As Head of Information & Cyber Security you will be responsible for ensuring compliance with key regulations and standards including NIS2, DSPT, CAF, ISO27001, Cyber Essentials Plus, Data Protection Act 2018 and UK GDPR.
You will oversee the effective security operations, monitoring, vulnerability management and penetration testing programmes and act as the key point of contact with external partners such as the NHS Cyber Security Centre, suppliers and third-party security providers.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· Responsible for developing and strengthening information and cyber security provision and implementing strong risk management strategies to protect the organisation
· To develop, maintain and effectively manage the implementation of policies, standards and controls in line with best practice, providing guidance and support to colleagues to ensure security and safety
· Develop the strategic road map for an effective vulnerability detection, assessment, remediation, and threat intelligence program
· Maintain and enhance the Information Security Management system (ISMS)
· To ensure that all changes to the IT environment comply with information security requirements
· Oversee security performance assessment of suppliers and internal resources
· Provide specialist advice on information and cyber security and increase awareness amongst staff
· To work with colleagues to ensure pro-active monitoring of IT infrastructure
· Ensure adherence to standards such as ISO27001, Cyber Essentials Plus and GDPR
· Identify threats, assess their impact, and take appropriate action to resolve and prevent them
· Ability to influence and present at Committee/Board level
· Respond to or manage security incidents/breaches, oversee patching/vulnerabilities or hardening systems including detection, response, recovery, and post-incident analysis
· To develop business cases for Trust capital investments around technical security
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to Masters level (or relevant experience)
- Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) certification or Certified Information Systems Practitioner (CISSP)
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- PRINCE2, project management, (or equivalent experience) and change management methodologies
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Tracey Best
- Job title
- Head of Information & Cyber Security
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07900971218
- Additional information
Glen Foster - Deputy Director
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