Cyber Security Lead

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NHS England's Cyber Operations team is at the forefront of safeguarding critical national healthcare services and ensuring patient safety through robust cyber resilience. The Cyber Security Lead role is a key part of the Security Consulting Team, operating within the Chief Information Security Office (CISO) function. This team provides specialist consultancy across NHS England, ensuring national services and Critical National Infrastructure are secure by design.

You will play a pivotal role in developing and implementing cyber-resilient architectures, providing advice and ensuring systems meet security standards. Acting as an advisor to project teams, you will embed secure practices into systems before they become live services, safeguarding data and operations across the NHS.

This role offers opportunities to address challenges of national scale, contribute to improving healthcare outcomes and enhance NHS cyber resilience. As part of a supportive and innovative environment, you will benefit from access to professional development, collaborative initiatives, and impactful work that directly supports patient care.

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As a Cyber Security Lead, your responsibilities include:

• Provide expert consultancy and guidance to ensure secure system design, governance, and compliance with frameworks like NIST Special Publications, ISO 27001/2/3, and NCSC guidelines.
• Set and embed security standards and patterns, aligned with best practices, to strengthen NHS England's cyber resilience.
• Lead threat modelling, security assessments, and risk mitigation efforts, delivering actionable advice to address identified vulnerabilities.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and teams to address challenges via DevSecOps practices, security reviews, and comprehensive risk analysis.
• Drive the development and implementation of NHS England's integrated cyber security strategy, defining objectives and addressing technical controls, risks, and issues.
• Act as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert, representing Cyber Operations at governance forums and during project lifecycles.
• Scope and review security testing reports, vulnerability assessments, and compliance audits to ensure robust application and endpoint security.
• Provide architecture modelling expertise to design and implement resilient, secure systems and services across NHS England.
• Support systems and services throughout their lifecycle, ensuring secure practices are maintained to minimise risks.
• Engage in continuous professional development, adopting and promoting industry best practices to enhance organisational cyber security resilience.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms — enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.

We lead the NHS in England by:

• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where people can develop and make a difference
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money

Earlier this year, the Government announced that NHS England will gradually merge with the Department of Health and Social Care, to create a smaller, more strategic centre that reduces duplication and waste.

If successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.