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The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
About
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Contact
- Address
- Royal Victoria Infirmary
- Queen Victoria Road
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Tyne and Wear
- NE1 4LP
- Contact Number
- 0191 282 0999 option 2
Cyber Security Analyst
Accepting applications until: 02-Aug-2026 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 02-Aug-2026 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- Regent Point
- Tref
- 317 Regent Point
- Cod post
- NE3 3HD
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (from 5th October 2026 to 5th November 2027)
- Oriau
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Cyflog
- £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (Band 6)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- 317 IT - Cyber Security
- Dyddiad y cyfweliad
- 18/08/2026
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.
With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, we’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.
As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
We are looking for a Cyber Security Analyst to join our Cyber Security Team and help protect the digital services that support care across Newcastle Hospitals. This is a varied operational role for someone who enjoys analysing technical issues, improving security controls and working with people across a large and complex NHS organisation.
You will bring practical cyber security experience, broad technical knowledge and a calm, analytical approach to investigating risk and responding to incidents. You will be comfortable working independently, communicating technical issues clearly and helping teams turn security requirements into practical action.
The role offers the opportunity to work across a wide technology estate, contribute to the continued development of the Trust’s cyber security capability and build experience across security monitoring, incident response, vulnerability management, assurance and cyber improvement. If you want a role where your work directly supports the resilience of NHS services, this is an opportunity to make a meaningful contribution.
Fixed Term from 5th October 2026 to 5th November 2027
- Interview Date: 18 & 19 August 2026
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37 hours 30 minutes/week
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
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You will support the day-to-day operation and continuous improvement of the Trust’s cyber security capability.
Key areas of responsibility include:
• Reviewing security alerts, system reports and technical information to identify, assess and escalate potential threats, vulnerabilities and control weaknesses.
• Supporting the investigation and coordination of cyber security incidents, including containment, recovery, documentation and lessons learned.
• Working with technical teams to improve security across endpoints, servers, networks, cloud services and other infrastructure.
• Supporting vulnerability management, security assessments, audit activity and evidence gathering to support regulatory obligations such as NHS DSPT, CAF, Cyber Essentials, and other security frameworks.
• Providing clear cyber security advice and practical support to technical and non-technical colleagues, suppliers and stakeholders.
• Contributing to operational security procedures, policies, reporting and improvement activity.
• Producing and presenting cyber security metrics, trends and risk information to support informed decision-making.
You will need strong analytical, communication and organisational skills, together with the confidence to manage your own workload, work across teams and make sound decisions within established policies and procedures.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
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. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:
- Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
- Freeman Hospital
- Newcastle Dental Hospital
- Cramlington Manor Walks
- Urgent treatment centres
- Newcastle Fertility Centre
- Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
- Northern Genetics Service
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
- Continuously assess and monitor the security of IT infrastructure, including firewalls, network switches, servers, VM environments, client machines and cloud services
- Monitor and respond to systems and infrastructure alerts and scheduled system reports
- Provide technical security support and training to users, this could be educating users on how to spot a phishing email or explaining the importance of using multi factor authentication
- Assist with IT audits
- Investigate and resolve complex information queries and issues such as breaches of security and confidentiality. Implement security controls and respond to security incidents
- To develop, maintain and implement IT Security operational procedures and policies to enable consistent service delivery to all areas of the Trust
- Produce a monthly cyber security report of KPI’s to be made available to the CIO and wider Trust
Important note on completion of reference section of Application Form
All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.
Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Be educated to degree level or have equivalent relevant management and technical experience plus experience in a supervisor or management role.
- A portfolio of practical experience in Cyber Security
Meini prawf dymunol
- A portfolio of practical experience in Cyber Security
- Project management skills
- CISSP or related Certification
Knowledge & Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Broad based technical knowledge covering all aspects of infrastructure from networking, end user devices through to servers and data centres
- Understanding of Information Security principles
- Knowledge of the Data Protection Act
Meini prawf dymunol
- Strong interpersonal and influencing skills
- Strong presentation skills
- Strong analytical skills are required to interpret, analyse and present highly complex multi stranded information of varying quality from a number of diverse sources.
- Experience of producing business cases and executive papers
- Good stakeholder management
- Report writing
Skills & Abilities
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Ability to communicate highly complex issues to a wide range of non-technical end users from multiple backgrounds and organisations, including “difficult” users
- Must have excellent documentation writing skills to create and develop processes and procedures relating to the services delivered by the Infrastructure teams
- Excellent interpersonal skills, building effective professional relationships with end users, departmental system administrators and departmental managers
- Ability to perform as an effective team player, and on own initiative
- Establish and maintain informal internal or external relationships to gain knowledge that can be adopted and adapted to the improvement the IT department
Meini prawf dymunol
- Ability to communicate effectively with 3rd party vendors such as Large Account Resellers (LAR’s), staff and technical staff from other NHS organisations including NHS Digital, NSCS and Information Governance
Values I Behavioural I Attitudes
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Excellent communications skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Excellent decision-making ability
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Alan Richardson
- Teitl y swydd
- Senior Cyber Security Analyst
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 0191 213 8537
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