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About
NHS England’s purpose is to create the conditions for an ambitious and high quality NHS. We empower our people and partners to solve problems, provide outstanding care for every patient and improve the nation's health.
Our 7 regional teams work directly with systems and NHS providers across the country. Each region acts as the interface between national strategy and local delivery, overseeing performance, supporting improvement and enabling transformation at scale.
Cyber Security Advisor (GRC)
Accepting applications until: 24-Nov-2026 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 24-Nov-2026 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- Wellington Place, Leeds / Hexagon House, Exeter / Wellington House, London
- Tref
- Leeds / Exeter / London
- Cod post
- LS1 4AP
- Major / Minor Region
- West Yorkshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 4 months (Secondment only for current NHS Employees. Until 31/03/2027)
- Oriau
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
Salary
- Cyflog
- £59,264 - £67,818 This includes a RRP payment of 20% (Excludes HCAS). Per annum
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- Cyber Operations
Our Organisation
We share the core values set out in the NHS Constitution, which all colleagues are expected to demonstrate.
We support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you and your colleagues. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement, whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern.
As part of our commitment to improving patient safety and maintaining safe and trusted services, all successful candidates will be subject to Baseline Personnel Security Screening (BPSS), which includes a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. By submitting your application, you are confirming your agreement to these checks being undertaken as part of the recruitment process.
Anyone who has received a voluntary or compulsory redundancy payment from NHS England since the start of the 2026/27 financial year is not eligible to apply.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
The post of Security Advisor /Analyst has been awarded a Recruitment and Retention Premia (RRP) in response to current labour market conditions. In recognition of this, the role attracts an additional monthly RRP payment equal to 20% per annum. Please be aware that RRP is non-contractual and subject to review
Please be aware that should you be successful in this position, you will be hired to the job title of Security Advisor /Analyst and this job title is advertised to attract the right skills needed for the role.
Cyber Operations purpose is to support safe care and build public trust by building NHS England’s cyber resilience and enabling the wider health system to be cyber resilient, supporting Transformation Directorate’s purpose of delivering the best care and outcomes for the NHS.
The GRC team, within the CISO Function, plays a critical role by establishing strong governance frameworks, maintaining clear and usable security policies and standards, delivering robust cyber risk management, and providing assurance through compliance, audit, and control effectiveness activities. The team ensures decision makers have clear, evidence based views of security posture and maturity.
As a Cyber Security Advisor in our Security GRC team, you’ll play a key role in protecting what matters most, enabling the organisation to operate securely, confidently, and compliantly in an increasingly complex threat landscape.
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You will
- Work with and support Cyber Security Leads to deliver against the requirements of the NHSE Security Model and Cyber Operations Business Plan, thereby helping to reduce overall security risk to the organisation.
- Engage diverse stakeholders on GRC activities to drive security improvements, acting as a point of contact, ensuring communications are actioned in a timely manner to ensure risks and issues are prioritised and managed accordingly.
- Support the development and management of key security metrics, dashboards and reporting to enable informed, evidenced based decision making.
- Provide support to key system and service development teams to ensure a secure by design and continual assurance approach is maintained.
- Support the creation, development and review cycles of data security related technical and non-technical policies, standards, and implementation guides for systems, solutions and services.
- Supporting cyber security governance and assurance activities, producing meeting papers, tracking actions and decisions, and ensuring effective follow up and reporting to senior stakeholders.
- Undertake research and make use of available information from multiple data streams to support, advise and inform decision making on data security best practice.
- Support the organisation with the provision of security advice and guidance to relevant teams within NHS England assuring cyber resilience.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.
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.
In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.
If you currently work within the NHS and 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 our offices.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
We cannot offer visa sponsorship for external candidates.
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
We are looking for talented security professionals to shape security outcomes, influence decision making, and work at the intersection of technology, risk, and business strategy. You won’t just be writing policies, you’ll be helping people understand risk, make better decisions, and embed security into everyday ways of working. The role ensures that security controls, policies, and processes align with regulatory requirements, recognised standards, and organisational risk appetite, enabling informed decision making and continuous improvement of the security posture.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information about the role and responsibilities.
Please ensure your supporting statement includes demonstratable evidence and specific examples on how you meet the criteria for each of the key skills specified. This will be used in both the shortlisting and interview processes.
Important: Please be aware there are residency requirements you need to meet:
All NHS England Cyber Security personnel must hold Security Clearance level as a minimum. To meet National Security Vetting requirements, SC clearances require 5 years continuous UK residency. In certain cases, this can be reduced to three years continuous UK residency, with additional overseas checks for the previous two years. Candidates who were posted abroad for service with HM Government, Armed Forces or within a UK government role - will still be considered.
Please make sure you meet these requirements before applying for this role. You don’t need to have SC already, however, failure to achieve the requirements for SC after offer will result in the job offer being withdrawn.
For further advice please check: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels/national-security-vetting-clearance-levels#security-check-sc
Please be aware that should you be successful in this position, you will be hired to the job title of Security Advisor/Analyst and this job title is advertised to attract the right skills needed for the role.
Secondments
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.
Please note that the reason for the fixed term of this contract is because to cover maternity leave.
You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Knowledge
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Demonstrable knowledge of the processes, tools and techniques of information security management, ability to deploy and monitor information security systems, as well as detect, resolve and prevent violations of IT security, to protect organisational data.
- Proven knowledge of IT security policies, standards, and procedures; ability to utilise a variety of administrative skill sets and technical knowledge to ensure cyber security compliance.
- Basic knowledge of and the ability to protect information and information systems while ensuring their confidentiality, integrity and availability.
- Proven knowledge of tools, techniques, approaches and processes of cybersecurity risk management; ability to ensure organisational network operation and minimise negative effect by cybersecurity risks.
- Proven knowledge of and ability to protect an organisation's data to ensure privacy during the process of storage and communication.
Qualifications & Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Post-graduate level degree in Cyber Security, or relevant subject, or equivalent level of experience
- Evidence of continuous professional development.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- David Malkin
- Teitl y swydd
- Security Principal
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
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