Corporate Assurance Manager in Ilkeston

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Information Assurance Manager to join our Corporate and Business Support team. This is an exciting opportunity to lead the implementation, delivery, and continuous improvement of information assurance services across supported organisations within the NHS. The successful post holder will play a pivotal role in ensuring compliance with information governance, cyber security, and assurance requirements, supporting the organisation to maintain the highest standards of information security and regulatory compliance.

Working closely with the Head of Corporate and Business Support, the post holder will provide expert leadership and assurance across a broad range of activities, ensuring the effective management of internal services, third-party contracts, and major ICT programmes and projects. Above all, the role supports the provision of the highest quality patient care through personal commitment, innovation, and continuous improvement. If you are passionate about information assurance, compliance, and supporting safe, secure, and innovative NHS services, we would love to hear from you.

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.

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

• Knowledge
• The ability to work on own initiative.
• Project management skills.
• Must have at least two years in a managerial role in an IT department.
• Understanding of ISO 27001 compliance standard and DSPT implementation.
• Knowledge of GDPR & UK GDPR, Risk assessment processes, Incident management and creation of Root Cause Analysis, Governance security in an IT environment.
• Ability to understand and promote best practice in IT.
• Ability to write and present reports and proposals to senior managers and external agencies.
• Qualifications
• Educated to degree level or equivalent.
• Evidence of continual professional development and learning.
• Exposure to a wide range of ICT systems, applications and infrastructures.
• Experience
• Have managed staff.
• Experience of managing multiple project work streams and working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience of creating and managing policies from creation review of compliance and implementation.
• Previous experience of presenting written reports and communicating verbally to a wide ranging audience.
• Excellent communication skills - written, verbal and interpersonal.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Excellent time-management skills with a pro-active and flexible approach.
• Proven ability to work to tight deadlines and within a customer driven team.
• Ability to communicate with a diverse group of professionals.
• Discretion and diplomacy and the ability to handle sensitive information.
• Able to show initiative and solve problems without constant supervision.
• Excellent planning and organisational abilities.
• Able to plan and prioritise own work.
• Able to work as an individual & as part of a team.
• Self-motivated and the ability to see a job through to completion.
• Able to work under pressure and to deadlines.
• In-depth experience in working in the IT sector.
• In-depth understanding of IT security and standards.
• Good experience of working with the NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit.
• Experience of working with staff at all levels and external clients.
• Good IT skills including keyboard skills and Microsoft Office packages.

Contractual

• The post holder may be required to form part of the on-call management rota.
• Ability to travel in order to deliver training at point of need.
• Driving licence and use of own car.

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: Ilkeston Community Hospital, Heanor Road, Ilkeston, DE7 8LN, United Kingdom