Senior Information Security Practitioner

Job description

Job responsibilities

Leadership Provide leadership and direction to the information security and business continuity service, including wider directorate and business teams Mentor and coach others, helping to develop our long-term capability including identify capability gaps and solutions Contribute to the development of long-term strategic plans for information security and business continuity, identifying risks and issues and developing mitigation strategies with clear outcome measures.Communicating between the technical and non-technical Identify the needs of business and technical stakeholders. Effectively manage stakeholder expectations. Demonstrate excellent communication skills and can manage difficult conversations or negotiations, including highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information. Represent information security and business continuity on various internal and external groups.Data protection and freedom of information Support information gathering and creating supporting narrative / recommendations for complex data protection and freedom of information requests. Conduct information system searches and investigations that are highly complex / sensitive in nature, to meet data protection or freedom of information needs. Provide advice and expert knowledge to projects / programmes / operational services to ensure that information systems are designed to meet data protection requirements.Financial management Understand how to balance cost versus value. Consider the impact of user needs. Contribute and develop economic investment cases for information security including financial models for implementation, and running of servicesGovernance and assurance Evolve and define governance. Take responsibility for working with and supporting other staff in wider governance. Assure services across sets of services. Use tools such as standards, guardrails, and principles to effectively govern delivery.Information Security and Business Continuity Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of information security and business continuity, including analysing + testing Trust-wide capabilities and identifying improvement areas. Ensure that our security posture is maintained, monitored/measured and be responsible for leading interventions where standards are not met (example: security patching). Develop, maintain, and improve our data and technology Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Plans, enabling us to respond to and recover from business continuity events ensuring we can provide a safe level of service to the public during the event, and ensuring we can manage the recovery process and incorporating learning. Lead vulnerability audits, security & penetration tests, forensic audits, or related investigations ensuring all findings are evaluated, and where appropriate, fed into continuous service improvement activities to continuously improve our security posture and resilience. Responsible for ensuring standards around information security and business continuity are embedded into service design. Provide subject matter expertise in major incidents, cyber security incident and/or events caused by or affecting information security. Act as the Problem Owner for highly complex, or sensitive information security matters (from identification through to resolution). Undertake Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) and Information Security Assessment (ISA) activities, including supply chain / 3rd party assessments, aligned with projects / operational services. Maintain and improve the Information Security Assessment lifecycle, and Information Risk Management documentation for IT systems and data. Ensure that access to Trust systems is appropriately managed, regularly audited, and lead investigations as required. Provide expert advice on information transfer agreements with partner organisations in support of the Information Governance function. Partner with the Organisational Development and Information Governance teams and support the delivery of information security awareness and training.Making and informing risk-based decisions Make decisions characterised by managed levels of risk and complexity and recommend decisions as risk and complexity increase. Resolve disputes between wider peers and indirect stakeholders, considering all views and opinions.Policies, procedures, and processes Develop, maintain, and improve all directorate information security and business continuity policies & procedures, considering regional and national policies and practices, ensuring that both manual and electronic information across the Trust is included in-scope. Including, but not limited to DSPT, NIS, ISO / IEC series standards, cyber essentials, etc.Risk management Conduct information security risk assessments and control selection activities. Responsible for the management of information security and business continuity risks (for technology and data), including identifying new risks and ensure we are actively managing risk controls (for your portfolio that you are leading on).Service focus, monitoring, and reporting See the bigger picture and investigate how to get the best out of the underlying services to support the organisations strategic objectives and business priorities. Take complex reporting data from multiple sources, compare, and interpret against service baseline and industry standards and provide a supporting narrative. Responsible for service reporting for information security and business continuity, in-line with Trust-agreed reporting measures (example: security dashboard, security operations centre performance, etc). Ensure we comply with external reporting for information security and business continuity (example: NHS Cyber Alerts).Strategy Apply strategy, using and challenging patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps, and vision statements. You can provide guidance. Evaluate current information security and business continuity strategies to ensure business requirements are being met and exceeded where possible Responsible for managing and updating underpinning / enabling information security strategies that support the business objectives Ensure alignment of operating procedures and policies in-line with national, sector (ICS) and industry best practice where it makes sense to do so.Understanding the whole context Understand trends and practices outside your team and how these will impact your work. See how your work fits into the broader strategy and historical context. Consider the patterns and interactions on a larger scale.User focus Explain the difference between user needs and the desires of the user. Champion user research to focus on all users. Prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so. Offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use.Community of practice Develop and maintain a network of professionals to enable continuous learning and a community which can share, learn, and keep up to date on the information security and business continuity landscape, within the wider Digital, Data and Technology teams. Other Duties: Deputise for the Head of Information Security & Business Continuity as required. Occasional work may be required outside of core business hours to support major projects / programmes. All other reasonable requests

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• Masters degree, or equivalent relevant experience
• Relevant management / leadership qualification or equivalent experience to masters level
• Relevant information security qualification or equivalent experience (example: CISM, CISSP, or plan to obtain within 12 months)
• Service management qualification or equivalent experience (example: ITIL)

Desirable

• Delivery management qualification or equivalent experience (Agile, PRINCE2, etc)

Experience

Essential

• Experience in delivering and developing information security and business continuity services, in highly complex and regulated environments
• Experience of developing and implementing organisation-wide information security and business continuity related strategies, policies, and procedures
• Experience of solving complex business problems for users using technology - balancing usability with security
• Experience of supporting the transition of products from Delivery into Live Service
• Experience of working with conflicting, highly complex, and/or highly sensitive information
• Experience in managing critical incidents, and problem investigation + resolution (including managing security incident response, and information security breaches)
• Experience of contributing to, and developing enabling strategies (example: information security)
• Coaching, mentoring and supervision of others
• Management of financial budgets for a service (pay, on-call, consumables, relevant 3rd party provision contracts) and developing investment cases

Desirable

• Experience in conducting or managing information security audits, penetration testing, table-top / simulation exercises, and incident investigations
• Experience of management products / services in healthcare (NHS)

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Deal with complex business problems and translate into information security and business continuity requirements and solutions
• Strong domain knowledge in at least two of the following areas, and the ability to acquire an adequate understanding of the other areas: oEnterprise Architecture oHMG Secure Policy Framework (SPF) and Information Assurance Maturity Model (IAMM) oISO27001 oRisk assessment and management oData security and protection toolkit (DSPT)
• Broad knowledge of enterprise technology and data solution(s) and how information security and business continuity should be considered
• Identify training needs to build and sustain information security and business continuity capability
• Prioritisation of work - within the team and across the wider Digital, Data and Technology teams
• Meet set targets or metrics for service
• Autonomous working and can delegate appropriately
• Good communication skills - tailoring your message for your audience, providing, and receiving highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information, able to communicate complex technical information in a simple way to stakeholders
• Present complex, sensitive, and contentious information to large groups
• Strong domain knowledge and ability to keep ahead of information security and business continuity initiatives
• Design and develop our information security and business continuity tools and processes
• Systematic and methodical approach to problem solving

Personal qualities

Essential

• Relentless focus on user needs and experience
• Problem-solving mindset - focusing on improving outcomes
• Seeing the bigger picture - understand how your work and the work of your team supports wider objectives and meets the diverse needs of stakeholders
• Able to work well within a busy environment

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

162 City Road

London

EC1V 2PD

Employer's website

https://www.moorfields.nhs.uk/work-for-us (Opens in a new tab)