The ideal candidate will be an enthusiastic and innovative privacy and risk practitioner knowledgeable in patient confidentiality, data security, and health informatics. Responsibilities will also include managing incidents related to information governance, supporting collaborative initiatives, and acting as a deputy for senior governance leads. The Trust is committed to staff development, providing career pathways, ongoing training, and opportunities to progress within various specialties. Candidates with lived experience of mental health challenges are strongly encouraged to apply, as the Trust values this perspective in enhancing its services.
The key objective of this role is to provide data security assurance by undertaking Data Protection Impact Assessment and assurance for existing and upcoming service, application, system developments across the Trust and in key partnerships. The post holder will be responsible for the Trust's compliance with privacy and data protection principles and champion patient and public privacy across the organisation with an enabling and supportive approach.
The post holder will be an enthusiastic data privacy and risk practitioner, self-motivated, innovative professional with good understanding of patient confidentiality, privacy, data security, social media and digital health applications in health and social care services with a satisfactory track record of monitoring compliance with the Data Protection and health and social care information governance standards.
The post holder will be expected to assess current and upcoming developments, including service designs, technical and innovative digital developments and applications for privacy impact and compliance with national information governance standards.
Career
We are committed to get the very best out of our staff and support staff in their career aspirations. We have career pathways available, where you will be able to develop your skills and build on your experience to progress into other roles across different specialties. In addition, we offer ongoing training and development in conjunction with the BCS membership.
- Lead a privacy by design approach by assessing and managing privacy design, impact and outcome of existing and upcoming service, application, system developments across the Trust and in key partnerships.
- Develop, implement and monitor data processing agreements, data sharing agreements; data transfer agreements and non-disclosure agreements.
- Manage the Information Security Committee to include management of action plan
- Co-ordinate, negotiate and influence design of existing and upcoming service, applications, system developments across the Trust and in key partnerships to enhance privacy
- Develop, design, co-ordinate dissemination of privacy notices that are clear, concise and in line with Data Protection Principles
- Manage Data Protection impact assessments ensuring delivery of the agreed actions through liaison with the stakeholders in order to provide the Trust via the Head of Information Governance and the CDIO adequate privacy assurance.
- Undertaking assurance and compliance work to support GDE projects.
- Support the Head of IG in collaborative work with the SLP and the STPs
- Ensure monitoring and review of IG Policies
- Manage Incident process, including monitoring Datix, giving advice and escalating serious incidents to the IG Operations Lead
About us
- Lead a privacy by design approach by assessing and managing privacy design, impact and outcome of existing and upcoming service, application, system developments across the Trust and in key partnerships.
- Develop, implement and monitor data processing agreements, data sharing agreements; data transfer agreements and non-disclosure agreements.
- Manage the Information Security Committee to include management of action plan
- Co-ordinate, negotiate and influence design of existing and upcoming service, applications, system developments across the Trust and in key partnerships to enhance privacy
- Develop, design, co-ordinate dissemination of privacy notices that are clear, concise and in line with Data Protection Principles
- Manage Data Protection impact assessments ensuring delivery of the agreed actions through liaison with the stakeholders in order to provide the Trust via the Head of Information Governance and the CDIO adequate privacy assurance.
- Undertaking assurance and compliance work to support GDE projects.
- Support the Head of IG in collaborative work with the SLP and the STPs
- Ensure monitoring and review of IG Policies
- Manage Incident process, including monitoring Datix, giving advice and escalating serious incidents to the IG Operations Lead
- Support the Head of Information Governance and the IG Operations Lead in the development, delivery and management of the Trusts IG function with a vision to empower service users, support clinicians, enable research, improve productivity and support organisational performance.
- Support the Head of Information Governance, the Caldicott Guardian and the Chief Digital Information Officer/SIRO for the successful delivery of the Information Governance Action Plan
- Provide a deputy function to cover the responsibilities of the Information Governance Privacy and Risk and IG Operations Leads and when required.
- The Trust encourages and welcomes applications from people with lived experience of mental health challenges. We see this as valuable and recognise the positive impact this experience can have on the work we do.
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