ICT Head of Cyber Security

Employer King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Denmark Hill Town London Salary £75,328 - £86,114 per annum, including high cost allowance Salary period Yearly Closing 18/06/:59

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.8 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King's College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.

We encourage all our staff to have a healthy work/life balance. In doing so, you can apply for flexible working from the beginning of your employment. We offer a range of options which are designed to suit different circumstances and priorities in line with service requirements.

Main duties of the job

• Lead strategic planning for current and future IT security solutions, aligning with best practice and emerging technologies
• Collaborate with teams to ensure compliance with security standards
• Lead on internal and external audits and audit preparation relating to IT security
• Maintain compliance with standards including DSPT, CareCERT, Cyber Essentials+, NIS, and ISO 27001
• Act as the Trusts advisor on cyber security protection, detection, response and recovery
• Develop and advise on implementing policies, procedures, and guidance for cyber and IT security systems and processes
• Advise ICT senior leaders to shape a robust IT security service across the department and its systems
• Monitor incidents and take appropriate actions to correct, notify and prevent reoccurrence
• Work with the Technical teams to maintain all security tools and technology used in the department
• Work with technical teams to deliver and manage cyber security and compliance across internal and externally hosted systems
• Undertake scoping and delivery of penetration tests and ensure actions are resolved
• Supporting wider IT functions in the evaluation and implementation of new technology and controls
• Defining and documenting a security incident response program
• Respond to High priority NHS Digital Care Cert alerts in line with NHS Digital requirements
• Produce a monthly cyber security KPI report for the Trust Information Governance Committee and ICT senior leaders

Working for our organisation The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person centred, digitally enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King's to another level.

We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities Policy and Service Development

• Maintain, update and implement Trust policies in scope of the ICT department covering all aspects of information security and Cyber activities.
• Draft, develop, implement and maintain a portfolio of policies relating to all aspects of Cyber Security within ICT.
• Ensure compliance with Trust policy and procedures are fully supported in forums such as the Trust unsupported systems group, the Trust ATP management group, patch management groups and any other future forums.
• Provide expertise around Cyber Security for the purchase of new systems and applications via the Trust ICT PMO processes and procurement. Ensure all new systems and applications to be deployed across the estate have a full security review and sign off before proceeding to go live.
• Carry out Continual Service Improvement (CSI) of existing Trust processes and procedures
• Identify, propose and implement any changes to practices, procedures required in departmental and user environment to improve service levels.
• Ensuring that all cyber security risks are updated and managed via the Trust risk and issues process
• Manage the Change Control process withing the ICT department

Financial and Physical Resources

• Revenue and staffing budget holder for IT Security, including procurement of physical assets or supplies and capital expenditure.
• Advise departments on the security of IT equipment.
• Monitor and advice on software licence compliance in association with the Software Asset Manager.
• Advice and guidance on the purchase of IT security equipment.
• Exercise duty of care when using Trust equipment i.e. computers and software.
• Advise ICT senior leaders group on the most cost effective method for maintaining the integrity and security of data and equipment.

Research and Development

• Regularly researches into security developments and requirements, linking into national forums and support from the National Cyber security Centre.
• Regularly researches Virus and security alerts provided by NHS information security service.
• Keeping up to date with developments in IT Infrastructure and related technologies.
• Contribute to the ICT Cyber security approach and strategy.
• To undertake surveys and compliance audits determined by legislation and national guidelines, using both on line and developed information systems when necessary, to ascertain scores against the standards.

Staff Management

• Line management of the technical staff within the cyber security team. Participate in regular performance appraisal meetings and ensure each member of the team has a clear set of objectives and development plans.
• Ensuring performance issues are dealt with in an appropriate and timely manner and follow the Trust's Disciplinary or Performance Procedures where formal action is necessary.
• Ensuring that working practice complies with the Trust's policies and procedures for Data Protection, Confidentiality and Health and Safety ensuring the environment in which you and your staff work is safe, clean and tidy
• Observing and continually promoting equal opportunities in compliance with the Trust's policies and values.
• Developing team morale and motivation through effective personal leadership, ensuring views and decisions are communicated both up and down the management structure.

Communication

• 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 cyber security team.
• Ability to communicate effectively with 3rd party vendors around the Trust cyber security requirements.
• 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
• Providing training to groups (large and small) and provides ad hoc advice to other support staff
• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written, are essential with the post holder expected to liaise with individuals at all levels of the Trust, Board level to lower grade staff
• Provide expert advice to line manager on all matters relating to cyber security impact.

Project Management

• Apply industry standard project management approaches to the implementation of all cyber security deployment work with the Trust projects and programme team.
• Together with Trust teams to ensure a programme to deliver inductions messages to ensure that core training on statutory subjects meet the needs of the information security and cyber security requirements.
• Planning and management of a range of cyber security groups and forums such as the ATP group, unsupported systems group, ICT security reviews group and patch management group.
• Planning and management of the Trust Cyber security risk register as part of the wider ICT risks and their link to the Trust risks.
• To maintain the agreed work program with the team and ensuring through time management and objective setting that targets are achieved.

People Management and Performance

• Lead, coach and manage the performance of the team in line with good people management practices. Ensuring excellence is recognised and underperformance is addressed.
• Participate in regular performance appraisal meetings and ensure each member of the team has a clear set of objectives and development plans.
• Ensure the team is compliance with all statutory, mandatory training together with any professional training requirements, ensuring they are up to date and fully compliant.
• Manage team absences including sickness in line with Trust policy ensuring the appropriate return to work meetings occur, e roster is updated and productivity is at keep to the highest possible level.
• Identify and fill any vacancies that arise within the team in line with the Trust's recruitment policy and process. . click apply for full job details