Primary Care Support & Information Governance Assurance Lead
Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity within the Clinical Directorate, Information Governance team for an experienced Information Governance professional to join us in the role of Primary Care Support & IG Assurance Lead to cover maternity leave, on a fixed term or secondment basis until June 2025.
The key objective of this role is to provide support to the Primary Care Support and Information Governance Assurance Manager/ DPO Service Manager, ensuring the continued implementation, assurance of a number of Primary Care, Information Governance work programmes and supporting the developments of the Welsh Information Governance Toolkit.
The role will require knowledge of Information Governance, Data Protection and Confidentiality.
You will be required to hold a relevant degree or have experience in an Information Governance role with experience in information governance work programs.
Ideally holding a recognised qualification in Data Protection.
This rolecan be based at any of our DHCW Offices.
Part-time, job share and/or flexible working (including home working) options are also available.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Main duties of the job
The ideal candidates must have a flexible approach to working, along with excellent communication and organisational skills, in order to support the development of a robust information governance framework and provide ongoing support, advice and guidance to programs in all matters of data protection and information governance.
They will be responsible on a data to day basis for information governance work for primary care service and Welsh IG Toolkit work programs, providing Information governance expertise, identifying best practice and making recommendations.
The postholder must have information governance skills and knowledge. Experience of working in health and/or social care is desirable but not essential for this role.
Due to geography and spread of the service you will be required to have a flexible approach to work and be able to travel on occasion to various sites across Wales as required; this may require overnight stays.
About us
Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) is part of the NHS Wales family and has an important role in changing the way health and care services are delivered through technology and data. The organisation supports frontline staff with modern systems and access to important information about their patients, while empowering the people of Wales to manage their own health through digital NHS Wales services.
Working for DHCW offers lots of employee benefits, including flexible working, a competitive salary, 28 days of annual leave plus Bank Holidays and opportunities for career development. We are committed to recognising and celebrating our staff as the most valuable part of our organisation.
Join our game changing, life-saving team and start making a real difference to health and care services in Wales.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Providing specialist Information Governance advice and guidance to Primary Care projects and supporting the ongoing development and deployment of the Welsh IG Toolkit.
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac
Person Specification
Qualifications and/or Knowledge
- Relevant degree or equivalent experience
- Have or be working to information law professional qualifications such as British Computer Society (BCS) suite of Information related certificates
- Registered with a relevant informatics professional body, for example, BCS
- Evidence of ongoing professional development in related fields
Experience
- Experience of producing high quality information for an internal and external audience
- Experience of working on projects that support better IG practice and highlight successes
- Understanding of confidentiality based on UK data protection/UKGDPR and Caldicott principles
- Knowledge and experience of using technical language and terminology
- Experience of developing procedures and guidance documents, and updating information resources on an All-Wales basis
- Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills when dealing with highly complex and sensitive information to and from a wide range of stakeholders
- Experience or prioritising work to meet deadlines in a highly pressured environment.
- Experience of working across organisational and professional boundaries in a complex organisation
Skills and Attributes
- Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills when dealing with a wide range of stakeholders
- Be able to effectively convey complex information in reports, presentations or responding to queries
- Be able to demonstrate attention to detail and be able to produce work of high standard
- Excellent planning skills
- Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships across multi-functional teams and organisational boundaries
- Excellent organisations skills.
- Able to manage complex workloads, multi-task in complex and sensitive environments
- Be able to demonstrate excellent IT skills, including MS Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and web-based systems
- Welsh Language Skills are desirable levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh.
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
Employer details
Employer name
Digital Health and Care Wales
Address
Hybrid working
Location to be confirmed at interview
CF11 9AD
https://nwis.nhs.wales/
- Company
- Digital Health and Care Wales
- Location
- Location to be confirmed at interview, United Kingdom CF11 9AD
Hybrid / WFH Options - Employment Type
- Fixed-Term
- Salary
- £35922.00 - £43257.00 a year
- Posted
- Company
- Digital Health and Care Wales
- Location
- Location to be confirmed at interview, United Kingdom CF11 9AD
Hybrid / WFH Options - Employment Type
- Fixed-Term
- Salary
- £35922.00 - £43257.00 a year
- Posted