Cyber Security Analyst
Job summary
We are looking for a Cyber Security Analyst to join our Cyber Security Team and help protect the digital services that support care across Newcastle Hospitals. This is a varied operational role for someone who enjoys analysing technical issues, improving security controls and working with people across a large and complex NHS organisation.
You will bring practical cyber security experience, broad technical knowledge and a calm, analytical approach to investigating risk and responding to incidents. You will be comfortable working independently, communicating technical issues clearly and helping teams turn security requirements into practical action.
The role offers the opportunity to work across a wide technology estate, contribute to the continued development of the Trust's cyber security capability and build experience across security monitoring, incident response, vulnerability management, assurance and cyber improvement. If you want a role where your work directly supports the resilience of NHS services, this is an opportunity to make a meaningful contribution.
Fixed Term from 5th October 2026 to 5th November 2027
- Interview Date: 18 & 19 August 2026
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37 hours 30 minutes/week
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
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Main duties of the job
You will support the day-to-day operation and continuous improvement of the Trust's cyber security capability.
Key areas of responsibility include:
o Reviewing security alerts, system reports and technical information to identify, assess and escalate potential threats, vulnerabilities and control weaknesses.
o Supporting the investigation and coordination of cyber security incidents, including containment, recovery, documentation and lessons learned.
o Working with technical teams to improve security across endpoints, servers, networks, cloud services and other infrastructure.
o Supporting vulnerability management, security assessments, audit activity and evidence gathering to support regulatory obligations such as NHS DSPT, CAF, Cyber Essentials, and other security frameworks.
o Providing clear cyber security advice and practical support to technical and non-technical colleagues, suppliers and stakeholders.
o Contributing to operational security procedures, policies, reporting and improvement activity.
o Producing and presenting cyber security metrics, trends and risk information to support informed decision-making.
You will need strong analytical, communication and organisational skills, together with the confidence to manage your own workload, work across teams and make sound decisions within established policies and procedures.
About us
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:
- Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
- Freeman Hospital
- Newcastle Dental Hospital
- Cramlington Manor Walks
- Urgent treatment centres
- Newcastle Fertility Centre
- Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
- Northern Genetics Service
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Continuously assess and monitor the security of IT infrastructure, including firewalls, network switches, servers, VM environments, client machines and cloud services
- Monitor and respond to systems and infrastructure alerts and scheduled system reports
- Provide technical security support and training to users, this could be educating users on how to spot a phishing email or explaining the importance of using multi factor authentication
- Assist with IT audits
- Investigate and resolve complex information queries and issues such as breaches of security and confidentiality. Implement security controls and respond to security incidents
- To develop, maintain and implement IT Security operational procedures and policies to enable consistent service delivery to all areas of the Trust
- Produce a monthly cyber security report of KPIs to be made available to the CIO and wider Trust
Person Specification
Qualifications & Education
- Be educated to degree level or have equivalent relevant management and technical experience plus experience in a supervisor or management role.
- A portfolio of practical experience in Cyber Security
- A portfolio of practical experience in Cyber Security
- Project management skills
- CISSP or related Certification
Knowledge & Experience
- Broad based technical knowledge covering all aspects of infrastructure from networking, end user devices through to servers and data centres
- Understanding of Information Security principles
- Knowledge of the Data Protection Act
- Strong interpersonal and influencing skills
- Strong presentation skills
- Strong analytical skills are required to interpret, analyse and present highly complex multi stranded information of varying quality from a number of diverse sources.
- Experience of producing business cases and executive papers
- Good stakeholder management
- Report writing
Skills & Abilities
- 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 Infrastructure teams
- 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
- Establish and maintain informal internal or external relationships to gain knowledge that can be adopted and adapted to the improvement the IT department
- Ability to communicate effectively with 3rd party vendors such as Large Account Resellers (LAR's), staff and technical staff from other NHS organisations including NHS Digital, NSCS and Information Governance
Values I Behavioural I Attitudes
- Excellent communications skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Excellent decision-making ability
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
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Regent Point
317 Regent Point
NE3 3HD
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://careers.nuth.nhs.uk/why-us