Senior Information Governance Officer

1 week ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The Senior Information Governance (IG) Officer will manage the IG Support Officer and be responsible for handling police requests, ensuring that each request is acknowledged and responded to in a timely manner.

The post-holder will be responsible for the co-ordination of all relevant policies and procedures and for recommending changes to ensure the maintenance of compliance with Data Protection legislation across KCH.

To use their specialist knowledge to provide advice and training around IG, including FOI, DP, information rights and confidentiality.

To make recommendations for the provision of clear and accessible guidance to all staff groups, to ensure the organisation meets both its statutory and legal obligations.

To take a solution focused approach to IG encouraging a culture of identifying opportunities and designing systems and services in a way that complies with Data Protection legislation, ensuring that the implementation of the service is achieved in a practical and supportive way and that IG is not perceived as an obstacle or blocker.

General

  • The post holder has a general duty of care for their own health, safety and wellbeing and that of work colleagues, visitors and patients within the hospital, in addition to any specific risk management or clinical governance accountabilities associated with this post.
  • To observe the rules, policies, procedures and standards of King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust together with all relevant statutory and professional obligations.
  • We want to be an organisation where everyone shares a commitment to delivering the very best care and feels like their contribution is valuable and valued.
  • To observe and maintain strict confidentiality of personal information relating to patients and staff.
  • To be responsible, with management support, for their own personal development and to actively contribute to the development of colleagues.


King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London.

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.

King's is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan.

In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus.

Everyone's contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust's carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.

General Information Governance (IG)

  • Act as the first point of contact for IG and Information enquiries, some of which will be of a confidential nature, referring enquirers onward where appropriate.
  • Provide guidance and advice to Trust teams and senior management on a wide range of complex IG and escalate as required to enhance service delivery and patient care.
  • Assist with and coordinate the production, collation and systematic returns and recording of evidence to support compliance with the Data Security & Protection Toolkit.
  • Support key investigations into reported IG related incidents creating reports for the IGSG as required. This will include evaluation of reported incidents and assisting with the gathering of relevant information as part of investigations and presenting that information in written reports.
  • Promote and raise staff awareness of IG by working with other team members to plan, organise and deliver training programmes to staff at all levels of the organisation. This may include staff induction, mandatory training including face to face and elearning and ad hoc training.
  • Create and maintain dashboards and performance reports against key performance indicators evidencing IG compliance and progress, and highlighting issues to the IG Manager.
  • Ensuring policies, procedures and learning materials are updated and maintained.
  • Managing the Trust's data sharing register and following up with Trust leads where expired agreements are in place so as to ensure documentation is regularly updated.
  • Plan, coordinate, and conduct IG audits (spot checks) of clinical and corporate departments for all Trust sites, and provide written feedback detailing any issues found and

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