Head of Information Governance, Assurance and

2 weeks ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom Scottish Government Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 275702**Salary**:

- £79,360 - £80,434-
**Job grade**:

- Grade 6- C3**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Other**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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- Edinburgh, Scotland, EH1 3DGAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The Digital Health and Care Directorate sits within Health & Social Care at the Scottish Government. We work to ensure that the health and care needs of the people of Scotland are met, and that they benefit fully from our innovation and digital and data developments, while ensuring that measures are in place to protect the confidentiality and preserve the integrity of personal data. About Us - Digital Healthcare Scotland (digihealthcare.scot)

Digital Health & Care is a wide and varied landscape with many challenges around interoperability of technology and consistent and appropriate decision making around data and security. Our Information Governance and Cyber Security Unit provides cross-cutting expertise and oversight in both the wider governance of information across health and care, and ensuring the technical security of that information through the scrutiny of the Network and Information Systems Component Authority. Cyber Security and Technical Assurance - Digital Healthcare Scotland (digihealthcare.scot)

The National Information Governance strategic direction is delivered through a new and evolving National Information Governance Programme (NIGP) and takes a holistic, strategic approach to IG so that Health and Social Care information is a secure enabler of improvement for citizens.

We work closely with a number of different policy makers, delivery partners, experts and stakeholders from health & care across a number of different topic areas. These include external stakeholders and data protection groups, cyber security leads across the UK, information governance leads across NHS Boards, data protection leads in Local Authorities and across the care sector, advisors for the public and those involved in assurance and compliance.

**Job description**:

- The Head of Information Governance and Cyber Security Strategy is a senior leadership role with strategic and cross-cutting responsibility for four main areas:
- The Digital Health & Care National Information Governance programme of work and the provision of Information Governance ( including data protection ) expertise to policy colleagues and external stakeholders across NHS Boards and social care.
- Working in partnership with the new National Care Service to support them in achieving their aims of an integrated care record and seamless appropriate data sharing.
- Oversight and assurance of cyber security challenges and protective measures across NHS Boards through the work of the new Cyber Centre of Excellence at Dundee University, and the responsibility for carrying out the review and support duties of the National Information Security Competent Authority.
- Responsible for overseeing the Information Governance and security principles and commitments as set out in the Data Strategy and developing new strategic directions that help fulfil the Data Strategy vision by working closely with major stakeholders.
- Part of the Directorate Leadership Group which provides senior leadership to the Directorate, support and expert advice to the Director, works closely with all our Directorate teams and ensures that there is a clear focus on the reputation of ministers.

**Person specification**:
1. Significant information governance and assurance experience in an environment where you have had extensive responsibility for information that is used across multiple environments
2. A solid understanding of cyber security and resilience challenges including the delivery of a cyber security strategy
3. Experience in the development and delivery of an information assurance strategy and how it translates into a programme of work
4. Experience of building senior relationships with multiple and politically visible stakeholders, explaining technical challenges in no-technical language, managing their expectations, and keeping them onside

**Benefits**:

- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

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**Selection process details**:

- To be confirmed
- Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Security**:
- People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.**Nationality requirements**:
This job is broadly open to the following groups:

- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals wor

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