Freedom of Information and Policy Officer

6 months ago

Reading, United Kingdom NHS Professionals Full time

**Job Title**:Freedom of Information and Policy Officer

**Trust Location**:Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

**Location**: Royal Berkshire Hospital, Craven Road, Reading, RG1 5AN

Would you like to be a part of a team that works well together, always there to help each other? If you answered yes, then Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is the place for you.

**About the Trust**

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest general hospital foundation trusts in the country.

We provide acute medical and surgical services to Reading, Wokingham and West Berkshire and specialist services such as cancer, dialysis, and eye surgery to a wider population across Berkshire and its borders.

The Trust is made up of 7 locations with the Royal Berkshire Hospital being the main site.

**What you’ll be responsible for**:

- Co-ordinating the management and response of incoming requests for Information that fall within the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) and Data Protection Acts and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
- Ensuring the Trust remains compliant with national legislation and set deadlines in respect of Freedom of Information requests.
- Providing support to the Corporate Governance Department in the production, collation, and distribution of meeting papers.
- Providing FOI and Policy administrative tasks such as typing reports and maintaining spreadsheets/databases.
- Building and maintaining relationships with key senior members of staff within the Trust, FOI leads and Trust staff in general.
- To administer the Trusts database of policies and procedures, including approval, archiving storage, retention, and publication of formal Trust procedural documents
- Arrange for the efficient uploading of all corporate Trust procedural documents onto the intranet, ensuring that policies can be accessed easily and quickly.
- Collate evidence for the approval of policies and to ensure owners are notified of the need to review existing documents in a timely fashion.

**You’ll learn the following whilst working at the trust**:

- An in depth understanding of the roles and responsibilities involved in working within the NHS.
- Knowledge of the systems used, to effectively complete your role to the highest standard at all times.
- A sense of teamwork, gained through working alongside and supporting colleagues from all levels, within the organisation.

**You’ll have the following skills/experience**:

- Strong admin experience
- Experience in an FOI or similar post.
- Excellent organisational skills
- Excellent IT skills
- Excellent customer service
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent telephone manner
- Microsoft Office package knowledge e.g., Outlook, Word, Excel

**This role may require you to show evidence of vocational level 3 qualification or at least 2 years administration experience.**

**As a member of NHS Professionals, you have fantastic benefits**:

- **Competitive pay rates-** work this week, get paid next week
- **Essential support when you need it
- 24/7 365 days**:

- call us anytime
- **Multi locational**:

- work across neighbouring Trusts
- **Manage your shifts and timesheets on the go**:

- access your “My Bank” shift portal anywhere, anytime online or through your smartphone
- **Varied working options to suit your lifestyle**:

- access to the Bank gives you options of ad hoc shifts or longer-term placements
- **Training and development opportunities**:

- Keep up with the essentials and more
- **Build holiday allowance for every shift you work**:

- your work life balance is important to us
- **Stakeholder pension scheme available**:

- a flexible future for you and yours

**Who are NHS Professionals?**

As an equal opportunities’ organisation, NHSP is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective Bank members and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership. We believe there is a strong case for the Equality, Diversity and inclusion agenda and we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants form a range of backgrounds to apply.

By joining us you can look forward to a choice of flexible Bank shifts across any of our client Trusts in England, as well as the ability to develop professionally and gain experience in several wards or areas.

**Disclaimer**

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**Job Types**: Full-time, Temporary contract

**Salary**: £14.11 per hour

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

- Are you able to reliably commute to London Road, Reading Berkshire, RG1 5AN?

Work Location: In person

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