Senior Information Rights Officer

The post holder will work closely with the Information Rights Lead in the delivery of full accountability to the public for the exercise of UKHSAs functions. It is essential that members of the public have confidence in the health and social care system. UKHSAs Public Accountability team works to secure the trust and confidence of the public and ensure that the service we provide are consistent and seamless. The postholder will be required to: Co-ordinate UKHSAs responses to FOIA and other statutory information access requests to UKHSA with consistent and cleared responses and act as liaison point for any further clarification or queries.
Assist the Information Rights Lead & Head of Public Accountability to ensure that UKHSA complies with the requirements under FOIA, the Data Protection Act and other statutory information access schemes, ensuring responses comply with the relevant legislation. Provide expert guidance and support for challenging cases and where escalation is required for more complex cases. Ensure there is a centralised service for the sensitive handling of material and correspondence from the Coroners Office. Develop the team and individuals, build capability and flexibility to support UKHSA as a whole Act as one of the primary points of contact for public accountability activity and respond to queries and issues raised from both staff and members of the public including lawyers and journalists.
Quality assure and consistency check contributions including review of corporate lines received from contributors across UKHSA to ensure up to date lines on key topics feature in responses. Provide briefings to Chief Executive Office, Directors and staff across UKHSA on a wide range of UKHSAs issues raised under FOIA, Data Protection Act and other statutory information access schemes. Engage across the organisation and externally with other Government departments such as the Department of Health and Social Care and the Information Commissioners Office. The post holder will work closely with the Information Rights Lead in the delivery of full accountability to the public for the exercise of UKHSAs functions.
It is essential that members of the public have confidence in the health and social care system. UKHSAs Public Accountability team works to secure the trust and confidence of the public and ensure that the service we provide are consistent and seamless. The postholder will be required to: Co-ordinate UKHSAs responses to FOIA and other statutory information access requests to UKHSA with consistent and cleared responses and act as liaison point for any further clarification or queries. Assist the Information Rights Lead & Head of Public Accountability to ensure that UKHSA complies with the requirements under FOIA, the Data Protection Act and other statutory information access schemes, ensuring responses comply with the relevant legislation.
Provide expert guidance and support for challenging cases and where escalation is required for more complex cases. Ensure there is a centralised service for the sensitive handling of material and correspondence from the Coroners Office. Develop the team and individuals, build capability and flexibility to support UKHSA as a whole Act as one of the primary points of contact for public accountability activity and respond to queries and issues raised from both staff and members of the public including lawyers and journalists. Quality assure and consistency check contributions including review of corporate lines received from contributors across UKHSA to ensure up to date lines on key topics feature in responses.
Provide briefings to Chief Executive Office, Directors and staff across UKHSA on a wide range of UKHSAs issues raised under FOIA, Data Protection Act and other statutory information access schemes. Engage across the organisation and externally with other Government departments such as the Department of Health and Social Care and the Information Commissioners Office. The postholder will have regular contact with staff at all levels in UKHSA and to support delivery against targets, will also need to establish and maintain efficient and effective working relationships with members of the public, health care professionals and across government departments. In ensuring that UKHSA's responses are timely and accurate, the postholder will work with the organisation's scientists, clinicians and technical staff and will be able to take complex scientific and technical information and be able to adapt it for a wide range of audiences.
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