NHS England’s Chief Information Security Office (CISO) Function’s purpose is to enable safe care and build public trust by strengthening the cyber resilience of the NHS. The CISO supports the Technology Digital and Data Directorate’s purpose of delivering the best care and outcomes for patients, and enables faster, safer digital transformation of the NHS.
As part of the CISO function the Security Advisor sits in the Security Assurance Team who provide ongoing assurance that proportionate levels of cyber security are being maintained across the enterprise.
This is an exciting opportunity to support the delivery of cyber resilient services for the NHS. You’ll be given the support and autonomy to use your skills, knowledge, and experience, to make a real impact on improving people’s lives.
As a Security Advisor You Will
- Work within a small team dedicated to the assurance of the NHS England supply chain (Third Party Risk Management) and product assurance. You may also be required to support related priority work areas including insider risk and assurance of NHS England security controls / systems.
- Engage diverse stakeholders across NHS England on continual security assurance activities to drive timely security improvements and resilience.
- Support the development and management of key security assurance metrics to enable evidenced-based decision making.
- Support assurance activities in line with applicable frameworks and legislation such as NCSC CAF, NIS Regulations, GovAssure, HMG Secure by Design, NIST Special Publication 800-53, ISO 27001/2 and the Data Security and Protection Toolkit.
- Collate, analyse and summarise intelligence on security maturity indicators, audit actions and assurance reporting.
- Undertake line management responsibilities as required.
If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.
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